Associate Professor
Cognitive and Information Sciences
I study how behaviors emerge and evolve in response to social, cultural, and ecological pressures, as well as how those pressures can themselves evolve. I also have broad interests related to cultural evolution, cooperation, and complex systems. Much of my work involves building and analyzing mathematical models and computer simulations. Some of my current projects involve the emergence of identity signaling strategies, the role of identity in social learning, the role of diversity in innovation, the cultural evolution of analogies, and the population dynamics of scientific norms.
