I’m a Research Scientist at the Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI), where I build and study AI tools that help people navigate disagreement—including the coaching system inside Perspectives, a dialogue program deployed at 150+ colleges and universities. I’m also a Research Affiliate at Princeton University.

Beneath most disagreements is a clash over motives: whether the other side is acting in good or bad faith, whether they hold their beliefs out of moral concern or self-interest. My research examines how people understand motives—their own and other people’s—how perceptions of others' motives get distorted in conflict, and how to intervene when they do. This work extends from basic science on introspection and social perception to a large-scale AI-powered program teaching skills for constructive disagreement. I approach these questions with a mix of behavioral experiments, field studies, and computational modeling. Some of this work has been covered by BBC, Time, and Discover.

I grew up in Vancouver, Canada, where I earned my BA at Simon Fraser University. I received my PhD from Yale University and completed my postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. To learn more about my work, find my publications below or on Google Scholar.