I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, where I work with the Decision Insights for Business & Society group and the Centre for Climate and Business Solutions. I received my PhD in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University, where I was advised by Professor Elke Weber. I study how people evaluate societal challenges they cannot observe firsthand and the solutions proposed to address them, across energy decarbonization, the climate actions by individuals and firms, and public support for democratic conduct in government. 

People rely on signals from others and from institutions to fill in what they do not directly observe and cannot verify themselves. Those signals inform what people believe others do and endorse, and how much they are willing to depend on a government or firm for services. I study how norms and trust shape public attitudes, how they enter the construction of a policy judgment at the moment it is made, and how governments and firms can communicate better with the public. I work with lab and field experiments, cognitive process tracing, large-scale text analysis with large language models, and meta-analysis. 

I am a Beijer Young Scholar at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics within the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2024 Maeder Graduate Fellow at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and a contributing author on the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report. I received my B.A. from Dartmouth College in Quantitative Social Science and Environmental Studies. Follow my work on Google Scholar.

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