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Research interests
My work aims to understand the cognitive processes underlying judgement and decision-making, in particular learning and memory. I study these processes in a range of contexts including economic decisions, food choice, climate action and decisions involving mental and physical effort.
I predominately use behavioural experiments with statistical and computational modelling to ask questions about how people understand risks and make choices.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Experimental Psychology, Doctor of Science, The Role of Reward in Motivated and Incidental Learning, University of Bristol
Award Date: 8 Mar 2016
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Projects
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Constructing the decision environment from memory: how overweighting extreme events biases choice
Mason, A. (PI)
Economic and Social Research Council
1/05/23 → 15/07/24
Project: Research council
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From encoding to retrieval: How memory drives risky choice
Mason, A. (PI)
1/05/19 → 1/10/22
Project: Research-related funding
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Conditioning and Associative Learning
Mason, A., Ludvig, E. A. & Madan, C. R., 2025, The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory: Volume 1. Kahana, M. J. & Wagner, A. D. (eds.). Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press, Vol. 1. p. 334-352 19 p.Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter
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Effects of initial experiences on risky choice
Ludvig, E. A., McMillan, N., Pisklak, J., Mason, A., Long, J., Simonsen, N., Spetch, M. L. & Madan, C. R., 24 Nov 2025, (Acceptance date) In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning the lie of the land: How people construct mental representations of distributions
Mason, A., Szollosi, A. & Newell, B. R., 30 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 51, 4, p. 515-525 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On-task errors drive effort avoidance more than opportunity costs
Embrey, J. R., Mason, A., Donkin, C. & Newell, B. R., 14 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 154, 7, p. 1916-1938 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Risky effort
Mason, A., Sun, Y., Simonsen, N., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L. & Ludvig, E. A., 31 Oct 2024, In: Cognition. 251, 105895.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
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Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
Mason, A. (Recipient), 1 Mar 2024
Prize: Election to learned society