Michael Edward Young Professor

Dr. Young's primary research program involves the study of decision making in dynamic environments. He is currently studying (a) the variables that influence the identification of causes in continuously unfolding environments and (b) the situational and individual variables related to impulsive and risky choice in video game environments. He continues to integrate his background in computer science with his interest in psychology through the development of computational models of environment-behavior relations. Dr. Young's love of mathematics also is revealed by his occasional side project evaluating various statistical and design methods using Monte Carlo simulation.

Keywords: Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, Judgment and Decision Making, Causality

My primary lines of research fall into the area of judgment and decision making, especially in complex dynamic environments (typically, video game tasks). 

Keywords:

• Cognitive/Human Factors
• Judgment and Decision Making & Human-Computer Interaction