Jiamiao Yang

My research interests focus on understanding the computations that allow people to function in a social environment, concentrating on social decision-making, social learning, and cognitive biases such as the framing effect. My first project is to explore how the framing effect influences a social learning process, in which individuals learn the consequences of their actions in morally conflicting situations. My second project is to study temporal discounting for self and friends in adolescence, using hierarchical Bayesian hyperbolic models to analyse the behavioural data and combine the winning model with the fMRI data.