I am a psychologist who studies the cognitive processes that are involved in judgment and decision making. My research examines how people assess the subjective utilty of experiences in the past, present, and future, and how those assessments influence judgments and decisions. One research project, for example, showed that football fans were likely to remember the best game they ever saw and use that memory, rather than memories of more typical games, to predict their enjoyment of a game they were about to attend (Morewedge, Gilbert, & Wilson, 2005).

I also examine causal reasoning. In other words, how people interpret and decide what caused thoughts, actions, and events. Other aspects of this work examine effects of those interpretations.