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Books
2023, Open Minded Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind, MIT Press
,2022, Straight choices: The psychology of decision making, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003289890
,2015, Straight choices: The psychology of decision making: Second edition, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315727080
,2010, Straight Choices, Psychology Press, Hove, UK and New York, USA
,2007, Straight choices: The psychology of decision making, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203960837
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Designing an Informatics Infrastructure for a National Aged Care Medication Roundtable', in , pp. 404 - 408, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI230996
,2017, 'Decision making under risk: An experience-based perspective', in International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, pp. 502 - 522
,2017, 'The anatomy of an unconscious decision', in Radman Z (ed.), Before Consciousness: In Search of Fundamentals of Mind, Imprint Academic, pp. 174 - 191
,2016, 'Decision making', in An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology, pp. 197 - 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315732954-15
,2016, 'Probability Matching', in Pohl R (ed.), Cognitive Illusions, pp. 62 - 78
,2013, 'Judgment under Uncertainty', in Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 602 - 615
,2011, 'Empirical Tests of a Fast-and-Frugal Heuristic: Not Everyone "Takes-the-Best"', in Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744282.003.0018
,2011, 'Chapter six Systems of Category Learning Fact or Fantasy?', in Advances in Research and Theory, Elsevier, pp. 167 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-385527-5.00006-1
,2011, 'Systems of category learning: Fact or fantasy?', in Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory, Academic Press Inc, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 167 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385527-5.00006-1
,2007, 'Perspectives on the `tools` of decision-making', in Roberts MJ (ed.), Integrating the Mind, Psychology Press, East Sussex, U.K. and New York, USA, pp. 131 - 151
,2005, 'Fractals: A resonance between art and nature', in Emmer M (ed.), Mathematics & Culture II - Visual perfection: Mathematics and Creativity, Springer Publishing Company, Berlin, pp. 53 - 64
,Journal articles
2024, 'Using health literacy principles to improve understanding of evolving evidence in health emergencies: Optimisation and evaluation of a COVID-19 vaccination risk-benefit calculator', Vaccine, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126296
,2024, 'Income volatility and saving decisions: Experimental evidence', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100941
,2024, 'The effect of noninstrumental information on reward learning', Memory and Cognition, 52, pp. 1210 - 1227, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01537-4
,2024, 'Trusting an Algorithm Can Be a Tricky and Sticky Thing', Decision, 11, pp. 404 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000229
,2024, 'Too hard, too easy, or just right? The effects of context on effort and boredom aversion', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02528-x
,2024, 'Verbal Reports as Data Revisited: Using Natural Language Models to Validate Cognitive Models', Decision, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000243
,2023, 'Behavioural change interventions encouraging clinicians to reduce carbon emissions in clinical activity: a systematic review', BMC Health Services Research, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09370-2
,2023, 'The non-unitary nature of information preference', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30, pp. 1966 - 1974, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02243-5
,2023, 'Expectations, opportunities, and awareness: A case for combining i- and s-frame interventions', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000997
,2023, 'Comparing Anticipation and Uncertainty-Penalty Accounts of Noninstrumental Information Seeking', Decision, 10, pp. 247 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000179
,2023, 'Is all mental effort equal? The role of cognitive demand-type on effort avoidance', Cognition, 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105440
,2023, 'Is Conviction Narrative Theory a theory of everything or nothing?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002679
,2023, 'Managing Interruptions to Improve Diagnostic Decision-Making: Strategies and Recommended Research Agenda', Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38, pp. 1526 - 1531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-08019-w
,2023, 'Strengthening psychological science for optimal climate communication and action policies', One Earth, 6, pp. 341 - 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.010
,2023, 'Determinants of early-access to retirement savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2023.100441
,2023, 'Nudge interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in primary care: A systematic review', BMJ Open, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062688
,2023, 'The role of risk, regret, and rejoice in non-instrumental information seeking', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2294
,2022, 'Adapting to the algorithm: how accuracy comparisons promote the use of a decision aid', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00364-y
,2022, 'MEM-EX: An exemplar memory model of decisions from experience', Cognitive Psychology, 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101517
,2022, 'The Mazing Race: Effects of Interruptions and Benefits of Interruption Lags in a Novel Maze-Like Decision-Making Paradigm', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29, pp. 654 - 675, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000446
,2022, 'Allowing early access to retirement savings: Lessons from Australia', Economic Analysis and Policy, 75, pp. 716 - 733, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.07.002
,2022, 'Defaults, disclosures, advice and calculators: One size does not fit all', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 35, pp. 100690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2022.100690
,2022, 'Applying behavioural insights to child protection: venturing beyond the low-hanging fruit', Behavioural Public Policy, 6, pp. 439 - 463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2019.12
,2022, 'The day after the disaster: Risk-taking following large-and small-scale disasters in a microworld', Judgment and Decision Making, 17, pp. 513 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500003569
,2022, 'Toward Nonprobabilistic Explanations of Learning and Decision-Making', Psychological Review, 130, pp. 546 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000355
,2021, 'Valuation and estimation from experience', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34, pp. 729 - 741, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2241
,2021, 'Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies', eLife, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72185
,2021, 'How top-down and bottom-up attention modulate risky choice', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2025646118
,2021, 'Appropriate responses to potential child abuse: The importance of information quality', Child Abuse and Neglect, 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105062
,2021, 'Protection From Uncertainty in the Exploration/Exploitation Trade-Off', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 48, pp. 547 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000883
,2021, 'Making it easier to take environmental actions is not enough: Policymakers must also emphasize why action is necessary', Behavioral Science and Policy, 7, pp. 91 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2021.0015
,2021, 'Reducing antibiotic prescribing using nudges: A systematic review of interventions in primary care', Infection, Disease & Health, 26, pp. S11 - S11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2021.09.037
,2020, 'Flicking the switch: Simplifying disclosure to improve retirement plan choices', Journal of Banking and Finance, 121, pp. 105955, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2020.105955
,2020, 'Maximizing as satisficing: On pattern matching and probability maximizing in groups and individuals', Cognition, 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104382
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