Research in our lab seeks to understand how people, using their brains, make value-based decisions.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2018
Yaaa! Our @NeurIPSConf submission has been been accepted to the Evaluations and Datasets track #NeurIPS2026!! 🎉
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I've been trying to figure out what I (and so many others) dislike about AI writing. It's very clear. It's good at getting the level right, not going over the reader's head but not talking down. Often it's clever, and sometimes even funny. (At least Claude is) ...
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This seems exactly right to me based on the data I've seen
“It is easier for a working-class kid to pick up an SAT prep book and study it intensively than it is for them to go on a community-service trip to South America, play travel lacrosse, or flatter the sensibilities of an upper-middle-class admissions official.”
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Excited to be at the Symposium for Well-Being and Agency at Caltech on August 30-31. Registration is free. This symposium will discuss how we can contribute to democratic deliberation and policy choices that expand possibilities for well-being and agency. wellbeing-agency.jp/symposiu…
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Time's running out to sign up for the Economic Science Association world meeting July 15-17 in beautiful Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles). The day before (July 14), we're hosting a "choice process" symposium with many amazing speakers. Best part - it's free with ESA registration.
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Submit (by June 1) and register (by June 8) at the conference website: sites.google.com/view/esa202… In addition to a fantastic program, the conference location is right on the beach, and very close to spots where you can swim, surf, SUP, beach volleyball... Join us for a great time!
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Autonomous AI agents are now built into many browsers. A naive user can take an online survey with as little as the click of a button. For behavioral research, which depends heavily on online samples, this is a real problem. (1/6)
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At a minimum, eye tracking confirms that eyeballs are pointed at the screen, which alone keeps AI agents from completing studies on their own. With a bit more work, researchers can also verify that a human is genuinely attending to the task. (5/6)
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Compendium with tools and tutorials: kiante-fernandez.github.io/w… Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ec… We welcome feedback from anyone concerned with AI agents in their data, or who wants to try the tools out. (6/6)
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Calling all economists! Jenn Pate and I are hosting The ESA Meetings in July 14th-17th in sunny Los Angeles. Still accepting submissions - we welcome any experimental paper - lab, field, survey... & novel methods to answer behavioral questions. sites.google.com/view/esa202…
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Excited to be participating in the workshop on Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings in Lucca (Italy) April 27-28. There's a great lineup, with Giorgio Coricelli, Susann Fiedler, Andreas Glöckner, and Carlos Alós-Ferrer. Join us! decisionmaking.imtlucca.it/
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📣 New book chapter Very excited to see my chapter "The Neural Mechanisms of Strategic Decision-Making" finally out in a new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions", edited by David Smith, Patricia Lockwood, and Dominic Fareri. link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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We are so thrilled to welcome new colleagues @ErieBoorman, @maureenritchey, and Ajay Satpute to UCLA. What an exciting day for UCLA Psychology! #neuroeconomics
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New paper in @CognitionJourn, where we show how attention impacts political choices. With an eye-tracking study, we find that people's voting choices aren't set in stone - they take longer to vote on divisive issues and can be swayed by gaze manipulations. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Building on past attentional drift diffusion model (aDDM) work, we find that gaze has a stronger effect on choice for more important issues. This work shows how ballot design can influence political outcomes, by drawing attention to certain options. Project led by @taroyang3302.
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Belated congratulations to our former labmate @MirunaCotet for her Paper of the Year Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics. The award celebrates her work on the cognitive dynamics of bargaining, using eBay data, published in PNAS. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna… #SNE2025
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