I am an experimental psychologist interested in the psychology beliefs. I ask questions such as:

• How are beliefs mentally represented?

• What makes beliefs more or less likely to become culturally widespread?

• What roles do beliefs play in our private and social lives?

• How can we change problematic beliefs?

I'm a Research Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Arizona State University. I completed my Ph.D. in Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2018). I was there advised by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology.

I've published in the best journals in psychology such as American Psychologist, Psychological Review, and Perspectives on Psychological Sciences. My research has been supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, and John Templeton Foundation. I received the New Investigator Award from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.

I take an interdisciplinary approach to my research, combining foundational insights and tools from social psychology, computational cognitive science, adaptationist evolutionary biology, cultural evolution, and the humanities.

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