Positions Held Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Jan 2004 - present Postdoctoral research fellow, Princeton University Sep 2001 - Dec 2003 Education Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, University of Colorado June 2001 M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, University of Colorado May 1997 B.A. (Hon.) in Psychology, University College Dublin, Ireland June 1995 Honors and Awards Province of Trentino Scientific award (€405,000) 2008-2010 National Institute of Aging R21 award ($310,000) 2007-2010 National Institute of Mental Health R03 award ($150,000) 2006-2008 University of Arizona Outstanding Honors Faculty, 2005 University of Arizona Foundation Grant, 2005 University of Arizona Summer Development Grant, 2005 National Institute of Mental Health Predoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2001 University of Colorado Fellowships, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Research Interests My research uses both behavioral and neuroscientific methods to explore the cognitive and neural processes that underlie human judgment and decision-making. Some specific interests include: - Affective and deliberative processes in decision-making - Reward processes in decision-making - Neural dynamics of fairness and cooperation - Decision conflict, risk and uncertainty - Influence of memory representations on human judgment Publications Sanfey, A.G. Expectations and social decision-making : biasing effects of prior knowledge on Ultimatum responses (In Press). Mind & Society. Frank, M.J., Cohen, M.X., Sanfey, A.G. (In Press). Multiple systems in decision-making:  A neurocomputational perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Doll, B.B., Jacobs, W.J., Sanfey, A.G., Frank, M.J. (In Press). Instructional control of reinforcement learning: A behavioral and neurocomputational investigation. Brain Research. Rilling, J.K. & Sanfey, A.G. (In Press). Social interaction. In L. Squire et al. (Eds.) The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier. Van ’t Wout M. & Sanfey, A.G. (2008). Friend or Foe: The effect of implicit trustworthiness judgments in social decision-making. Cognition 108, 796-803. Sanfey, A.G & Dorris, M. (2008). Games in humans and non-human primates: Scanners to single units. In P. Glimcher et al. (Eds.) Neuroeconomics: Decision-Making and the Brain. Academic Press Rilling, J.K., King-Casas, B., Sanfey, A.G. (2008). The neurobiology of social decision-making. Current Directions in Neurobiology 18, 159-165. Pochon, J.B., Riis, J., Sanfey, A.G., Nystrom L.E., Cohen, J.D. (2008) Functional imaging of decision conflict. Journal of Neuroscience 28, 3468-3473. Sanfey, A.G & Chang, L.J. (2008). Multiple systems in decision-making. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1128, 53-62. Marchetti, A., Castelli, I., Sanfey, A.G. (2008). Teoria della Mente e decisione in ambito economico: un contributo empirico. In Antonietti, A., Balconi, M. (Eds). Psicoeconomia – Neuroeconomia. Bologna: il Mulino. Tesch, A.D. & Sanfey, A.G (2008). Models and methods in delay discounting. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1128, 90-94 Sanfey, A.G. (2007). Social decision-making: Insights from Game Theory and Neuroscience. Science 318, 598-602. Sanfey, A.G. (2007). Decision Neuroscience: new directions in studies of judgment and decision-making. Current Directions in Psychological Science 16, 151-155. Harle, K. & Sanfey, A.G. (In Press) Sadness biases social economic decisions in the Ultimatum Game. Emotion. Rilling, J.K. & Sanfey, A.G. (In Press) Decision-making and neuroeconomics: Social interaction. In L. Squire et al. (Eds.) The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier. Scheres, A. & Sanfey, A.G. (2006). Individual differences in decision-making: drive and reward responsiveness affects strategic bargaining in economic games. Behavioral and Brain Functions 2, 35. Sanfey, A.G., Loewenstein, G., Cohen, J.D. & McClure, S.M. (2006). Neuroeconomics: Cross-currents in research on decision-making. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10, 108-116. Hastie, R. & Sanfey, A.G. (2006). Decision making. In E. Smith and S. Kosslyn (Eds.) Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain. Prentice Hall. Van ’t Wout, M., Kahn, R.S., Sanfey, A.G. & Aleman, A. (2006). Affective state and decision-making in the Ultimatum Game, Experimental Brain Research 169, 564-568. Wood, R.M., Rilling J.K., Sanfey, A.G., Bhagwagar, Z. & Rogers,R.D. (2006). The effects of tryptophan depletion on the performance of an iterated Prisoner's game in healthy adults. Neuropsychopharmacology, 1-10. Van ’t Wout, M., Kahn, R.S., Sanfey, A.G. & Aleman, A. (2005). rTMS over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects strategic decision making, NeuroReport 16, 1849-52. Sanfey, A.G., Rilling, J.K., Aronson J.A., Nystrom L.E., Cohen, J.D. (2005). Economic decision-making. In J. Cacciopo and G. Berntson (Eds.) Social Neuroscience. New York, NY: Psychology Press. Sanfey, A.G. & Cohen, J.D. (2004). Is knowing always feeling? