Research Profile

Job Title

Associate Professor

Department

Psychology

L.Walasek@warwick.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Dr Lukasz Walasek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology with expertise in behavioural science. His main area of research concerns human judgment and decision making. In his research, Dr Walasek also applies insights from data science and natural language processing to study how people make everyday choices that involve risk and uncertainty.

Biography

Dr Lukasz Walasek completed his BSc in Psychosocial Sciences at UEA in Norwich. He then studied at the University of Essex, completing an MSc in Psychology and obtaining a PhD in the same subject. After four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, Dr. Walasek joined WMG as an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Psychology group. Since 2020, Dr Walasek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Warwick.

Alba, Charles, Walasek, Lukasz, Spektor, Mikhail S., 2024. Attention-driven imitation in consumer reviews. Decision
Bhatia, Sudeep, Walasek, Lukasz, 2023. Predicting implicit attitudes with natural language data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (25)
Brown, G. D. A., Walasek, Lukasz, Mullett, Timothy L., Quispe-Torreblanca, Edika G., Fincher, Corey L., Kosinski, Michal, Stillwell, David, 2023. Political attitudes and disease threat : regional pathogen stress is associated with conservative ideology only for older individuals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Nickson, David, Meyer, Caroline, Walasek, Lukasz, Toro, Carla T., 2023. Predicting depression using electronic health records : a systematic review. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Nickson, David, Singmann, Henrik, Meyer, Caroline, Toro, Carla T., Walasek, Lukasz, 2023. Replicability and reproducibility of predictive models for diagnosis of depression among young adults using Electronic Health Records. BMC Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, 7
van Baal, S. T., Hohwy, J., Verdejo-García, A., Konstantinidis, Emmanouil, Walasek, Lukasz, 2023. Fenneman, Frankenhuis, and Todd?s (2022) review of formal impulsivity models : implications for theory and measures of impulsivity. Psychological Bulletin, 149 (11-12), pp. 746-756
Gandhi, Natasha, Meyer, Caroline, Bogdanski, Piotr, Walasek, Lukasz, 2023. Computational analysis of superfood representations in news media. Journal of Food Products Marketing, 29 (8-9), pp. 270-290
Walasek, Lukasz, Brown, Gordon D. A., 2023. Incomparability and incommensurability in choice : no common currency of value?. Perspectives on Psychological Science
'Gandhi, Natasha, 'Zou, Wanling, 'Meyer, Caroline, 'Bhatia, Sudeep, 'Walasek, Lukasz, 2022. 'Computational methods for predicting and understanding food judgment. Psychological Science, 33 (4), pp. 579-594
'van Baal, Simon, 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Hohwy, Jakob, 2022. 'Modelling pandemic behaviour using an economic multiplayer game. Scientific Reports, 12 (1)
'Patel, Chloe, 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Karasouli, Eleni, 'Meyer, Caroline, 2022. 'Content and validity of claims made about food parenting practices in United Kingdom online news articles. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (9)
'Wort, Finnian, 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Brown, Gordon D. A., 2022. 'Rank-based alternatives to mean-based ensemble models of satisfaction with earnings : comment on Putnam-Farr and Morewedge (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology : General
'van Baal, Simon, 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Karanfilovska, Daniela, 'Cheng, Allen C., 'Hohwy, Jakob, 2022. 'Risk perception, illusory superiority and personal responsibility during COVID-19 : an experimental study of attitudes to staying home. British Journal of Psychology, 113 (3), pp. 608-629
'Whiley, Lilith A., 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Juanchich, Marie, 2022. 'Contributions to reducing online gender harassment : social re-norming and appealing to empathy as tried-and-failed techniques. Feminism & Psychology
'Newall, Philip W. S., 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, 2022. 'How best to improve upon return-to-player information in gambling? A comparison of two approaches in an Australian. Experimental Results
Patel, Krishane, Moukhtarian, Talar Rita, Russell, Sean, Daly, Guy, Walasek, Lukasz, Tang, Nicole K. Y., Toro, Carla T., Meyer, Caroline, 2022. Digital cognitive behavioural therapy intervention in the workplace : study protocol for a feasibility randomised waitlist-controlled trial to improve employee mental well-being, engagement and productivity. BMJ Open, 12 (12)
Tang, Nicole K. Y., McEnery, Katharine A. M., Chandler, Laura, Toro, Carla T., Walasek, Lukasz, Friend, Hannah, Gu, Sai, Singh, Swaran P., Meyer, Caroline, 2022. Pandemic and student mental health : mental health symptoms among university students and young adults after the first cycle of lockdown in the UK. BJPsych Open, 8 (4)
Muggleton, Naomi K., Trendl, Anna, Walasek, Lukasz, Leake, David, Gathergood, John, Stewart, Neil, 2022. Workplace inequality is associated with status-signalling expenditure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (15)
Walker-Clarke, Aimee, Walasek, Lukasz, Meyer, Caroline, 2022. Psychosocial factors influencing the eating behaviours of older adults : a systematic review. Ageing Research Reviews, 77
