My PhD project focuses on inadvertent plagiarism (or cryptomnesia). This intriguing phenomenon refers to a mental illusion in which people mistakenly believe that thoughts, words or ideas encountered previously are their own original creations.
In this project, I study the cognitive, motivational, situational and dispositional factors that influence inadvertent plagiarism, as well as the underlying process(es) and possible consequences for (the relationship between) plagiarizer and source.  

Other research interests are agency, automatic versus controlled processes, self-serving biases, memory, and social influence.