Peter D. Kvam

Peter D. Kvam studies how people make decisions, especially how choices unfold over time and how mental processes like evidence accumulation, risk tolerance, and attention shape judgments such as pricing, intertemporal choice (choosing between smaller-sooner vs. larger-later rewards), and procrastination. His work builds mathematical and computational models of cognition to explain these behaviors, often testing them with behavioral experiments and simulation-based methods. This research is relevant to students interested in mathematical psychology, judgment and decision-making, and computational modeling of human behavior.

Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from about 5 papers per year in 2017 to a peak of around 16 in 2025, with some year-to-year fluctuation but an overall upward trend.

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