Honours and Master Theses

If you are interested in how people make decisions and would like to write your thesis in the area of neuroeconomics / behavioural economics, get in touch.

Here are some examples of students’ theses that turned into peer-reviewed publications:

• Berger A. and Tymula A. (2022) Controlling ambiguity: The illusion of control in decision-making under risk and ambiguity [short poster presentation]  Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 

• Guo J. and Tymula A. (2021) Waterfall illusion in risky choice, European Economic Review, 139 

• Tymula A. and Wang X. (2021) Increased risk-taking, not loss tolerance, drives adolescents’ propensity to gamble more under peer observation, [supplement], Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 188:439-457

• Tymula, A. and Whitehair, J. (2018) Young adults gamble less when observed by peers, Journal of Economic Psychology, 68:1-15

Predoctoral program

If you are interested in an academic career and would like to try it out and gain some research experience, get in touch.

Students from the pre-doctoral program who progressed to PhD programs include:

• Nick Mizen (2024 – 2025), PhD in Economics at the University of Michigan

• Emily Shaw (2022), PhD in Economics at Oxford

• Lexin (Avery) Liang (2021), PhD in Psychology at NYU

• Zhenlin Kang (2020 – 2021), PhD at Caltech

• Xueting Wang (2017), Ph.D. at University of Sydney

Participate in Experiments to Help Science and Make $

If you are a University of Sydney student and would like to participate in research studies and earn some extra spending money, follow the instructions on this website.