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WHAT WE DO
WHAT WE DO
Our lab studies the cognitive processes involved in judgment and decision making.
Techniques include behavioral experiments, process tracing (e.g., eye-tracking), and computational modeling.
Accepting graduate students for Fall 2026
WHERE WE ARE
WHERE WE ARE
We are located in the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University (New York, USA).
WHO WE ARE
WHO WE ARE
Lab Director: William M. Hayes, Ph.D.
LAB NEWS
LAB NEWS
2025
May 2025: New open-access paper in Open Mind: Relative value encoding in large language models: A multi-task, multi-model investigation
April 2025: Congratulations to graduate student Melanie Touchard, whose conference paper was accepted at CogSci 2025! Melanie's paper is titled, "Can Visual Fixations Explain Context-Dependent Reinforcement Learning?"
April 2025: Dr. Hayes was featured in a Daily Mail article about the effects of warmer weather on risky decision making.
March 2025: Undergraduate research assistant Joelle Sacks was awarded the Chancellor's Award! Congratulations, Joelle!
2024
November 2024: Dr. Hayes presented a poster at Psychonomics entitled "Context-Dependent Valuation in Reinforcement Learning."
October 2024: Our undergraduate researchers presented a poster titled "College Students' Trust in Artificial Intelligence for Advice on Big Life Decisions" at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA) conference.
September 2024: New paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: Attribute commensurability and context effects in preferential choice
August 2024: The DReaM Lab welcomes its first graduate student, Melanie Touchard! Melanie comes to us from Seton Hall University, where she received her B.A. in Psychology Honors with a minor in Data Analytics. We are so happy to have you on board, Melanie!
July 2024: Our summer undergraduate research project was featured on BingUNews!
July 2024: Dr. Hayes presented a talk at the Cognitive Science Society meeting in Rotterdam on "Relative Value Biases in Large Language Models."
May 2024: Check out our latest preprint, "Large Language Models are Biased Reinforcement Learners."
May 2024: The lab is adding four undergraduate researchers this summer as part of Binghamton University's Projects for New Undergraduate Researchers (BUPNUR) program. They will be working on a project entitled, "Decisions from Experience in Humans and AI." Welcome Joyce, Isaac, Allen, and Hiten! We are glad to have you.
January 2024: Check out our latest preprint, "Relative Value Biases in Large Language Models."
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