Metacognition
In my postdoc, I am focusing on computational models of metacognition to answer questions like “how do we know how confident to be?”, “how does confidence relate to judgments of possibility?”, and “how does confidence g...
Research
Below are some of the topics that I study. Click on one to learn more!Causal Judgment
My main interest in graduate school was 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...
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...