Joseph is a postdoctoral research associate affiliated with the UCHV in the Cognitive Science of Values. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in cognitive psychology. His work emphasizes the severe difficulties of forming accurate beliefs in our extremely complicated world as well as how the mind adaptively directs its limited resources to navigate this complex environment. Joseph's research draws on a broad intersection of fields relevant to belief including judgment and decision-making, reasoning, and the psychology of attitudes and persuasion, as well as the philosophy of science, mental representation, and theory of computation. He is primarily interested in understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying belief, including how beliefs are updated (or not) in response to evidence. Within belief and more broadly, Joseph is passionate about achieving cumulative theories in cognitive science.