I'm a PhD candidate in Psychology at Yale University and an occasional freelance writer.

Broadly, I’m interested in ethics, policy, and the cognitive sciences. My research builds on insights from classic work in the psychophysical study of sense perception, which I apply to questions that are of interest to moral and social psychologists. Most often, this centers around problems with how we use certain measures, like Likert scales. For example, what does it mean to say that some groups experience certain emotions, like anger or sadness, more intensely than others? My work suggests that the use of such scales is more complicated than we may initially think, and that we can do a better job by using the kinds of methods employed by psychophysicicists.

I'm also a freelance writer, contributing mostly to The Daily Beast, and I'm particularly proud of pieces I've had in The New Republic and The New York Times.