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 16709-16710. Sanfey, A.G. (2004). Neural computations of decision utility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 519-521. Rilling, J.K., Sanfey, A.G., Aronson J.A., Nystrom L.E., Cohen, J.D. (2004). Opposing BOLD responses to reciprocated and unreciprocated altruism in putative reward pathways. NeuroReport, 15, 2539-2243. Yeung, N.P. & Sanfey, A.G. (2004). Independent coding of reward magnitude and valence in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 6258-6264. Rilling, J.K., Sanfey, A.G., Aronson J.A., Nystrom L.E., Cohen, J.D. (2004). The neural correlates of theory of mind within interpersonal interactions. NeuroImage, 22, 1694-1703. Sanfey, A.G., Rilling, J.K., Aronson J.A., Nystrom L.E., Cohen, J.D. (2003). The neural basis of economic decision making in the Ultimatum Game. Science, 300, 1755-1758. Sanfey, A.G., Hastie, R., Colvin, M. K., & Grafman, J. (2003). Phineas gauged: Decision-making and the frontal lobes. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1218-1229. Sanfey, A.G. & Hastie, R. (2002). Inter-event relationships and judgment under uncertainty: Structure determines strategy. Memory & Cognition, 30, 921-33. Sanfey, A.G. & Hastie, R. (2000). Judgment and decision making across the adult life span: A tutorial review of psychological research. In D. Park and N. Schwarz (Eds.) Aging and Cognition: A Primer. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press. Sanfey, A. & Hastie, R. (1998). Does evidence presentation format affect judgment? An experimental evaluation of five displays of data for judgments. Psychological Science, 9, 99-103. Invited Colloquia and Conference Talks Feb, 2009. Emotion preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, Tampa, FL Dec, 2008. FIIP VI (keynote), Lisbon, Portugal Dec, 2008. International conference on Neuroeconomics and Neuromanagement (keynote), Zheijang University, China Nov, 2008. NIDA mini-convention, Washington, DC Oct, 2008. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Oct, 2008. Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ Jun 2008, Universia Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy May, 2008. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Feb, 2008. FC Donders Center, Radboud University, Nijmege, The Netherlands Oct, 2007. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA May, 2007. Behavioral Science conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT Apr, 2007. New York University, New York, NY Mar, 2007. Center for Mind and Brain Symposium , Mattarello, Italy Mar, 2007. University of Trento, Trento, Italy Jan, 2007. Emotion and Cognition in Decision-Making workshop (keynote), Rovereto, Italy Jan, 2007. Mind and Brain workshop (keynote), Sapporo, Japan Jul, 2006. Summer School in Neuroeconomics, Stanford University, Palo Alto,CA Jun, 2006. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Jun, 2006. University of Trento, Trento, Italy Feb, 2006. Risk communication symposium, Montauk, NY Feb, 2006. Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, St Louis, MO Nov, 2005. Annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada Aug, 2005. Betty Behrens symposium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. Apr, 2005. Social Cognitive Neuroscience annual meeting, New York, NY. Mar, 2005. Columbia University, New York, NY. Jun, 2004. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Nov, 2003. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Oct, 2003. The University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Feb, 2003. Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Decision Making, Tucson, AZ. Oct, 2002. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Apr, 2002. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Nov, 2001. Annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Orlando, FL. Apr, 2001. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Mar, 2001. Brown University, Providence, RI. Dec, 2000. University College London, London, England. Nov, 2000. Annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, New Orleans, LA. Association Memberships Member of Society for Judgment and Decision Making Member of Organization for Human Brain Mapping Member of Society for Neuroeconomics Member of Cognitive Neuroscience Society CV