Kristopher Nichols
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in psychology advised by Profs. Elke Weber and Natalia Velez. My research investigates the role of social learning in different aspects of judgement and decision-making. In one of my current lines of work, I study social learning vis-á-vis social norms, investigating the role norms play in coordination. In another line of work, I study how social learning facilitates exploration, with a focus on decision-making under uncertainty and concept formation.
The Hamid Biglari *87 Behavioral Science Fellowship from the Kahneman-Treisman Center supports my research. Before coming to Princeton, I earned a Master's degree in social sciences with a certificate in computational social sciences from the University of Chicago and a Bachelors in psychology from Stephen F. Austin State University.