I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton's University Center for Human Values. I'm primarily interested in belief, bounded rationality, and the interaction of cognition with computational and environmental constraints. My research aims to understand the mechanisms of belief formation and how beliefs are updated (or not) in response to evidence.My work on belief integrates research across several disciplines, including Cognitive Science (judgment and decision-making, learning, memory, and reasoning), Social Psychology (attitudes, persuasion, social influence), Philosophy (philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, mental representation, epistemology), and AI (reason maintenance, belief revision, case-based learning).

Email: joseph.sommer@princeton.edu