Research Areas and Discoveries

Diving deep into why students with math anxiety don’t perform their best in math

• Math anxiety affects math performance differently for different students

• Math anxiety predicts STEM achievement even better than math ability

Discovered a new type of anxiety - creativity anxiety - and investigated ways it shapes creative achievement, big and small

• Measured creativity anxiety for the first time and established it as a barrier to creative achievement

• Studied the effects of feeling anxious about being creative on creative performance

Applying behavioral science for good

• Boosting graduation rates in community college

• Fostering sustainability at Google