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I am a behavioral scientist focusing on judgment and decision making with a micro organizational behavioral perspective. More specifically, I study the ways in which people’s political and moral beliefs influence their behavior in the workplace and in society more generally. I am a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Leeds University Business School at the University of Leeds. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, working with Maryam Kouchaki. I completed my Ph.D. in psychology at Cornell University, primarily working with David Pizarro.

Much of my work examines how people, as social beings, attempt to navigate and predict their world while keeping in mind their moral and political attitudes. Morality and politics shape how we think about each other, influencing everything from questions of trust and cooperation to business decisions regarding hiring and firing. Understanding these influences can thus inform a broad array of real-world behaviors. I take a multi-method approach to answering these questions, employing experimental, developmental, and field methods and designs. I also draw inspiration from a variety of fields, including psychology, organizational behavior, political science, philosophy, and communications.

Here you can find pdfs of some of my published work.

Here you can find a copy of my CV (and a little bit about me).

(The picture to the left is me at Taughannock Falls near Cornell University)

 

RESEARCH AND FUTURE WORK!

Actively working on projects relating to judgments of moral character, moral feedback, social cognition and prediction, and the relation between political ideology and other attitudes and cognitions.

To learn more about my research, click on the image!