My interest is in social interaction and the cognitive mechanisms that enable humans to flexibly coordinate and collaborate with one another: from shared deliberation in small groups to conformity with population-wide regularities like conventions and social norms. Recently, I have worked on the interaction between high-level cognitive processes like reasoning and judgments of ownership over objects and low-level sensorimotor ones like the perception of object affordances both in individual and in social contexts.

My general aim is to develop a common framework between the cognitive and the social sciences and I believe that game theory can …

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