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Emil Persson

Associate Professor, Docent

Behavioral economics with focus on health economics 

I use insights from behavioral economics, psychology and neuroscience to explore topics in health economics and public economics. Much of my research has an applied policy focus but I am also interested in exploring more general aspects of everyday decision-making, for example how behavior is influenced by biological factors.

Research

Much of my work focuses on how emotions and cognitive biases influence individuals’ decision-making, and I investigate the implications of these effects for policy design.

Some topics I find interesting:

  • The role of moral emotions in rationing of healthcare
  • The psychology of democratic decision-making
  • Opportunity cost neglect in public policy
  • The effect of decision fatigue on doctors’ decision-making

See my personal webpage for more information.

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JEDI-lab

We at JEDI lab at Linköping University conduct research on intuition, reflection, and emotion in economic decision-making. The aim of our research is to understand everyday decision-making and its underlying processes.

Publications

2025

David Andersson, Malou Lindberg, Gustav Tinghög, Emil Persson (2025) No evidence for decision fatigue using large-scale field data from healthcare Communications Psychology, Vol. 3, Article 33 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Liam Strand, Lars Sandman, Emil Persson, David Andersson, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Gustav Tinghög (2024) Withdrawing versus Withholding Treatments in Medical Reimbursement Decisions: A Study on Public Attitudes Medical decision making, Vol. 44, p. 641-648 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Gustav Tinghög, Emil Persson, Daniel Västfjäll (2024) Medical Homo Ignorans, Shared Decision Making, and Affective Paternalism: Balancing Emotion and Analysis in Health Care Choices Medical decision making, Vol. 44, p. 611-613 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Emil Persson, Gustav Tinghög, Daniel Västfjäll (2024) Intertemporal prosocial behavior: a review and research agenda Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 15, Article 1359447 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Michal Pietrzak, Adam Yngve, Paul J. Hamilton, Anna Asratian, Emelie Gauffin, Andreas Löfberg, Sarah Gustavson, Emil Persson, Andrea Johansson Capusan, Lorenzo Leggio, Irene Perini, Gustav Tinghög, Markus Heilig, Rebecca Böhme (2024) Ghrelin decreases sensitivity to negative feedback and increases prediction-error related caudate activity in humans, a randomized controlled trial Neuropsychopharmacology, Vol. 49, p. 1042-1049 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Organisation

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Economics (NEK)

The Division of Economics belongs to the Department of Management and Engineering and carries out education and research in the field of Economics. Economics covers a wide range of different financial aspects.
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Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.
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About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

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