Decision Making

Fan, H., Burke, T., Sambrano, D. C., Dial, E., Phelps, E. A., & Gershman, S. J. (2023). Pupil Size Encodes Uncertainty during Exploration.  Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 35, 1508-20. Abstract.

Fan, H., Gershman, S.J., & Phelps, E.A. (2022). Trait somatic anxiety is associated with reduced directed exploration and underestimation of uncertainty. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 102-13. . Abstract. PDF.

FeldmanHall, O., Montez, D.F., Phelps, E.A., Davachi, L., & Murty, V.P. (2021). Hippocampus Guides Adaptive Learning during Dynamic Social Interactions. Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 1340-8. Abstract PDF

FeldmanHall, O., Glimcher, P. Baker, A.L., NYU PROSPEC Collaboration, & Phelps, E.A. (2019). The functional roles of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in processing uncertainty. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 1742-54. Abstract PDF

FeldmanHall, O., Otto, A.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2018).  Learning moral values: Another’s desire to punish enhances one’s own punitive behavior.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 1211-24. Abstract PDF

Lempert, K.M., McGuire, J.T., Hazeltine, D.B., Phelps, E.A., & Kable, J.W. (2017).  The effects of acute stress on the calibration of persistence.  Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 1-9. Abstract PDF

Lempert, K.M., Lackovic, S.F., Tobe, R.H., Glimcher, P.W., & Phelps, E.A. (2017).  Propranolol reduces reference-dependence in intertemporal choice.  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1394-1401. Abstract PDF

Lempert, K.M., Speer, M.E., Delgado, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2017).  Positive autobiographical memory retrieval reduces temporal discounting.  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1584-93. Abstract PDF

Lenow, J.K., Constantino, S.M., Daw, N.D., & Phelps, E.A. (2017).  Chronic and acute stress promote overexploitation in serial decision making.  Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 5681-9. Abstract PDF

Sokol-Hessner, P., Raio, C.M., Gottesman, S.P., Lackovic, S.F., & Phelps, E.A. (2016).  Acute stress does not affect risky monetary decision-making.  Neurobiology of Stress, 5, 19-25. Abstract PDF

FeldmanHall, O., Glimcher, P., Baker, A.L., & Phelps, E.A. (2016).  Emotion and decision-making under uncertainty: Physiological arousal predicts increased gambling during ambiguity but not risk.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1255-62. Abstract PDF

Murty, V.P., FeldmanHall, O., Hunter, L.E., Phelps, E.A., & Davachi, L. (2016).  Episodic memories predict adaptive value-based decision-making.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 548-58. Abstract PDF

Gillan, C.M., Kosinski, M., Whelan, R., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2016).  Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-oriented control.  eLife, 5, e11305. Abstract PDF

Lempert, K.M., Johnson, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2016).  Emotional arousal predicts intertemporal choice. Emotion, 16, 647-56. Abstract PDF

Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2016).  The malleability of intertemporal choice.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 64-74. Abstract PDF

FeldmanHall, O., Raio, C.M., Kubota, J.T., Seiler, M.G., & Phelps, E.A. (2015).  The effects of social context and acute stress on decision making under uncertainty. Psychological Science, 26, 1918-26. Abstract PDF

Sokol-Hessner, P., Lackovic, S.F., Tobe, R.H., Camerer, C.F., Leventhal, B.L., & Phelps, E.A. (2015).  Determinants of propranolol’s selective effect on loss aversion.  Psychological Science, 26, 1123-30. Abstract PDF

Gillan, C.M., Otto, A.R., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2015).  Model-based learning protects against forming habits.  Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 523-36. Abstract PDF

Lempert, K.M., Glimcher, P.W., & Phelps, E.A. (2015).  Emotional arousal and discount rate in intertemporal choice are reference dependent.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 366-73. Abstract PDF

FeldmanHall, O., Sokol-Hessner, P., Van Bavel, J., & Phelps, E.A. (2014).  Fairness violations elicit greater punishment on behalf of another than for oneself.  Nature Communications, 5, Article number: 5306. Abstract PDF

Kubota, J.T., Mojdehbakhsh, R., Raio, C., Brosch, T., Uleman, J.S., & Phelps, E.A. (2014).  Stressing the person: Legal and everyday person attributions under stress.  Biological Psychology, 103, 117-24. Abstract PDF

Sokol-Hessner, P., Hartley, C.A., Hamilton, J.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2014).  Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses.  Cognition and Emotion, 11, 1-7. Abstract PDF

Phelps, E.A., Lempert, K.M., & Sokol-Hessner, P. (2014).  Emotion and decision making: multiple modulatory neural circuits.  Annual Review of Neuroscience, 37, 263-87. Abstract PDF

Farah, M.J., Hutchinson, J.B., Phelps, E.A., & Wagner, A.D. (2014).  Functional MRI-based lie detection: scientific and societal challenges.  Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15, 123-31. Abstract PDF

Otto, A.R., Raio, C.M., Chiang, A., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2013).  Working-memory capacity protects model-based learning from stress.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 20941-6. Abstract PDF

Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2013).  Neuroeconomics of emotion and decision making.  In  P.W. Glimcher & E. Fehr (eds). Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, 2nd edition. Waltham, MA: Academic Press (219-236). Abstract PDF

Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2013).  The price of racial bias: intergroup         negotiations in the ultimatum game.  Psychological Science, 24, 2498-504. Abstract PDF

Raio, C.M., Orederu, T.A., Palazzolo, L., Shurick, A.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2013).  Cognitive emotion regulation fails the stress test.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 15139-44. Abstract PDF

Hartley, C.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2012).  Anxiety and decision-making. Biological Psychiatry, 72, 113-8. Abstract PDF

Sokol-Hessner, P., Camerer, C.F., & Phelps, E.A. (2012).  Emotion regulation reduces loss aversion and decreases amygdala responses to losses.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 341-50. Abstract PDF