Her research focuses on the social science of cooperation dilemmas, with specific interests in overfishing and climate change. Her “wonderful, important, and timely” (Brian Eno, Long Now Foundation) book, Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool, is “an intellectually stimulating discussion of shame and its enduring place in the digital age” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). She is also the author of more than twenty scientific publications in places like Biology Letters and Nature Climate Change. Her research has been covered by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Morgan Freeman’s television series Through the Wormhole, Nature News, The New York Times, The Independent, Discover, New Scientist, and The Washington Post.