Hello!

Few questions have pursued me as persistently as what kinds of rules people think about when making choices, if at all they do (and this I mean with no disrespect at all to those who do not—if anything the opposite). As life has mysterious ways of offering a helping hand, I found myself under Prof. Srinivasan's wings at CBCS, University of Allahabad, where I attempted to systematize my questioning. From there, I came to IIT Kanpur, still plagued by the same questions about what makes people choose when sticking to a rule is difficult, but now with some tools to strike at an answer.

Under the inescapable influence of Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava (of the PLATIPUS Lab), I was turned to observing the underlying phenomenological experience of how we navigate the everyday mental gymnastics. In that freedom of asking questions and attempting answers, I was only limited by my own blinders. There I explored if the fickleness of decisions can be based upon the fickleness of mental dynamics underlying them. 

I was fortunate to find a postdoc that allowed me to continue gnawing at these questions by bringing legal rules and regulations into the fold. Currently at INCET, Jagiellonian University, I work with Piotr Bystranowski to study how people understand, relate to, and navigate formal systems of rules.