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Background and research interests

I’m an experimental psychologist by training with a little experience in formal modeling. My interests do not really conform to any one particular discipline within psychology, but most can be subsumed under the label judgment and decision making (very broadly defined).
Thus, many of my papers are somewhere at the intersection between cognitive/experimental psychology (including cognitive modeling), behavioral economics, personality, and social psychology. Beyond these substantive areas, I'm also interested in psychological methods and philosophy of science.

Here are some keywords (in no particular order)

• cooperation, pro-social behavior, and social dilemmas
• ethical dilemmas (cheating and dishonesty)
• probabilistic inferences (especially from memory)
• adaptive cognition, heuristics, and decision strategy classification
• risky choice (especially sampling and the role of perception/attention)
• judgments of truth (e.g. framing effects, the role of fluency)
• consumer choice
• interpersonal trust
• person-situation interactions
• models of personality structure
• maladaptive personality, “dark” traits
• personality assessment
• multinomial processing tree models
• (formal) model comparison techniques
• indirect questioning (randomized response models)
• process measures (e.g. eye-tracking, mouse-tracking)
• online research (web-experiments)
• experimental methods and methodology, philosophy of science