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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.

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.

Latest 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

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