graduate student at miller memory lab
department of psychological and brain sciences
university of
california, santa barbara
formerly grad student at kantner
lab, california state university, northridge
my research lives at the intersection of memory,
decision making, and individual differences. i’m interested in
understanding how people make seemingly mundane decisions with limited,
fuzzy, or conflicting evidence across various domains (e.g., memory,
perception, language). outside of my own areas of research, i also try
to stay up to date on metacognition/consciousness, misinformation,
meta-science, and Rstats.
my current project investigates how people evaluate
and incorporate external memory aids (e.g., base rate, feedback) to
achieve optimal decision making over time, why people exhibit varying
levels of decisional flexibility/adaptability, and what
optimality means in a contradiction-ridden world.
my background is in cognitive psychology, with some
training in cognitive neuroscience, though i still prefer behavioral
methods in my own projects. i refer to myself a cognitive scientist, a
psychologist, a cognitive neuroscientist, or a decision-making
researcher interchangeably, depending on the occasion
cv: view/download (pdf)
email: luna.li@psych.ucsb.edu
bsky: @luna-li.me
last updated: 2024-09-01