PhD student in social cognition, studying how impressions form and update under noisy evidence.

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Hello! I'm a PhD student in Cognitive Science at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, part of Paris Sciences & Letters (PSL) University. Under the supervision of Hugo Mercier¹ in the evolution and social cognition team, I study how people reason about what others know or believe. My work combines behavioral experiments with Bayesian and computational models of social inference.

A central thread is competence inference: how we figure out who knows what, from cues like accuracy, response time, and confidence, and how these judgments guide knowledge attribution and information search [3],[4]. A related line asks how initial impressions update when new evidence arrives: do updates follow optimal Bayesian rules, or do first impressions tip the scales?

I also have an interest in insight and its impact on cultural evolution. Recent work explored how the feeling of insight contributes to the success of riddles and whodunits [2], and whether insight-seeking might be a personality trait distinct from other forms of curiosity [1].

I did a MPhil in Cognitive Sciences at ENS-PSL. Before that, I pursued philosophy and political studies, only to find myself frustrated with how often “human nature” assumptions were presented without empirical support. That curiosity guided me toward cognitive science, where I found out that designing and running experiments was pretty fun!

Feel free to explore the rest of this site for more details on my current research and publications. Note that all my experiments are preregistered; and all my code and data are open source. If you’d like to connect, get in touch. I look forward to hearing from you!

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