Graduate Student

Diana L. Young Georgia Decision Laboratory Cognitive / Experimental Program M.S. Psychology, University of Georgia, 2007 B.A. Psychology, University of California San Diego, 2003 Office: Psychology 514 Email: dlyoung@uga.edu

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Research Interests

My research interests include judgment and decision-making and general cognition. Specifically, I am interested in situational factors that influence human risk taking and risk perception, including perceived control and time pressure; for this research, we have modeled decision behavior with a prospect theory framework using a psychologically-interpretable probability weighting function. My dissertation research is aimed at developing an appropriate and realistic measure of adolescents' perceptions of sexual risk-taking. Other judgment and decision-making interests include strategic reasoning in two-player competitive games, domain-specificity in risk perception, decisional neuroscience, overconfidence, problem gambling, and the relations between decision behavior, personality traits, and engagement in problematic behaviors (addictions, delinquency, impulsivity, etc.).