Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science
Division of Social Sciences, Duke Kunshan University
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I study how age and income shape decision-making across the adult lifespan. My research focuses on delay and probability discounting: how people value rewards that are delayed, uncertain, or both delayed and uncertain.
I examine why these preferences differ across individuals and across adulthood, with particular attention to personality, cognitive ability, financial security, and financial literacy. This work connects judgment and decision-making, cognitive aging, and behavioral economics to clarify how people weigh time and uncertainty in consequential choices.
My research uses behavioral experiments, psychometrics, mathematical models of choice, and Bayesian and multilevel methods. I am committed to transparent, reproducible research and share analysis code and open materials whenever possible.
- Age and socioeconomic differences in intertemporal and risky choice
- Decisions involving outcomes that are simultaneously delayed and probabilistic
- Financial and cognitive resources as moderators of decision-making across adulthood
- Measurement and mathematical modeling of discounting
- Wan, H., Myerson, J., Green, L., Strube, M. J., & Hale, S. (2026). Age, income, and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1765142.
- Wan, H., Myerson, J., Green, L., Strube, M. J., & Hale, S. (2025). Age, income, and the discounting of delayed monetary losses. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(11), gbaf162. Code · Data
- Wan, H., Green, L., & Myerson, J. (2025). Brief assessments of delay discounting: Two-amount monetary choice and delayed losses questionnaires. The Psychological Record, 75, 591–597. Code · Data
- Wan, H., Myerson, J., Green, L., Strube, M. J., & Hale, S. (2024). Age-related differences in delay discounting: Income matters. Psychology and Aging, 39(6), 632–643. Code · Data
For a complete publication list, see my Google Scholar profile or website.
These repositories contain reproducible analyses for peer-reviewed research. Each project documents the research question, analytic workflow, and links to the associated publication and open materials when available.
| Study | Focus | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Brief assessments of delay discounting (The Psychological Record, 2025) | Psychometric evaluation of brief monetary choice and delayed-loss questionnaires | Code · Paper · Data |
| Age, income, and delayed monetary losses (The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2025) | How age and income jointly relate to the discounting of delayed losses | Code · Paper · Data |
| Probability discounting in pigeons (Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2025) | Mathematical modeling of probabilistic food reinforcement | Code · Paper · Data |
| Measurement of delayed-loss discounting (Behavioural Processes, 2024) | Convergence across procedures and measures of delayed-loss discounting | Code · Paper · Data |
| Age, income, and delay discounting (Psychology and Aging, 2024) | Income as a moderator of age differences in delay discounting | Code · Paper · Data |
| Individual differences in delay discounting (Behavioural Processes, 2023) | Convergence across procedures and measures of delayed-reward discounting | Code · Paper |
| Social familiarity and reinforcement value in rats (Frontiers in Psychology, 2023) | Behavioral-economic analysis of demand for social interaction | Code · Paper |
| Demand and preference for social and food reinforcement in rats (Learning and Motivation, 2022) | Own-price and cross-price demand for social and food reinforcement | Code · Paper |
| Altruistic food sharing in rats (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021) | Experimental tests of altruistic food sharing | Code · Paper |