Her research interests include cognitive aging and decision making. Much of her research has focused how individuals make real world high risk decisions, such as retirement investment allocations and cancer treatment decisions. Her research has shown that individuals’ goals, knowledge, risk tolerance, personality, and perceptions, as well as input from other individuals impact not only how older adults make decisions but also the quality of those decisions. In addition, she has found that the relationship between these variables and the decision process and outcome varies depending on the age and gender of the decision maker. Her teaching interests include cognitive aging, psychology of aging, decision making, and research methodology.