Michael is a graduate student working in the Cognitive and Affective Influences in Decision making (CAIDe) Lab with Dr. Ellen Peters. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology and is an Emerging Scholar in the Center for Science Communication Research. Michael’s current research interests include numeracy, affect, motivated cognition, and confidence. He is interested in basic judgment and decision making research and its applications in medicine. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Muhlenberg College with a B.A. and honors in Psychology.