Q: What are you passionate about outside of work?
I’m a big hockey fan (it’s the Canadian in me!) and I enjoy hiking, the more precarious the better.
I’m a big hockey fan (it’s the Canadian in me!) and I enjoy hiking, the more precarious the better.
I am originally from Cape Town, South Africa and grew up with mountains and two oceans on my doorstep. As a teenager, I moved to Toronto, Canada, and lived there for ten years before moving to America for graduate school.
When the consultants get together for a brainstorm session. It’s an opportunity for us to challenge one another and to combine and apply our different skills.
The collaborative environment. Everybody’s input is valued and everyone encourages one another to succeed.
I attended the dual degree law and psychology JD/PhD program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduating Order of the Coif from UNL Law and receiving my PhD in jury decision-making psychology.
We are not very good at interpreting our own emotions. We often can misattribute feelings created by one source to another. For example, men who had just crossed a rickety, frightening bridge were more likely to pursue a relationship with a woman they met shortly after crossing than were men who had walked across a… more Q: Tell us something fascinating about human behavior.
I have always found the intersection of law and psychology fascinating, but I did not want to spend my career researching and writing articles that have little to no impact outside of academia. Instead, I loved the idea of taking my knowledge of existing research and applying it to real world cases and juries. Every… more Q: How did you get into this line of work? What keeps you in it?