Newall, Philip W. S., Weiss-Cohen, Leonardo, Singmann, Henrik, Walasek, Lukasz, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, 2022. Impact of the ?when the fun stops, stop? safer gambling message on online gambling behaviour : a randomised online experimental study. The Lancet Public Health, 7 (5), pp. E437-E446
Moukhtarian, Talarrita, Patel, K., Toro, Carla T., Russel, S., Daley, G., Walasek, Lukasz, Tang, Nicole K. Y., Meyer, Caroline, 2022. Effects of a hybrid digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia and Emotion Regulation in the workplace (SLEEP) : study protocol for a randomised waitlist-control trial. BMJ Open, 12 (7)
Newall, Philip W. S., Walasek, Lukasz, Vázquez Kiesel, Rebecca, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, Meyer, Caroline, 2021. Request-a-bet sports betting products indicate patterns of bettor preference and bookmaker profits. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 10 (3), pp. 381-387
Newall, Philip W. S., Russell, Alex M. T., Sharman, Steve, Walasek, Lukasz, 2021. Recollected usage of legal youth gambling products : comparisons between adult gamblers and non-gamblers in the UK and Australia. Addictive Behaviors, 114
Newall, Philip W. S., Walasek, Lukasz, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, 2021. Percentage and currency framing of house-edge gambling warning labels. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 19, pp. 1931-1938
Newall, P. W. S., Cassidy, R., Walasek, Lukasz, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, Meyer, Caroline, 2021. Who uses custom sports betting products?. Addiction Research & Theory, 29 (2), pp. 148-154
Lemola, Sakari, Gkiouleka, Anna, Read, Brieze, Realo, Anu, Walasek, Lukasz, Tang, Nicole K. Y., Elliott, Mark T., 2021. Can a ?rewards-for-exercise app? increase physical activity, subjective well-being and sleep quality? An open-label single-arm trial among university staff with low to moderate physical activity levels. BMC Public Health, 21 (1)
Walasek, Lukasz, Stewart, Neil, 2021. You cannot accurately estimate an individual?s loss aversion using an accept-reject task. Decision, 8 (1), pp. 2-15
Newall, Philip W. S., Walasek, Lukasz, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, 2021. Risk communication improvements for gambling : house-edge information and volatility statements. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36 (4), pp. 358-363
Achtypi, Elena, Ashby, Nathaniel J. S., Brown, Gordon D. A., Walasek, Lukasz, Yechiam, Eldad, 2021. The endowment effect and beliefs about the market. Decision, 8 (1), pp. 16-35
Walasek, Lukasz, Mullett, Timothy L., Stewart, Neil, 2021. Acceptance of mixed gambles is sensitive to the range of gains and losses experienced, and estimates of lambda (?) are not a reliable measure of loss aversion : reply to André and De Langhe. Journal of Experimental Psychology : General, 150 (12), pp. 2666-2670
Mosenhauer, Moritz, Newall, Philip W. S., Walasek, Lukasz, 2021. The stock market as a casino : associations between stock market trading frequency and problem gambling. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 10 (3), pp. 683-689
Zendle, David, Walasek, Lukasz, Cairns, Paul, Meyer, Rachel, Drummond, Aaron, 2021. Links between problem gambling and spending on booster packs in collectible card games : a conceptual replication of research on loot boxes. PLoS One, 16 (4)
'Bhatia, Sudeep, 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Slovic, Paul, 'Kunreuther, Howard, 2020. 'The more who die, the less we care : evidence from natural language analysis of online news articles and social media posts. Risk Analysis, 41 (1), pp. 179-203
Liew, Tim, Goodwin, Robin, Walasek, Lukasz, 2020. Voting patterns, revoking Article 50 and antidepressant trends in England following the Brexit referendum. Social Science & Medicine, 255
Ooi, Jinnie, Michael, John, Lemola, Sakari, Butterfill, Stephen, Siew, Cynthia S Q, Walasek, Lukasz, 2020. Interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder traits : a social media perspective. Scientific Reports, 10 (1)
Zhao, J. W., Walasek, Lukasz, Bhatia, S., 2020. Psychological mechanisms of loss aversion : a drift-diffusion decomposition. Cognitive Psychology, 123
Newall, Philip W. S., Walasek, Lukasz, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, 2020. Equivalent gambling warning labels are perceived differently. Addiction, 115 (9), pp. 1762-1767
Michael, John, Gutoreva, Alina, Lee, Michele H., Tan, Peng Ning, Bruce, Eleanor M., Székely, M., Ankush, Thobhani A, Sakaguchi, Hiroaki, Walasek, Lukasz, Ludvig, E., 2020. Decision-makers use social information to update their preferences?but choose for others as they do for themselves. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33 (3), pp. 270-286
Newall, Philip W. S., Russell, Alex M. T., Sharman, Steve, Walasek, Lukasz, 2020. Associations between recalled use of legal UK youth gambling products and adult disordered gambling. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9 (3), pp. 863-868
Newall W. S., Philip, Walasek, Lukasz, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, Rockloff, Matthew J., 2020. House-edge information yields lower subjective chances of winning than equivalent return-to-player percentages : new evidence from support forum participants. Journal of Gambling Issues, 45, pp. 166-172
Bhatia, Sudeep, Mellers, Barbara, Walasek, Lukasz, 2019. Affective responses to uncertain real-world outcomes : sentiment change on Twitter. PLoS One, 14 (2)
Clohessy, Sophie, Walasek, Lukasz, Meyer, Caroline, 2019. Factors influencing employees' eating behaviours in the office-based workplace : a systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 20 (12), pp. 1771-1780
