About me
My research examines how age and income shape decision-making across the adult lifespan, with a focus on delay and probability discounting — how people value rewards that are delayed, uncertain, or both. I study how personality, cognitive ability, and financial resources — financial security and financial literacy — shape the way older and younger adults weigh these attributes when making decisions.
A central focus of this work is attribute weighting: how strongly each dimension of an outcome — its amount, delay, or probability — contributes to its value, and how that weighting changes when several dimensions must be considered at once. I examine how the salience of each attribute and an individual’s cognitive ability govern this process, and how the resulting weights vary with factors such as age, income, and personality.
I am an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at Duke Kunshan University, where I direct the Lifespan Decision Science Lab. I received my Ph.D. in Psychological & Brain Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis and hold a B.A. in Economics and Psychology from Reed College.