Experimental economics
I've always been fascinated by human behavior, and much of my work has focused on understanding human preferences and decision making. One of the best ways to learn about what people value and why is experimental economics--experiments placing human subjects in decision making frames involving real economic consequences. I list some of those studies here (some of these are listed on other pages as well).
Brown, Thomas C., and Stephan Kroll. 2017. Avoiding an uncertain catastrophe: climate change mitigation under risk and wealth heterogeneity. Climatic Change 141(2):155-166.
Maas, Alexander, Christopher Goemans, Dale Manning, Stephan Kroll, and Thomas Brown. Dilemmas, coordination and defection: How uncertain tipping points induce common pool resource destruction. 2017. Games and Economic Behavior 104:760-774. [This won the Outstanding Published Research Award in 2018 from the Western Agricultural Economics Association.]
Kingsley, David C., and Thomas C. Brown. Endogenous and costly institutional deterrence in a public good experiment. 2016. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 62:33-41.
Brown, Thomas C. 2003. Loss aversion without the endowment effect, and other explanations for the WTA-WTP disparity. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 57(2005):367-379.
Boyce, RR, TC Brown, GD McClelland, GL Peterson, and WD Schulze. 1992. An experimental examination of intrinsic environmental values as a source of the WTA-WTP disparity. American Economic Review 82(5):1366-1373.