McCaig, Duncan, Elliott, Mark T., Siew, Cynthia S.Q., Walasek, Lukasz, Meyer, Caroline, 2019. Profiling commenters on mental health-related online forums : a methodological example focusing on eating disorder-related commenters. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6 (4)
Walasek, Lukasz, Brown, Gordon D. A., Ovens, Gordon D., 2019. Subjective well-being and valuation of future health states : discrepancies between anticipated and experienced life satisfaction. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 49 (12), pp. 746-754
Walasek, Lukasz, Juanchich, Marie, Sirota, Miroslav, 2019. Adaptive cooperation in the face of social exclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 82, pp. 35-46
Newall, Philip, Thobhani, Ankush, Walasek, Lukasz, Meyer, Caroline, 2019. Live-odds gambling advertising and consumer protection. PLoS One, 14 (6)
Walasek, Lukasz, Bhatia, Sudeep, 2019. Association and response accuracy in the wild. Memory & Cognition, 47, pp. 292-298
Walasek, Lukasz, Stewart, Neil, 2019. Context dependent sensitivity to losses : range and skew manipulations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45 (6), pp. 957-968
Sirota, Miroslav, Juanchich, Marie, Petrova, Dafina, Garcia-Retamero, Rocio, Walasek, Lukasz, Bhatia, Sudeep, 2018. Health professionals prefer to communicate risk-related numerical information using ?1-in-X? ratios. Medical Decision Making, 38 (3), pp. 366-376
McCaig, Duncan, Bhatia, Sudeep, Elliott, Mark T., Walasek, Lukasz, Meyer, Caroline, 2018. Text-mining as a methodology to assess eating disorder-relevant factors : comparing mentions of fitness tracking technology across online communities. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 51 (7), pp. 647-655
Juanchich, Marie, Walasek, Lukasz, Sirota, Miroslav, 2018. Decision-makers are resilient in the face of social exclusion. British Journal of Psychology, 109 (3), pp. 604-630
McCaig, Duncan, Bhatia, Sudeep, Elliott, Mark T., Walasek, Lukasz, Meyer, Caroline, 2018. Text-mining as a methodology to assess eating disorder-relevant factors: Comparing mentions of fitness tracking technology across online communities. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 51 (7), pp. 647-655
Adam, Zakiyya, Walasek, Lukasz, Meyer, Caroline, 2018. Workforce commuting and subjective well-being. Travel Behaviour and Society, 13, pp. 183-196
Bhatia, Sudeep, Goodwin, G., Walasek, Lukasz, 2018. Trait associations for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in news media : a computational analysis. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9 (2), pp. 123-130
Walasek, Lukasz, Yu, Erica C., Lagnado, David A., 2018. Endowment effect despite the odds. Thinking & Reasoning, 24 (1), pp. 79-96
Walasek, Lukasz, Bhatia, Sudeep, Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), 2018. Positional goods and the social rank hypothesis : income inequality affects online chatter about high and low status brands on Twitter. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 28 (1), pp. 138-148
Walasek, Lukasz, Rakow, Tim, Matthews, William J., 2017. When does construction enhance product value? Investigating the combined effects of object assembly and ownership on valuation. Journal of behavioral decision making, 30 (2), pp. 144-156
Walasek, Lukasz, 2016. Commentary : effects of age and initial risk perception on balloon analog risk task: the mediating role of processing speed and need for cognitive closure. Frontiers in Psychology, 7
Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), Fincher, Corey L., Walasek, Lukasz, 2016. Personality, parasites, political attitudes, and cooperation : a model of how infection prevalence influences openness and social group formation. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8 (1), pp. 98-117
Walasek, Lukasz, Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), 2016. Income inequality, income, and internet searches for status goods : a cross-national study of the association between inequality and well-being.. Social Indicators Research, 129 (3), pp. 1001-1014
Bhatia, Sudeep, Walasek, Lukasz, 2016. Event construal and temporal distance in natural language. Cognition, 152, pp. 1-8
Ashby, N. J. S., Glöckner, A., Walasek, Lukasz, 2015. The effect of consumer ratings and attentional allocation on product valuations. Judgment and Decision Making, 10 (12), pp. 172-184
Walasek, Lukasz, Stewart, Neil, 2015. How to make loss aversion disappear and reverse : tests of the decision by sampling origin of loss aversion. Journal of Experimental Psychology : General, 144 (1), pp. 7-11
Walasek, Lukasz, Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), 2015. Income inequality and status seeking : searching for positional goods in unequal US states. Psychological Science, 26 (4), pp. 527-533
Walasek, Lukasz, Matthews, William J., Rakow, Tim, 2015. The need to belong and the value of belongings : does ostracism change the subjective value of personal possessions?. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 58, pp. 195-204
Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), Fincher, Corey L., Walasek, Lukasz, 2015. Personality, parasites, attitudes and cooperation : a model of how infection prevalence influences ideology and social group formation. Topics in Cognitive Science
Walasek, Lukasz, Wright, Rebecca J., Rakow, Tim, 2014. Ownership status and the representation of assets of uncertain value : The Balloon Endowment Risk Task (BERT). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 27 (5), pp. 419-432

