By Professor Ben Newell

Journal articles

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

Xie B; Brewer MB; Hayes BK; McDonald RI; Newell BR, 2019, 'Predicting climate change risk perception and willingness to act', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 65, pp. 101331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101331

Le Pelley ME; Newell BR; Nosofsky RM, 2019, 'Deferred Feedback Does Not Dissociate Implicit and Explicit Category-Learning Systems: Commentary on Smith et al. (2014)', Psychological Science, 30, pp. 1403 - 1409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619841264

Liang G; Newell B; Rakow T; Yechiam E, 2019, 'Further investigations of how rare disaster information affects risk taking: A registered replication report', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 1411 - 1417, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01594-w

Krefeld-Schwalb A; Donkin C; Newell BR; Scheibehenne B, 2019, 'Empirical comparison of the adjustable spanner and the adaptive toolbox models of choice', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 45, pp. 1151 - 1165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000641

Güney Ş; Newell BR, 2019, 'An exploratory investigation of the impact of evaluation context on ambiguity aversion', Judgment and Decision Making, 14, pp. 335 - 348

Schulze C; James G; Koehler DJ; Newell BR, 2019, 'Probability matching does not decrease under cognitive load: A preregistered failure to replicate', Memory and Cognition, 47, pp. 511 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0888-3

Smithson M; Priest D; Shou Y; Newell BR, 2019, 'Ambiguity and conflict aversion when uncertainty is in the outcomes', Frontiers in Psychology, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00539

Camilleri AR; Newell BR, 2019, 'Better calibration when predicting from experience (rather than description)', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 150, pp. 62 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.10.006

Fiedler K; Schott M; Kareev Y; Avrahami J; Ackerman R; Goldsmith M; Mata A; Ferreira MB; Newell BR; Pantazi M, 2019, 'Metacognitive Myopia in Change Detection: A Collective Approach to Overcome a Persistent Anomaly', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000751

Szollosi A; Liang G; Konstantinidis E; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2019, 'Simultaneous Underweighting and Overestimation of Rare Events: Unpacking a Paradox', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000603

Dey S; Newell BR; Moulds ML, 2019, 'The relative effects of abstract versus concrete processing on proactivity in depression.', Behavior Therapy, 50, pp. 325 - 339

Konstantinidis E; Taylor RT; Newell BR, 2018, 'Magnitude and incentives: revisiting the overweighting of extreme events in risky decisions from experience', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, pp. 1925 - 1933, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1383-8

Dobrescu LI; Fan X; Bateman H; Newell BR; Ortmann A; Thorp S, 2018, 'Retirement Savings: A Tale of Decisions and Defaults', Economic Journal, 128, pp. 1047 - 1094, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12447

Luckman A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2018, 'Can a single model account for both risky choices and inter-temporal choices? Testing the assumptions underlying models of risky inter-temporal choice', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, pp. 785 - 792, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1330-8

O’donnell M; Nelson LD; Ackermann E; Aczel B; Akhtar A; Aldrovandi S; Alshaif N; Andringa R; Aveyard M; Babincak P; Balatekin N; Baldwin SA; Banik G; Baskin E; Bell R; Bialobrzeska O; Birt AR; Boot WR; Braithwaite SR; Briggs JC; Buchner A; Budd D; Budzik K; Bullens L; Bulley RL; Cannon PR; Cantarero K; Cesario J; Chambers S; Chartier CR; Chekroun P; Chong C; Cleeremans A; Coary SP; Coulthard J; Cramwinckel FM; Denson TF; Díaz-Lago M; Didonato TE; Drummond A; Eberlen J; Ebersbach T; Edlund JE; Finnigan KM; Fisher J; Frankowska N; García-Sánchez E; Golom FD; Graves AJ; Greenberg K; Hanioti M; Hansen HA; Harder JA; Harrell ER; Hartanto A; Inzlicht M; Johnson DJ; Karpinski A; Keller VN; Klein O; Koppel L; Krahmer E; Lantian A; Larson MJ; Le´gal JB; Lucas RE; Lynott D; Magaldino CM; Massar K; McBee MT; McLatchie N; Melia N; Mensink MC; Mieth L; Moore-Berg S; Neeser G; Newell BR; Noordewier MK; Özdogru AA; Pantazi M; Parzuchowski M; Peters K; Philipp MC; Pollmann MMH; Rentzelas P; Rodríguez-Bailón R; Röer JP; Ropovik I; Roque NA; Rueda C; Rutjens BT; Sackett K; Salamon J; Sánchez-Rodríguez Á; Saunders B; Schaafsma J; Schulte-Mecklenbeck M; Shanks DR; Sherman MF; Steele KM, 2018, 'Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998)', Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, pp. 268 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691618755704

Kary A; Newell BR; Hayes BK, 2018, 'What makes for compelling science? Evidential diversity in the evaluation of scientific arguments', Global Environmental Change, 49, pp. 186 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.01.004

Newell BR; Le Pelley ME, 2018, 'Perceptual but not complex moral judgments can be biased by exploiting the dynamics of eye-gaze', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, pp. 409 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000386

Hayes BK; Ngo J; Hawkins GE; Newell BR, 2018, 'Causal explanation improves judgment under uncertainty, but rarely in a Bayesian way', Memory and Cognition, 46, pp. 112 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-017-0750-z

