By Professor Ben Newell

Journal articles

O E; Camilleri AR; Newell BR, 2025, 'The Impact of Climate Literacy and Financial Literacy on Consumer Willingness to Decarbonise', Australasian Marketing Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14413582251368421

Watson P; Liu Y; Lee WJ; Lee JE; Newell BR; Hayes BK, 2025, 'Trapped by selective attention: The role of attentional processes in the emergence and prevention of learning traps.', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001565

Konstantinidis E; Dai J; Newell BR, 2024, 'Risk, Time, and Psychological Distance: Does Construal Level Theory Capture the Impact of Delay on Risk Preference?', Journal of Experimental Psychology General, 154, pp. 552 - 573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001647

Embrey JR; Mason A; Newell BR, 2024, 'Too hard, too easy, or just right? The effects of context on effort and boredom aversion', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 31, pp. 2801 - 2810, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02528-x

Bonner C; Taba M; Fajardo MA; Batcup C; Newell BR; Li AX; Mayfield HJ; Lau CL; Litt JCB, 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

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2024, 'Income volatility and saving decisions: Experimental evidence', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 43, pp. 100941, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100941

Ostrovsky T; Newell BR, 2024, 'Verbal Reports as Data Revisited: Using Natural Language Models to Validate Cognitive Models', Decision, 11, pp. 568 - 598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000243

Embrey JR; Li AX; Liew SX; Newell BR, 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

Liang G; Li AX; Newell BR, 2024, 'Trusting an Algorithm Can Be a Tricky and Sticky Thing', Decision, 11, pp. 404 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000229

Batcup C; Breth-Petersen M; Dakin T; Barratt A; McGain F; Newell BR; Pickles K, 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

Liew SX; Embrey JR; Newell BR, 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

Newell BR; Vigouroux S; Greenwell H, 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

Liew SX; Embrey JR; Navarro DJ; Newell BR, 2023, 'Comparing Anticipation and Uncertainty-Penalty Accounts of Noninstrumental Information Seeking', Decision, 10, pp. 247 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000179

Embrey JR; Donkin C; Newell BR, 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

Newell BR; Szollosi A, 2023, 'Is Conviction Narrative Theory a theory of everything or nothing?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002679

Sloane JF; Donkin C; Newell BR; Singh H; Meyer AND, 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

Newell BR, 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

Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Liu J; Newell BR; Thorp S, 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

Raban MZ; Gonzalez G; Nguyen AD; Newell BR; Li L; Seaman KL; Westbrook JI, 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

Mechera-Ostrovsky T; Liew SX; Newell BR, 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

Liang G; Sloane JF; Donkin C; Newell BR, 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

Hotaling JM; Donkin C; Jarvstad A; Newell BR, 2022, 'MEM-EX: An exemplar memory model of decisions from experience', Cognitive Psychology, 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101517

Sloane JF; Newell BR; Liang G; Donkin C, 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

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 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

Wang-Ly N; Bateman H; Dobrescu I; Newell BR; Thorp S, 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

Bolton A; Newell BR; Gandevia S; Peek J; Capdevila EB, 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

Liang G; Rakow T; Yechiam E; Newell BR, 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

Szollosi A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2022, 'Toward Nonprobabilistic Explanations of Learning and Decision-Making', Psychological Review, 130, pp. 546 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000355

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2022, 'Allowing Early Access to Retirement Savings: Lessons from Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3993027

Olschewski S; Newell BR; Oberholzer Y; Scheibehenne B, 2021, 'Valuation and estimation from experience', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34, pp. 729 - 741, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2241

Aczel B; Szaszi B; Nilsonne G; Van Den Akker OR; Albers CJ; Van Assen MA; Bastiaansen JA; Benjamin D; Boehm U; Botvinik-Nezer R; Bringmann LF; Busch NA; Caruyer E; Cataldo AM; Cowan N; Delios A; Van Dongen NN; Donkin C; Van Doorn JB; Dreber A; Dutilh G; Egan GF; Gernsbacher MA; Hoekstra R; Hoffmann S; Holzmeister F; Huber J; Johannesson M; Jonas KJ; Kindel AT; Kirchler M; Kunkels YK; Lindsay DS; Mangin JF; Matzke D; Munafò MR; Newell BR; Nosek BA; Poldrack RA; Ravenzwaaij DV; Rieskamp J; Salganik MJ; Sarafoglou A; Schonberg T; Schweinsberg M; Shanks D; Silberzahn R; Simons DJ; Spellman BA; St-Jean S; Starns JJ; Uhlmann EL; Wicherts J; Wagenmakers EJ, 2021, 'Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies', Elife, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72185

Vanunu Y; Hotaling JM; Le Pelley ME; Newell BR, 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

Bolton A; Gandevia S; Newell BR, 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

Walker AR; Navarro DJ; Newell BR; Beesley T, 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

