Broadly, I am interested in how people respond to uncertain, volatile environments, and how these responses relate to anxiety. More specifically, my research focuses on how aberrant reinforcement learning processes contribute to maladaptive behaviors, cognitive biases, and emotional reactions in anxiety disorders, with a particular interest in social anxiety disorder. I hope to use this research to develop novel interventions targeting specific cognitive mechanisms to alleviate the burden of mental illness. I also take a large-scale, population approach to study mental illness stigma, with the goal of advancing our understanding of factors that contribute to this stigma and consequences of this stigma for people experiencing mental illness.