My empirical research consists of experiments on the World Wide Web, much of it concerned with the role of moral heuristics and biases in citizens' judgments about public policies and law. I'm also willing to supervise theoretical projects or those that use publicly available data.

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Independent study: I am interested in supervising independent research (Psychology 299 or 399) related to my own research program, or when a student initiates a project within my field of expertise and interest. This is not a "research assistant job." I expect each student to carry out a project from start to finish even if I play the main role in defining its objectives.

Graduate students: The same goes for prospective graduate students. Prospective graduate students should contact me before applying.

Computer literacy requirement: My empirical work on the World Wide Web uses html and JavaScript. For data analysis, I use R.

Independent study students must be familiar with command-line applications, text editors, and scripts. Prospective graduate students must be willing to learn these things, if they don't already know them.

Research assistance: I am not looking for research assistance.

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For information about my own current projects, the best place is my web page, specifically the "2008" and "2009" links in the section labeled "Some drafts and talks."

Also, here are some grant proposals:

Intuitions about punishment and deterrence in law: heuristics, biases, and the role of emotions (pdf)

Inconsistency and bias in thinking about tax reform

New measures of financial risk tolerance (not funded)

Evaluation of public goods and policies (submitted)

Last modified: 10/29/09