Agnieszka Anna Tymu  laGlimcher Lab Center for Neuroeconomics New York University 4 Washington Place, Room 909 New York, NY 10003 Tel: (212) 998-3904 Fax: (212) 995-4011 tymula@nyu.edu I have been recently awarded a two year Post-Doctoral Fellowship from AXA Research Fund to support my investigation of how a decision makers’ evaluation of outcome quality changes when the benchmark against which this outcome is compared, the reference point, changes. As a final product of this research project I plan to construct a novel model of reference dependent preferences, based on spatial and temporal normalization models from neuroscience that describe the biophysical calculations hypothesized to underlie the physical instantiation of the reference point. I am also interested in how our decisions are influenced by other non-monetary
factors, such as self-esteem, status, feedback, thirst and hunger or emotions. I am also working on projects that examine how preferences and decision making process change as people age and what impact these changes have on optimal market or policy design. Papers: "Feedback, Self-Esteem and Performance in Organizations", (with Camelia Kuhnen), Management Science, 58:94-113, January 2012 "Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study" (with Jens Großer and Ernesto Reuben) , R&R at the American Journal of Political Science "Relating
Risk Preference, Water Rewards, and Thirst: Wealth and Utility in
Monkeys", (with Hiroshi Yamada, Kenway Louie and Paul Glimcher), R&R at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences "Measuring the Subjective Value of Risky and Ambiguous Options Using Experimental Economics and Functional fMRI Methods", (with Ifat Levy, Lior Rosenberg Belmaker, Kirk Manson and Paul Glimcher), Journal of Visualized Experiments, in press "Rebels With A Cause: Teenagers Seek Ambiguity Not Risks" (with Lior Rosenberg Belmaker, Amy Roy, Lital Ruderman, Kirk Manson, Paul W. Glimcher and Ifat Levy), under review
"Competitive Screening of Heterogeneous Labor Force and Corporate Teamwork Attitude", under review Research in progress:"Flexible Valuations for Consumer Goods as Measured by the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Mechanism", (with Eva Woelbert and Paul Glimcher) "Ambiguity and risk attitudes in broad population" (with Paul Glimcher, in cooperation with the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences) - don't miss our exhibit/experiment when you visit Washington! "Examination of Decision-Making under Risk and Ambiguity Across the Lifespan", (with Lior Rosenberg-Belmaker, Ifat Levy and Paul Glimcher) "Behavioral
and Neural Determinants of Reference Point in Financial Decisions", (with Paul
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