My research interest lies at the intersection of psychology and economics. 

In general, I am interested in complex and, hence, ambiguous circumstances which can be self-servingly exploited in choice situations involving (re)distributions. My most recent interest concerns redistributing towards immigrants and how natives' beliefs about immigrants shape these preferences. I am also interested in how fairness preferences shape redistributive choices in contexts where responsibility can be assigned with good faith or maliciously. To this end, I also work on health economics topics. Finally, I am also interested in how shame, blame, and embarrassment shape one's willingness to self-disclose and how blame assignment shapes redistributive preferences in the health context. I am typically working with experiments. 

Keywords for my research: welfare chauvinism, redistributive preferences, experiments, first and second order beliefs, fairness norms, immigrants, natives, shame, blame, women's health