Understanding how people decide — and turning that into better public policy.
We combine psychology, economics, neuroscience, and engineering to uncover the mechanisms behind human decision-making. Using experimental, computational, and data-science methods, we turn basic research into actionable insight for consumer and transportation policy.
Dept. of Civil Engineering
ISCI — Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería
Two research programs, one question — how do people actually decide?
Basic Mechanisms of Learning & Behavior
Experimental and computational studies of the mental and neural processes that shape decisions — from Pavlovian conditioning to computational models of choice.
Behavioral Data Analysis
Machine learning and econometrics applied to real-world consumer and traveler decisions, from eye-tracking experiments to large-scale transport data.
Recent work
View all publications →Value control of punishment
Human goal-directed behavior is resistant to interventions on the action-outcome contingency
Impact of real-time information on passenger satisfaction across varying public transport quality levels in 13 Chilean cities