Ian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. Prior to coming to UCLA, he was faculty in the Departments of Psychology and Economics at The Ohio State University. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Zurich, with Ernst Fehr. And before that, Ian spent ten years at Caltech, earning his Ph.D. in Behavioral and Social Neuroscience with Antonio Rangel, Colin Camerer, Ralph Adolphs and John Ledyard, his M.Sc. in Social Science, and his B.Sc. in Physics and Business Economics & Management.

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Xiaozhi (Taro) Yang is a postdoc at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in Decision Psychology at The Ohio State University in 2024. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studies the role of attention and memory in preferential decisions.

Personal website: https://xiaozhi2.github.io/

Kianté is a Ph.D. student in Cognitive Psychology at UCLA. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Shippensburg University, with an emphasis on Political Psychology. He then received his M.S. while studying Psychology and Biostatistics from Drexel University where he conducted research related to risk preferences, and neuroethics. His current research interests are in combining computational modeling and process-tracing at the levels of neuronal activity and behavior to understand the cognitive processes involved in value-based decision making. Outside of research, his hobbies include reading, distance running, and trying to convince his friends to meditate.
https://www.kiantefernandez.com

Anthony is a Ph.D. student in Cognitive Psychology at UCLA. He was an undergraduate student in mathematics at Williams College. He later received an M.A. in Psychology at San Francisco State University. His research interests are in attention, status quo bias, and risky choice.