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William Hayes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University, leading the Decision Research and Modeling (DReaM) lab. His research focuses on cognitive processes in decision making, particularly how context influences choice behavior and the computational mechanisms underlying experience-based decisions. Techniques employed include large-scale online experiments, eye-tracking, mouse-tracking, and computational modeling. He is currently accepting graduate students for Fall 2024.
Education:
- Postdoc, Indiana University
- PhD, University of South Carolina
- MA, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- BS, North Greenville University
Research Interests:
- Preferential choice and reinforcement learning
- Naturalistic decision making
- Hierarchical Bayesian models
- Machine learning methods applied to decision processes
His work explores how people encode past outcomes and adapt behaviors for long-term rewards, with recent studies addressing attribute comparability, attention dynamics, and biases in large language models. The DReaM lab emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding decision mechanisms in complex environments.
Lab/Team: The DReaM lab combines experimental psychology with computational methods to investigate decision-making systems, focusing on contextual influences and adaptive learning processes.
Grants & Advising: While specific grants are not listed, his active student recruitment and publication record suggest ongoing research funding and mentorship roles. No awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided materials.
