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 Behavioural Science 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.

Group Members

Dr Elisabeth Blagrove		Professor Gordon Brown
Dr Michaela Gummerum		Professor Thomas Hills
Dr Stefanie Keupp		Dr Emmanouil Konstantinidis
Dr Melina Kunar		Dr Nicholas Lange
Professor Elliot Ludvig		Dr Alice Mason
Professor Adam Sanborn		Dr Henrik Singmann
Dr Jake Spicer		Dr Joakim Sundh
Dr Pete Trimmer		Dr Kim Wade
Dr Lukasz Walasek		Professor Derrick Watson
Dr Jianqiao Zhu

Research Assistants and Research Students

Hessah Alshaalan
Alina Gutoreva
Isabelle Barrett
Alexandra DeLaTrobe
Michael Hattersly
Yu-Chun Huang
Luke Hodson
Thomas Kelly
Pablo Leon Villagra
Owain Ritchie
Harriet Rowthorn
Shayan Shaikh
Sidney Sherborne
Alexandra Surdina
Mengran Wang
Finn Wort