Dobrescu I; Bateman H; Deetlefs J; Ortmann A; Newell BR; Thorp S; Deetlefs A, 2018, 'Engagement with Retirement Savings: It’s a Matter of Trust', Journal of Consumer Affairs, 53, pp. 917 - 945, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joca.12208

Dey S; Joormann J; Moulds ML; Newell BR, 2018, 'The relative effects of abstract versus concrete rumination on the experience of post-decisional regret.', Behaviour Research and Therapy

Dey S; Newell BR; Moulds MICHELLE, 2018, 'The relative effects of abstract versus concrete thinking on decision-making in depression.', Behaviour Research and Therapy

Luckman A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2017, 'People Wait Longer when the Alternative is Risky: The Relation Between Preferences in Risky and Inter-temporal Choice', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, pp. 1078 - 1092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2025

Schulze C; van Ravenzwaaij D; Newell BR, 2017, 'Hold it! the influence of lingering rewards on choice diversification and persistence', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 43, pp. 1752 - 1767, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000407

Kary A; Hawkins GE; Hayes BK; Newell BR, 2017, 'A Bayesian latent mixture model approach to assessing performance in stock-flow reasoning', Judgment and Decision Making, 12, pp. 430 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500006471

Kalish ML; Newell BR; Dunn JC, 2017, 'More is generally better: Higher working memory capacity does not impair perceptual category learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 43, pp. 503 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000323

Newell BR; Shaw B, 2017, 'Priming Risky Choice: Do Risk Preferences Need Inferences?', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, pp. 332 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1945

Bolton A; Newell BR, 2017, 'Applying behavioural science to government policy: Finding the ‘Goldilocks Zone’', Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy

Bolton A; Newell BR; Newell B; Bolton AJ, 2017, 'Finding the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ is both a challenge and an opportunity: A reply to Soon', Behavioural Economics for Policy

Martire KA; Edmond G; Navarro D; Newell B, 2017, 'On the likelihood of “encapsulating all uncertainty”', Science and Justice, 57, pp. 76 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2016.10.004

Field SM; Wagenmakers EJ; Newell BR; Zeelenberg R; van Ravenzwaaij D, 2016, 'Two Bayesian tests of the GLOMO^sys model', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, pp. e81 - e95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000067

Schulze C; Newell BR, 2016, 'Taking the easy way out? Increasing implementation effort reduces probability maximizing under cognitive load', Memory and Cognition, 44, pp. 806 - 818, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-016-0595-x

Schulze C; Newell BR, 2016, 'More heads choose better than one: Group decision making can eliminate probability matching', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23, pp. 907 - 914, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0949-6

Hayes BK; Hawkins GE; Newell BR, 2016, 'Consider the alternative: The effects of causal knowledge on representing and using alternative hypotheses in judgments under uncertainty', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 42, pp. 723 - 739, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000205

De Zilva D; Newell BR; Mitchell CJ, 2016, 'Multiple context mere exposure: Examining the limits of liking', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, pp. 521 - 534, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1057188

Navarro DJ; Newell BR; Schulze C, 2016, 'Learning and choosing in an uncertain world: An investigation of the explore-exploit dilemma in static and dynamic environments', Cognitive Psychology, 85, pp. 43 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.01.001

Newell BR; Rakow T; Yechiam E; Sambur M, 2016, 'Rare disaster information can increase risk-taking', Nature Climate Change, 6, pp. 158 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2822

Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Newell BR; Ortmann A; Thorp S, 2016, 'As easy as pie: How retirement savers use prescribed investment disclosures', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 121, pp. 60 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.10.020

Bateman H; Ortmann A; Newell BR; Dobrescu ; Thorp S, 2016, 'As easy as pie: How retirement savers use prescribed investment disclosures', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 121, pp. 60 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.10.020

Newell BR; Kary A; Moore C; Gonzalez C, 2016, 'Managing the Budget: Stock-Flow Reasoning and the CO2 Accumulation Problem', Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, pp. 138 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12176

Rakow T; Newell BR; Wright L, 2015, 'Forgone but not forgotten: the effects of partial and full feedback in “harsh” and “kind” environments', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22, pp. 1807 - 1813, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0848-x

McDonald RI; Chai HY; Newell BR, 2015, 'Personal experience and the 'psychological distance' of climate change: An integrative review', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 44, pp. 109 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.10.003

Bonner C; Jansen J; Newell BR; Irwig L; Teixeira-Pinto A; Glasziou P; Doust J; McKinn S; McCaffery K, 2015, 'Is the "heart Age" Concept Helpful or Harmful Compared to Absolute Cardiovascular Disease Risk? An Experimental Study', Medical Decision Making, 35, pp. 967 - 978, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989X15597224

Schulze C; Newell BR, 2015, 'Compete, coordinate, and cooperate: How to exploit uncertain environments with social interaction', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, pp. 967 - 981, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000096

Rakow T; Heard CL; Newell BR, 2015, 'Meeting Three Challenges in Risk Communication: Phenomena, Numbers, and Emotions', Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, pp. 147 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2372732215601442

Stewart N; Ungemach C; Harris AJL; Bartels DM; Newell BR; Paolacci G; Chandler J, 2015, 'The average laboratory samples a population of 7,300 amazon mechanical turk workers', Judgment and Decision Making, 10, pp. 479 - 491

Donkin C; Newell BR; Kalish M; Dunn JC; Nosofsky RM, 2015, 'Identifying strategy use in category learning tasks: A case for more diagnostic data and models', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 41, pp. 933 - 948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000083

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