Outline of work: Children, adolescents, morality, fairness, prosociality, emotions and emotion regulation, group decisions, risky decisions, friendship, cross-cultural psychology Interests: Broadly speaking, I am interested in the development of decision-making, which I approach from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and applied perspective. My research examines the social, cognitive, and emotional factors underlying decision-making in different domains (e.g., moral decisions, risky decisions) and cultures in children, adolescents, and adults and in individuals and groups. I also investigate how members from special populations (e.g., offenders, people with disabilities) make decisions and how we can support people making good decisions in online environments or concerning their health. I am happy to consider supervising PhD and MSc research degrees in any of the above or related areas. Please email me at michaela.gummerum@warwick.ac.uk for more information. Co-Editor, British Journal of Developmental Psychology British Psychological Society Developmental Section Committee Visiting Professor, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Contact Details

Representative Publications:

• Gummerum, M., & López-Pérez, B. (2020). “You shouldn’t feel that way!” Children’s and adolescents’ interpersonal emotion regulation of victims’ and violators’ feelings after social exclusion. Cognitive Development.
• Gummerum, M., López-Pérez, B., Van Dijk, E., Van Dillen, L. F. (2020). When Punishment is Emotion-Driven: Children’s, Adolescents’ and Adults’ Costly Punishment of Unfair Allocations. Social Development, 29, 126-142.
• Francis, K. B., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., Howard, I. S., & Terbeck, S. (2019). Alcohol, empathy, and morality: Acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making. Psychopharmacology, 236, 3477-3496.
• Ruggeri, A., Luan, S., Keller, M., & Gummerum, M. (2018). The influence of adult and peer models in children’s and adolescents’ sharing decisions. Child Development, 89, 1589-1598.
• White, C., Gummerum, M., & Hanoch, Y. (2018). The framing of online risk: Differences in young adults’ and adolescents’ representations of risky online gambles. Decision, 119-128.
• López-Pérez, B., Howells, L., & Gummerum, M. (2017). Cruel to be Kind: Factors Underlying Altruistic Interpersonal Affect Worsening. Psychological Science, 28, 862-871.
• Gummerum, M., Van Dillen, L. F., Van Dijk, E., & López-Pérez, B. (2016). Costly Third-Party Interventions: The Role of Anger and Attention Focus in Punishment of the Perpetrator and Compensation of the Victim. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 65, 94-104.
• Gummerum, M., & Chu, M. T. (2014). Outcomes and intentions in children’s, adolescents’ and adults’ second- and third-party punishment behaviour. Cognition, 133, 97-103.
• Gummerum, M., Leman, P. J., & Hollins, T. S. (2014). How do children share information in groups? Developmental Psychology, 50, 2105-2114

 

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Supervisor to:
Pip Brown
Danyang Hu