People

At Carnegie Mellon University, I conduct research that combines social psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral neuroscience, with a substantive focus on quality of attention as it operates in personal and social domains. A particular current focus is upon mindfulness, including its phenomenology and consequences for emotion regulation, behavior regulation, and well-being. 

I earned my B.Sc in Psychology at the University of Toronto and Ph.D in Social-Personality Psychology at McGill University; I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Social Psychology at the University of Rochester. I have published more than 125 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and edited three books. My work has been featured in national and international media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TIME, among others. I have been a visiting professor at the University of Rochester and the University of Paris and am a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Mind and Life Institute. I am on the editorial boards of the journals Scientific Reports and Journal of Personality, and am a Chief Section Editor at Frontiers in Psychology.