Yun-Yen Yang is a second year PhD student at the Rutgers University-Newark in psychology and a current Fulbrighter from Taiwan. Her main research interest centres on how people make decisions under difference circumstances. Her current research focuses on the role of perceived control in decision making. How different factors of perceived control influence peoples’ decision? Furthermore, how these factors influence their behavior performance? How the positive or neglective emotion affect the perception of control? She completed her master’s degree in Neuroscience and bachelor’s in biomedical science. Her master thesis focused on how people integrate different type of information to make economic decision.