Emil Persson
Associate Professor, Docent
Research
I study decision making in social and health-related contexts, often from the perspective of behavioral economics using experimental methods (lab, field, online) or registry data.
Some recent topics I have been working on are Sequential decision making in healthcare (decision fatigue and path dependency, read more here), Intertemporal prosocial behavior (short review paper and outlook), the Psychology of cost perception in health policy (read more here and here), and the Influence of voting on envious behavior.
Publications
2026
A randomized controlled experimental medicine study of ghrelin on loss aversion in healthy volunteers
Neuroscience Applied, Vol. 5, Article 106873
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nsa.2025.106873
2025
No evidence for decision fatigue using large-scale field data from healthcare
Communications Psychology, Vol. 3, Article 33
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00207-8
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)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x241258195
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)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x241263001
Intertemporal prosocial behavior: a review and research agenda
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 15, Article 1359447
(Article, review/survey)
https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1359447
