Causal Judgment
Currently, my main interest is in answering how people determine the cause(s) of events in their lives. Psychologists and philosophers have long thought that people make causal judgments by thinking about about what wou...
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research
Category Learning & Memory
Along with collaborators in the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, this line of research investigates how past experiences with categories can affect memory for items in that categ...
Mind Wandering
In collaborations with Dr. Paul Seli and Dr. Kristina Krasich, I have also studied our unending habit of mind-wandering. While cognitive scientists would like to pretend that people are faithfully attending to their ass...
teaching
Guest Lecturer: RPI
While I was an undergrad at RPI, I had the opportunity to guest lecture for a couple sessions of the courses Introduction to Logic and Are Humans Rational? taught by my advisor, Selmer Bringsjord. In t...
TA: Neuromatch Academy
In the summer of 2020 I was a teaching assistant for Pod 089 Solid Firefly in the first session of Neuromatch Academy! Over three weeks I guided my 9 stud...
TA: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
During the Fall 2020 semster at Duke I was a graduate teaching assistant for Dr. Ruth Day’s online course PSY 102: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. In addition to grading and leading discussion sections, I also he...
TA: Quantitative Research Methods & Statistics
In Spring 2021 I was a graduate teaching assistant for Dr. Angela Vieth’s course PSY 204L: Quantitative Research Methods & Statistics for Psychological Science. As the title suggests, we focused on building a strong...
TA: Psychology of Imagination
For my last teaching assistantship at Duke, I had the opportunity of TAing a seminar course entitled Psychology of Imagination taught by Dr. Tamar Kushnir. Every week, we read a few p...
Guest Lecturer: Cognitive Neuroscience Research Internship
Over the past year, I have served as a guest lecturer for the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Internship, which is a semester-long research internship aim...