Health
Collaborations with Headspace, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the LHD Ketamine Clinic, the Australian Twin Registry, and the International Centre for Responsible Gambling have enabled me to make significant contributions to research on mental health, gambling addiction, obesity, and the genetic determinants of decision-making.
Mental health
- Weinrabe A., Chung H., Tymula A., Tranand J., Hickie I. (2020) Economic Rationality in Young People with Emerging Mood Disorder, Journal of Neuroscience, Economics, and Psychology
Responsible gambling
- Heirene R., Cobb-Clark D., Tymula A., Santos T., and Gainsbury S. (2025) Non Response Bias in Gambling Survey, International Gambling Studies
- Santos T., Heirene R., Cobb-Clark D., Tymula A., Gainsbury S. (2025) Electronic Gaming Machine Consumers’ Understanding of Past & Future Spending: Associations with Risk, Impulsivity, Self-Control, & Problematic Gambling, Journal of Gambling Studies
- Gainsbury S. M., Black N., Blaszczynski A., Callaghan S., Clancey G., Starcevic V., Tymula A. (2020) Reducing Internet gambling harms using behavioural science: A stakeholder framework, Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Addictive Disorders 11:598589
Obesity
- Schurer S., Tymula A., Wang X., Fuller N., and Caterson I. (2024) Impatience and present bias do not determine weight loss in obesity: Evidence from lab-in-field and nationally representative data, under review
- Pastore C., Schurer S., Tymula A., Fuller N, Caterson I. (2023) Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment, Health Economics, 32:2147-2167
Genetic determinants of decision making
- Kettlewell N., Tymula, A. and Yoo H. (2023) The heritability of economic preferences, revision requested from Management Science
- Kettlewell N. and Tymula A. (2025) Heritability of different types of overconfidence, Journal of the Economic Science Association
- Kettlewell N. and Tymula A. (2024) Heritability across different domains of trust, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 219:549-563
- Kettlewell N. and Tymula A. (2021) The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey, Twin Research and Human Genetics
Education
Thanks to a very talented PhD student Xueting Wang, we collaborated with four high schools in China to better understand impatience and risk taking in adolescence:
- Cheung S. L., Tymula A., Wang X. (2022) Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers, Experimental Economics, 25: 1202–1233
I wrote a collection of papers on risk-taking and impatience in adolescence, some of the findings are summarised in these non-academic publications.
I am particularly fond of our publication in the Frontiers for Young Minds, a journal where children are the reviewers. We wrote this paper for the inaugural issue promoted at the the 2014 USA Science and Engineering Festival. It was featured on the Scientific American Blog Network.
Arts
I collaborated with two iconic arts institutions to better understand motives for giving and educate visitors about their risk-taking.
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
The Marian Koshland Science Museum of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
- created the Life Lab exhibit on decision-making and ageing that was on display May 2012 – September 2018
- Glimcher, P.W. and Tymula, A. (2017) Let the sunshine in? The effects of luminance on economic preferences, choice consistency and dominance violations. PLoS ONE, 12(8): e0181112
Non-Academic Audience Talks
I enjoy sharing my research with non-academic audiences. You could see me present at Outside the Square, Raising the Bar, a couple of podcasts, TV, and radio.
2020 take on COVID-19. The situation around COVID-19 was evolving at an astounding rate. Thinking beyond the physical health ramifications to the mental health, anxiety, communication and sense-making aspects, our panel looked at what’s going on and do their best to make sense of the rapidly shifting series of events. The speakers were:
– Professor Nick Enfield, Department of Linguistics
– Professor Ian Hickie, Brain and Mind Centre
– Dr Claire Hooker, Faculty of Medicine and Health
– Professor Julie Leask, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery
– Professor Agnieszka Tymula, School of Economics
– Professor Annamarie Jagose (Moderator), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
You can now listen to me on the ABC’s RN Drive It’s All Academic show talking about neuroeconomics and decision making here. Enjoy!