We focus on the behavioural science central to human welfare, particularly:

• economic and consumer psychology;
• judgement and decision making;
• psychology and the law;
• health related behaviour; and
• risky and intertemporal decision making.

We use laboratory and field experiments, large longitudinal datasets, and mathematical modelling to apply the core principles of cognitive psychology to the important decisions in our everyday lives.

The group is part of the University Global Research Priority Behaviour, Brain & Society programme, with members from Economics, Mathematics, and Warwick Business School. We have joint weekly research meetings and a weekly seminar programme as part of the DR@W laboratory.

 

Key areas of research

Value A £900k Leverhulme grant supports a collaboration between Psychology and Warwick Business School investigating the behavioural economics of value. We are exploring how value is constructed and the implications for public policy.	The Network for Integrated Behavioural Science The network is an interdisciplinary collaboration including psychologists and economists. We test theories of individual and group behaviour and apply research to industry and public policy.
Social norms Using agent-based models we explore how social norms determine aggregate behaviour of whole populations.	Behavioural operations in policing In collaboration with Law and Warwick Business School we are exploring the decision making of front-line police officers, applying mathematical models of memory, judgment and decision making.

Research Labs

The Centre for Operational Police Research - COPR

Launched in 2014, the Centre for Operational Policing Research (COPR) is a new interdisciplinary research centre bringing together the departments of Warwick Business School (WBS), Law and Psychology. With the aim of developing a research agenda that is both intellectually innovative and has clear policy and practice implications within policing, we have built a network at chief officer level of 12 police forces across England and Wales.

Driving Simulator

Psychology Driving Similator is a collaborative facility with WMG.

Group Members

Dr Elisabeth Blagrove	Professor Gordon Brown
Dr Johanna Falben	Dr Michaela Gummerum
Professor Thomas Hills	Dr Stefanie Keupp
Dr Emmanouil Konstantinidis	Dr Melina Kunar
Dr Nicholas Lange	Professor Elliot Ludvig
Dr Alice Mason	Owain Ritchie
Professor Adam Sanborn	Sidney Sherborne (RA)
Dr Mikhail Spektor	Dr Jake Spicer
Aidan Tee (RA)	Dr Pete Trimmer
Professor Kim Wade	Dr Lukasz Walasek
Professor Derrick Watson	Dr Wenjia Joyce Zhao

Honorary

Dr Ula Cartwright-Finch

Dr Sam Johnson

Dr Simon Myers

Dr Pablo León Villagrá

Dr Henrik Singmann

Research Students

Erika Aparicio	Isabelle Barrett	Pip Brown
Lucas Castillo	Naomi Chopra	Alexandra DeLaTrobe
Michael Hattersley	Prisca S Han	Danyang Hu
Yu-Chun Huang	Zhihong Huang	Dasol Jeong
Halleyson Li	Yunxiao Li	Eugene Malthouse
Emily Peters	Marc Skelton	Alexandra Surdina
Simon van-Baal	Mengran Wang	Finn Wort
Jokie Xu	Haijiang Yan	Yuqi Ye
Weize Zhao

Scientific impact at Warwick

New paper out today in @BPPjournal : "Evaluation of the 'take time to think' safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study". We show that this ubiquitous warning message does not credibly alter gambling in an online roulette task. Read more here

Maximising the Value of Witness Evidence

Confronting the unreliability of the human memory

Improving Road Safety Education and Driver Training

Raising awareness of the need to pay attention on the road