I am a postdoc in the psychology department at the University of Washington. I work on several NIAAA- and NIDA-funded studies in which we aim to contribute to our understanding of the etiology of substance use disoders. Mainly, we study if and how emotions shape people’s decision to consume (more) alcohol and cannabis. More generally, I am interested in mechanistic explanations of people’s subjective experience of the world and decision-making, and have been a proponent of Open Science since starting grad school.
PhD in Psychology, 2020
Radboud University
MSc in Psychology, 2015
Maastricht University
BSc in Psychology, 2014
University of Groningen
This study meta-analyzed individual participant data from 12,394 individuals across 69 studies in which participants reported their emotional state and alcohol use for multiple days. Contrary to theoretical models of alcohol use, the findings indicated that people are not more likely to drink and do not consume more alcohol on days that they report higher negative affect but are more likely to drink on days that they report higher positive affect.