'Brown, Gordon D. A., 'Walasek, Lukasz, 2021. 'Models of deliberate ignorance in individual choice. In Deliberate ignorance : choosing not to know, MIT Press, pp. 121-138

Newall, Philip, Allami, Youssef, Andrade, Maira, Ayton, Peter, Baker-Frampton, Rosalind, Bennett, Daniel, Browne, Matthew, Bunn, Christopher, Bush-Evans, Reece, Chen, Sonia, Collard, Sharon, De Jans, Steffi, Derevensky, Jeffrey, Dowling, Nicki A., Dymond, Simon, Froude, Andree, Goyder, Elizabeth, Heirene, Robert M., Hing, Nerilee, Hudders, Liselot et al (Select to open full list), 2023.

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Newall, Philip, Allami, Youssef, Andrade, Maira, Ayton, Peter, Baker-Frampton, Rosalind, Bennett, Daniel, Browne, Matthew, Bunn, Christopher, Bush-Evans, Reece, Chen, Sonia, Collard, Sharon, De Jans, Steffi, Derevensky, Jeffrey, Dowling, Nicki A., Dymond, Simon, Froude, Andree, Goyder, Elizabeth, Heirene, Robert M., Hing, Nerilee, Hudders, Liselot, Hunt, Kate, James, Richard J. E., Li, En, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew, Marionneau, Virve, McGrane, Ellen, Merkouris, Stephanie S., Orford, Jim, Parrado-González, Alberto, Pryce, Robert, Rockloff, Matthew, Romild, Ulla, Rossi, Raffaello, Russell, Alex M. T., Singmann, Henrik, Smit Quosai, Trudy, Stark, Sasha, Suomi, Aino, Swanton, Thomas B., Talberg, Niri, Thoma, Volker, Torrance, Jamie, Tulloch, Catherine, van Holst, Ruth J., Walasek, Lukasz, Wardle, Heather, West, Jane, Wheaton, Jamie, Xiao, Leon Y., Young, Matthew M., Bellringer, Maria, Sharman, Steve, Roberts, Amanda

No evidence of harm? implies no evidence of safety : framing the lack of causal evidence in gambling advertising research. Addiction, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
'Toro, Carla T., 'Jackson, Tabitha, 'Payne, Agatha S., 'Walasek, Lukasz, 'Russell, Sean, 'Daly, Guy, 'Waller, Glenn, 'Meyer, Caroline, 2022. 'A feasibility study of the delivery of online brief cognitive?behavioral therapy (CBT?T) for eating disorder pathology in the workplace. International Journal of Eating Disorders, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 723-730
Hurley-Wallace, A., Moukhtarian, Talarrita, Patel, K., Toro, Carla T., Russel, S., Daley, G., Walasek, Lukasz, Tang, Nicole K. Y., Meyer, Caroline, 2022. Process evaluation protocol for the SLEEP study : a hybrid digital CBT-I intervention for working people with insomnia. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
'Stewart, Neil, 'Walasek, Lukasz, 2017. 'How to make loss aversion disappear and reverse : tests of the decision by sampling origin of loss aversion. University of Warwick, Warwick Business School

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