Research Interests: Judgment and decision-making, subjective well-being, income inequality, valuation, natural language processing, context effects. Personal Home Page Contact Details NEW: PhD Fellowship in Behavioural Science

Representative Publications:

• Bhatia, S., & Walasek, L. (in press). Association and response accuracy in the wild. Memory & Cognition, 1-7.
• Walasek, L., & Stewart, N. (in press). Context dependent sensitivity to losses: Range and skew manipulations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
• Bhatia, S., Goodwin, G. P., & Walasek, L. (2018). Trait associations for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in news media: A computational analysis. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(2), 123-130.
• Walasek, L., Bhatia, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (2017). 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), 138-148.
• Walasek, L., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Income inequality and status seeking. Searching for positional goods in unequal U.S. states. Psychological Science, 35, 1-7.
• Walasek, L., & Stewart, N. (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), 7-11.

 

Supervisor to:

• Natasha Gandhi
• Sophie Clohessy
• Aimee Walker-Clarke
• Zakiyya Adam 
• Duncan McCaig
• Elisabeth Titis
• Simon van Baal

Postdoctoral fellow:
Philip Newall