I am a 5th year Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Elizabeth Tricomi in the Learning & Decision-Making Lab at Rutgers University-Newark. I received my B.S. in Psychology at the University of Vermont with Dr. Eric Thrailkill and Dr. Mark Bouton, where I studied the processes of learning, extinction, and renewal of operant behavior. I’m interested in the processes by which humans learn and make decisions. More specifically, my research investigates how context, feedback, choice architecture, and cognitive biases can lead individuals or groups to behave in ways that are counter to their goals. My dissertation focuses on how people make effort-based decisions, and the impact of social factors on willingness to exert effort for oneself and others. The goal of my research is to study and nudge behavior in many areas including personal goals, health, prosocial action, and more.