I am a PhD student with the Social and Economic Psychology Group (Chair: Prof. Dr. Robert Böhm) at the Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. I received my M.Phil. in social psychology and B.A. in psychology and philosophy from the University of Hong Kong.
My research
Broadly speaking, I study situations of interdependence. I am interested in how people react to, evaluate, select, and create situations where their behaviors affect not only their own but also others’ outcomes. Currently, I examine why people cooperate and participate in intergroup conflicts and what social institutions encourage cooperation in prominent societal challenges that are structurally social dilemmas. I primarily use surveys and economic experiments, but I seek to draw insights and utilize methods from multiple disciplines, including social psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology. I endorse open science and advocate for practices that increase research transparency, replicability, and generalizability.
Cooperation Colloquia
Together with Simon Columbus (MIT) and Giuliana Spadaro (VU Amsterdam), I organize the Cooperation Colloquia, a forum for latest interdisciplinary research on cooperation in humans, non-human animals, and even machines.