I am an NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University working with Dr. Daryl Cameron in the Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab. My research sits at the intersection of social, moral, and decision-making psychology—broadly, the cognitive science of values.

I study how people decide whose well-being matters, how much it matters, and why those valuations change across social contexts. My work examines variation in how people value their own versus others’ welfare; how generosity and moral concern extend to close others, strangers, and broader social groups; and how people evaluate whether another person’s values align with their own. I am especially interested in the psychological processes that shape altruism, prosocial decision-making, moral judgment, and social obligation.

I received my PhD in Psychology at Georgetown University under the mentorship of Dr. Abigail Marsh in the Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience. I received my BA in Psychology from Princeton University, where I completed my undergraduate thesis under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Fiske. 

My broader goal is to develop an empirically grounded account of how people make social and moral valuations—and how those valuations shape relationships, cooperation, judgment, and public life.