Jiang Mao

Biography 

Jiang Mao is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Cognitive and Behavioral Economics Initiative (CBEI) with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). She works with Professor Michael Woodford on the cognitive processes underlying economic decision making. Coming from a psychology and neuroscience background with a focus on perceptual decision making, she now combines human behavior experiments and Bayesian inference models to study how noisy representations of the decision situation lead to systematic biases in economic behaviors.