I am a behavioral economist and cognitive scientist who studies how information technology complements human thought. My work studies how mental constraints determine the way we process information and, in turn, impact the structure of markets, firms, and digital platforms. I apply these insights to study the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence and other sources of digital innovation.
Working Papers
Peer-Reviewed Publications
With George Loewenstein. Forthcoming at The Journal of Economic Literature, 2025
Push and Pull: A Framework for Measuring Attentional Agency on Digital Platforms
With Shrey Jain and Nicholas Vincent. Forthcoming at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2025
Undermining Mental Proof: How AI Can Make Cooperation Harder by Making Thinking Easier
With Simon DeDeo. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
When and Why is Persuasion Hard? A Computational Complexity Result
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, 2024
Cognition: A Study in Mental Economy
With George Loewenstein. Cognitive Science, 2023
The Motivational Processes of Sense-Making
Curiosity and the Economics of Attention
With George Loewenstein. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020
From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning
With Simon DeDeo. Trends in Cognitive Science, 2020
Other Research
Further Analysis of Corporoate Bond Market Liquidity
With Tobias Adrian, Michael Flemming, and Erik Vogt. Liberty Street Economics, 2016
Corporate Bond Market Liquidity Redux: More Price-Based Evidence
With Tobias Adrian, Michael Flemming, and Erik Vogt. Liberty Street Economics, 2016
Did Third Avenue's Liquidation Reduce Corporate Bond Market Liquidity?
With Tobias Adrian, Michael Flemming, and Erik Vogt. Liberty Street Economics, 2016
Apparatus for Sealing Slide Bottom
World Patent No. Wo2010077975 A1, 2010