Behavior, Motivation, and Collective Judgment
People make decisions from institutional roles: as workers, jurors, officials, investors, consumers, citizens, and members of groups. I study how those roles shape motivation, responsibility, evidence use, and collective judgment.
Motivation, Work, and Meaning
Economic incentives do not operate in a vacuum. My work on labor motivation studies how money, meaning, norms, and social context shape people’s willingness to work, and why motivation may differ across cultural and institutional settings. (NHB 2024)
Juries and Group Decision-Making
Groups can pool information, but they can also suppress, distort, or misweight evidence. My work on juries and group deliberation studies when collective decision-making improves judgment and when it produces systematic errors. (PNAS 2022)
Expert Judgment and Institutional Signals
Experts often make decisions in environments filled with noisy signals, social cues, and institutional incentives. My work on venture capital studies why sophisticated decision-makers can repeatedly invest in opportunities that are predictably likely to fail, and what that reveals about expertise, status, and judgment under uncertainty. (Ongoing)