By Professor Ben Newell

Journal articles

Ghasemi O; Paas KHW; Bradley GL; Ransom CA; Deshpande S; Newell BR, 2026, 'Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence', npj Climate Action, 5, pp. 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44168-026-00405-y

Ghasemi O; Malavasi M; Ransom CA; Newell BR, 2026, 'A decade of weather anomalies and natural disasters and their influence on environmental beliefs and actions across Australia', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.102932

Liang G; Hawkins GE; Newell BR, 2026, 'Need Second-hand Advice? The Timing of When People Seek Algorithmic Recommendations', Computational Brain and Behavior, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42113-026-00306-7

Ghasemi O; Ghane-Ezabadi A; Hojjat R; Afshin Mahjoub M; Arastouy Irani T; Gholampour E; Solhirad M; Newell BR, 2026, 'People are aware of the impact of defaults and use them strategically', Judgment and Decision Making, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2026.10046

Newell BR; Bateman H; Dobrescu L; Embrey J; Nian R; Thorp S, 2025, 'Undefined benefit: Projections and anchors as guides to retirement decumulation', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2025.101113

Schulze C; Aka A; Bartels DM; Bucher SF; Embrey JR; Gureckis TM; Häubl G; Ho MK; Krajbich I; Moore AK; Oettingen G; Ongchoco JDK; Oprea R; Reinholtz N; Newell BR, 2025, 'A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29, pp. 827 - 839, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.04.004

Ghasemi O; Cologna V; Mede NG; Stanley SK; Strahm N; Ross R; Alfano M; Kerr JR; Marques MD; Berger S; Besley JC; Brick C; Joubert M; Maibach E; Mihelj S; Newell BR; Oreskes N; Schäfer MS, 2025, 'Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add1f9

Szollosi A; Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2025, 'Nudges for people who think', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 32, pp. 1131 - 1141, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02613-1

Bovingdon B; Cheesman P; Grant D; Joseph P; Michael A; Moffitt S; Mortlock T; Mullins G; Newell BR; Papas M, 2025, 'Climate risk and response: Generating an industry-informed, future-focused, research agenda', Australian Journal of Management, 50, pp. 291 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03128962251326088

Liu Y; Newell BR; Lee JE; Hayes BK, 2025, 'Examining the Relationship Between Early Experience, Selective Attention, and the Formation of Learning Traps', Cognitive Science, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70070

Ghasemi O; Harris AJL; Newell BR, 2025, 'From preference shifts to information leaks: Examining Individuals' sensitivity to information leakage in the framing effect', Cognition, 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106087

Vanunu Y; Newell BR, 2025, 'The impact of sampling bias on preferences for skewed distributions in decisions from experience', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418336122

Embrey JR; Mason A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2025, 'On-Task Errors Drive Effort Avoidance More Than Opportunity Costs', Journal of Experimental Psychology General, 154, pp. 1916 - 1938, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001752

Neal T; Newell BR; Pitman A, 2025, 'Reconsidering the macroeconomic damage of severe warming', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adbd58

Thoma AI; Newell BR; Schulze C, 2025, 'Emerging Adaptivity in Probability Learning: How Young Minds and the Environment Interact', Journal of Experimental Psychology General, 154, pp. 1523 - 1544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001747

Ghasemi O; Malavasi M; Ransom C; Newell B, 2025, 'Ten Years of Extreme Weather Events and Their Influence on Climate Beliefs and Behaviours Across Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-14756

Hurlstone MJ; White B; Newell BR, 2025, 'Threshold uncertainty, early warning signals and the prevention of dangerous climate change', Royal Society Open Science, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240425

Osborn Popp PJ; Newell BR; Bartels DM; Gureckis TM, 2025, 'Can Cognitive Discovery Be Incentivized With Money?', Journal of Experimental Psychology General, 154, pp. 1025 - 1037, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001682

Newell B; Ghasemi O, 2025, 'Evaluating the Impact of Climate Risk Scores on Property Purchase Decisions', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13476

Ghasemi O; Almasi M; Khaki M; Fallahi F; Solhirad M; Newell BR, 2025, 'Exposure to individual climate solutions does not reduce support for systemic solutions: a cross-cultural study in Australia and Iran', Behavioural Public Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2025.10021

Mason A; Szollosi A; Newell BR, 2025, 'Learning the Lie of the Land: How People Construct Mental Representations of Distributions', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 51, pp. 515 - 525, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001402

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

Szollosi A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2023, 'Toward nonprobabilistic explanations of learning and decision-making.', Psychological Review, 130, pp. 546 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000355

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

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

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