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 Michaela Gummerum		Professor Thomas Hills
Dr Sam Johnson		Dr Stefanie Keupp
Dr Emmanouil Konstantinidis		Dr Melina Kunar
Dr Nicholas Lange		Professor Elliot Ludvig
Dr Alice Mason		Professor Adam Sanborn
Dr Jake Spicer		Dr Pete Trimmer
Professor Kim Wade		Dr Lukasz Walasek
Professor Derrick Watson		Dr Jianqiao Zhu

Research Assistants and Research Students

Hessah Alshaalan
Erika Aparicio
Isabelle Barrett
Pip Brown
Lucas Castillo
Alexandra DeLaTrobe
Johanna Falben (RA)
Michael Hattersly
Danyang Hu
Yu-Chun Huang
Zhihong Huang
Thomas Kelly
Halleyson Li
Yunxiao Li
Eugene Malthouse
Owain Ritchie (RA)
Shayan Shaikh
Sidney Sherborne
Marc Skelton
Emily Spearing
Alexandra Surdina
Simon van-Baal
Mengran Wang
Finn Wort
Yuqi Ye
Weize Zhao

Scientific impact at Warwick

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