Overview

Broadly, my research combines social and cognitive psychological methods to investigate how people try to assess and improve the performance of themselves and others, and why those efforts often go astray. I use behavioral laboratory experiments, field studies, and formal computational models to study this topic through several interconnected research questions, including why people often take over tasks when they shouldn’t, why top performers don’t always give better advice, and why performance evaluations can get less accurate as poor performance becomes rare. You can read more at my website.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Harvard Psychology Department (where I received my PhD) and at Harvard Business School, working primarily with Daniel Gilbert, Michael Norton, and Ting Zhang.

Brown Affiliations

• Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
• The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship

Research Areas

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