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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Joel Myerson is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans several fields including psychology, neuroscience, and decision sciences, with a significant volume of work focused on the intersection of cognitive processes and behavioral economics.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Decision Sciences

Within these, the subfields covered are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Applied Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Economics and Econometrics

Their research topics frequently address:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Myerson has contributed to multiple publication venues, often publishing in:

  • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Behavioural Processes
  • PLoS ONE
  • Experimental Aging Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Is it time? Episodic imagining and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards in young and older adults" (2020, Cognition)
  • "The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in reward valuation and future thinking during intertemporal choice" (2021, eLife)
  • "Delay discounting, cognitive ability, and personality: What matters?" (2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • "Individual differences in COVID-19 mitigation behaviors: The roles of age, gender, psychological state, and financial status" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Increased Connectivity among Sensory and Motor Regions during Visual and Audiovisual Speech Perception" (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Leonard Green
  • Sandra Hale
  • Michael Strube
  • R. Shayna Rosenbaum
  • Yu-Hua Yeh

Joel Myerson was awarded the fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1981.

Best Publications

  • A discounting framework for choice with delayed and probabilistic rewards.

    Leonard Green;Joel Myerson

  • AREA UNDER THE CURVE AS A MEASURE OF DISCOUNTING

    Joel Myerson;Leonard Green;Missaka Warusawitharana

  • Discounting of Delayed Rewards: A Life-Span Comparison

    Leonard Green;Astrid F Fry;Joel Myerson

  • Discounting of delayed rewards: Models of individual choice.

    Joel Myerson;Leonard Green

  • Rate of temporal discounting decreases with amount of reward.

    Leonard Green;Joel Myerson;Edward Mcfadden

  • Temporal discounting in choice between delayed rewards: the role of age and income.

    Leonard Green;Joel Myerson;David Lichtman;Suzanne Rosen

  • The Information-Loss Model: A Mathematical Theory of Age-Related Cognitive Slowing

    Joel Myerson;Sandra Hale;David Wagstaff;Leonard W. Poon

  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Discounting Delayed and Probabilistic Rewards

    Wanjiang Du;Leonard Green;Joel Myerson

  • Temporal discounting and preference reversals in choice between delayed outcomes.

    Leonard Green;Nathanael Fristoe;Joel Myerson

  • Differential effects of amount on temporal and probability discounting of gains and losses

    Sara J. Estle;Leonard Green;Joel Myerson;Daniel D. Holt

  • Amount of reward has opposite effects on the discounting of delayed and probabilistic outcomes.

    Leonard Green;Joel Myerson;Pawel Ostaszewski

  • Discounting of Monetary and Directly Consumable Rewards

    Sara J. Estle;Leonard Green;Joel Myerson;Daniel D. Holt

  • Converging evidence that visuospatial cognition is more age-sensitive than verbal cognition.

    Lisa Jenkins;Joel Myerson;Jennifer A. Joerding;Sandra Hale

  • Is discounting impulsive? Evidence from temporal and probability discounting in gambling and non-gambling college students

    Daniel D Holt;Leonard Green;Joel Myerson

  • Exponential Versus Hyperbolic Discounting of Delayed Outcomes: Risk and Waiting Time

    Leonard Green;Joel Myerson

  • Discounting delayed and probabilistic rewards: Processes and traits

    Joel Myerson;Leonard Green;J Scott Hanson;Daniel D Holt

  • Discounting of delayed rewards across the life span: age differences in individual discounting functions

    Leonard Green;Joel Myerson;Pawel Ostaszewski

  • Note-taking with computers: Exploring alternative strategies for improved recall.

    Dung C. Bui;Joel Myerson;Sandra Hale

  • Discounting of delayed food rewards in pigeons and rats: is there a magnitude effect?

    Leonard Green;Joel Myerson;Daniel D Holt;John R Slevin

  • How general is general slowing? Evidence from the lexical domain.

    Susan D. Lima;Sandra Hale;Joel Myerson

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonard Green
Leonard Green Washington University in St. Louis
Sandra Hale
Sandra Hale Washington University in St. Louis
R. Shayna Rosenbaum
R. Shayna Rosenbaum York University
Richard A. Abrams
Richard A. Abrams Washington University in St. Louis
Todd S. Braver
Todd S. Braver Washington University in St. Louis
Keith F. Widaman
Keith F. Widaman University of California, Riverside
Leonard W. Poon
Leonard W. Poon University of Georgia
Michael J. Strube
Michael J. Strube Washington University in St. Louis
Desirée A. White
Desirée A. White Washington University in St. Louis
Soo Hyun Rhee
Soo Hyun Rhee University of Colorado Boulder

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