I am an Assistant Professor of Agribusiness and Experimental Economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University. 

In general, my research focuses on understanding the behavioral foundations of economic decision-making.  Check my CV for the list of peer-reviewed publications.

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What is the benefit of biometric data?  This video demonstrates how biometric data, such as visual attention (fixation points, circles in the video) and emotional feeling measures, can be used to understand the cognitive and affective processes behind financial decisions.  In this asset market study, participants select an asset, and the market subsequently reveals its return.  In this particular example, the decision-maker experiences a loss and exhibits sadness.  High pupil size indicates a high level of attention. My lab utilized Tobii Pro Fusion eye-tracking, iMotions, and Affdex facial expression analysis software to obtain these attention and mood measurements.  Read the paper here!

Select Working Papers:

7. Seeing Through Different Lenses: Partisanship and Inflation Expectations. (with Zahra Murad) [link] 

6. Dynamic Food Decision (In)Consistency: Evidence from the Field. (with Pathmanathan Sivashankar) [manuscript available upon request] 

5. ChatGPT and the Labor Market: Unraveling the Effect of AI Discussions on Students’ Earnings Expectations. [link]

4. Climbing the Social Ladder: How Rankings Shape Financial Risk-Taking. (with Wanqi Liang and Fariz Huseynov) [link]

3. Optimistic Price Expectations. (with Charles Martinez and Mykel Taylor) [link]

2. The Role of Recency Bias and Price Salience in Insurance Take-up Decisions. (with Chris Boyer, Charles Martinez, Andrew Griffith, and Karen DeLong) [link]

1. Temptation and Choice Inconsistency. (with Ghufran Ahmad, Marco A. Palma, and Rodolfo Nayga) [link]

 My email: szh0158 at auburn.edu; My Twitter handle: @huseynovecon