University of California, Berkeley, B. A.
1285 Franz Hall
Box 951563
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
Research Interest:
My interests are many. Broadly, I'm interested in understanding the relationships among phenomenological experience, cognition, and neural activity. I believe phenomenological experience is inherently social; therefore, I feel quite at home in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience lab. To put my interests more colloquially, I'm interested in how people feel and what they think about their thoughts. Do people feel good or bad about their thoughts? Do they trust them, or do they doubt them? Do they feel like they control them, or do they feel like they run their own course? Do they think they have too few thoughts, or too many thoughts? More specifically, my recent interests have revolved around how negative affect (e.g. distress, anxiety) is functionally intertwined with cognitive conflict and cognitive control. One application of this interest is to the area of decision-making, specifically indecision and indecisiveness. Another application is to the literature on conflict detection. I am also very interested in dual-process models of cognition, metacognition, metaconsciousness, doubt, suspicion, and action identification.