Selcuk Onay

Selcuk Onay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo.

His research interests are in behavioural and experimental economics, judgement and decision making, intertemporal choice, time perception, as well as decision-making under risk, uncertainty and ambiguity.

Apart from UWaterloo, Professor Onay is affiliated with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He has contributed to several publications such as “The Effect of Temporal Distance on Attitudes towards Ambiguity”, “Goal Attainment as a Resource: The Cushion effect in Risky Choice above a Goal”, and “Intertemporal Choice under Timing Uncertainty: An Experimental Approach”.

• Judgment and Decision-making, Intertemporal Choice, Decision-making under risk and uncertainty, Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics, Time Perception

Research interests: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Decision Making

Refereeing activities: Ad-hoc referee for Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Theory and Decision

• 2007, Doctorate Management, INSEAD, France

• 2000, Master's Economics and Statistics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

• 1998, Bachelor's Mathematics, Koc University, Turkey

• MSCI 211 - Organizational Behaviour
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023
• MSCI 263 - Managerial Economics
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• MSCI 607 - Applied Economics for Management
  • Taught in 2024
• MSCI 752 - Behavioural Decision-making
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• MSE 263 - Managerial Economics
  • Taught in 2025, 2026
• MSE 607 - Applied Economics for Management
  • Taught in 2025, 2026
• MSE 752 - Behavioural Decision-making
  • Taught in 2025, 2026

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• Onay, Selcuk and La-ornual, Dolchai and Öncüler, Ayse, The effect of temporal distance on attitudes toward imprecise probabilities and imprecise outcomes, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 362, 2013

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• Jeffrey, Scott A., Onay, Selcuk, and Larrick, Richard P., Goal Attainment as a Resource: The Cushion effect in Risky Choice above a Goal, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 191, 2010

• Onculer, Ayse and Onay, Selcuk, How Do We Evaluate Future Gambles? Experimental Evidence on Path Dependency in Risky Intertemporal Choice, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 280, 2009

• Onay, Selçuk and Öncüler, Ayse, Intertemporal choice under timing risk: An experimental approach, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 99, 2007