Newell BR; Moss J, 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

Newell BR; Moss J, 2021, 'Making it Easier to Take Environmental Actions is not Enough: Policymakers Must Also Emphasize Why action is Necessary', Behavioral Science & Policy, 7, pp. 91 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/237946152100700208

Raban M; Gonzalez G; Nguyen A; Li L; Newell B; Westbrook J, 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

Thorp S; Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Newell BR; Ortmann A, 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

Schulze C; Gaissmaier W; Newell BR, 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

Szollosi A; Newell BR, 2020, 'People as Intuitive Scientists: Reconsidering Statistical Explanations of Decision Making', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, pp. 1008 - 1018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.005

Vanunu Y; Hotaling JM; Newell BR, 2020, 'Elucidating the differential impact of extreme-outcomes in perceptual and preferential choice', Cognitive Psychology, 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101274

Aczel B; Szaszi B; Sarafoglou A; Kekecs Z; Kucharský Š; Benjamin D; Chambers CD; Fisher A; Gelman A; Gernsbacher MA; Ioannidis JP; Johnson E; Jonas K; Kousta S; Lilienfeld SO; Lindsay DS; Morey CC; Munafò M; Newell BR; Pashler H; Shanks DR; Simons DJ; Wicherts JM; Albarracin D; Anderson ND; Antonakis J; Arkes HR; Back MD; Banks GC; Beevers C; Bennett AA; Bleidorn W; Boyer TW; Cacciari C; Carter AS; Cesario J; Clifton C; Conroy RM; Cortese M; Cosci F; Cowan N; Crawford J; Crone EA; Curtin J; Engle R; Farrell S; Fearon P; Fichman M; Frankenhuis W; Freund AM; Gaskell MG; Giner-Sorolla R; Green DP; Greene RL; Harlow LL; de la Guardia FH; Isaacowitz D; Kolodner J; Lieberman D; Logan GD; Mendes WB; Moersdorf L; Nyhan B; Pollack J; Sullivan C; Vazire S; Wagenmakers EJ, 2020, 'A consensus-based transparency checklist', Nature Human Behaviour, 4, pp. 4 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6

Luckman A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2020, 'An evaluation and comparison of models of risky intertemporal choice.', Psychological Review, 127, pp. 1097 - 1138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000223

Aczel B; Szaszi B; Sarafoglou A; Kekecs Z; Kucharský Š; Benjamin D; Chambers CD; Fisher A; Gelman A; Gernsbacher MA; Ioannidis JP; Johnson E; Jonas K; Kousta S; Lilienfeld SO; Lindsay DS; Morey CC; Munafò M; Newell BR; Pashler H; Shanks DR; Simons DJ; Wicherts JM; Albarracin D; Anderson ND; Antonakis J; Arkes HR; Back MD; Banks GC; Beevers C; Bennett AA; Bleidorn W; Boyer TW; Cacciari C; Carter AS; Cesario J; Clifton C; Conroy RM; Cortese M; Cosci F; Cowan N; Crawford J; Crone EA; Curtin J; Engle R; Farrell S; Fearon P; Fichman M; Frankenhuis W; Freund AM; Gaskell MG; Giner-Sorolla R; Green DP; Greene RL; Harlow LL; de la Guardia FH; Isaacowitz D; Kolodner J; Lieberman D; Logan GD; Mendes WB; Moersdorf L; Nyhan B; Pollack J; Sullivan C; Vazire S; Wagenmakers EJ, 2020, 'Erratum: Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (Nature human behaviour (2020) 4 1 (4-6))', Nature Human Behaviour, 4, pp. 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0812-2

Fiedler K; Schott M; Ackerman R; Mata A; Ferreira MB; Kareev Y; Avrahami J; Goldsmith M; Newell BR, 2020, 'Metacognitive Myopia in Change Detection: A Collective Approach to Overcome a Persistent Anomaly', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 46, pp. 649 - 668, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000751

Konstantinidis E; van Ravenzwaaij D; Güney S; Newell BR, 2020, 'Now for Sure or Later With a Risk? Modeling Risky Intertemporal Choice as Accumulated Preference', Decision, 7, pp. 91 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000103

Hotaling JM; Navarro DJ; Newell BR, 2020, 'Skilled bandits: Learning to choose in a reactive world.', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000981

Szollosi A; Newell BR, 2020, 'What is the purpose of cognition?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19001626

Wills AJ; Edmunds CER; Le Pelley ME; Milton F; Newell BR; Dwyer DM; Shanks DR, 2019, 'Dissociable learning processes, associative theory, and testimonial reviews: A comment on Smith and Church (2018)', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 1988 - 1993, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01644-3

Hotaling JM; Jarvstad A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2019, 'How to Change the Weight of Rare Events in Decisions From Experience', Psychological Science, 30, pp. 1767 - 1779, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619884324

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