I am a postdoctoral fellow with the Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT, working with Dr. Laura Schulz (MIT) and Dr. Tomer Ullman (Harvard). I completed my PhD in Psychology at Stanford University, where I worked with Hyowon Gweon, and a B.A. in Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley. My research combines methods from Developmental, Cognitive, and Computational Psychology to interrogate the development of cooperative decision-making in humans. Though humans are motivated to cooperate, figuring out how best to cooperate is far from trivial. You must understand what another person wants, you must balance what they want with what you want, and you must plan and execute an action that achieves the negotiated, joint goal. The overarching goal of my research is to behaviorally, developmentally, and computationally characterize the social-cognitive mechanisms that support human cooperative decision-making in all of its complexity and nuance: when it is successful, when it backfires, and when it is intentionally subverted.