I am a social psychologist interested in how human groups navigate complex societal challenges. 

Much of my work has focused on uncovering the cognitive and cultural mechanisms underlying environmental decision-making. In this work, I take a cultural evolution perspective to ask how conceptions of nature change over historical time (e.g., instrumental-spiritual, concrete-abstract) and how these conceptions shape the management of natural resources. By taking a cultural psychology approach to nature-environment relationships, we can gain insight into how cognition and culture determine the sustainability of societies.

The methods I most often use are behavioural experiments, cross-cultural surveys, and natural language processing.

At present, I am a postdoc in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine. I received my PhD in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Canada supervised by Ara Norenzayan and Mark Schaller.