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Behavioural Science Group

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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.

NIBS

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.

Virtual Reality and Psychophysiology Laboratories

Researchers have access to Physiological measurement facilities and Virtual Reality VR laboratory along with specialist support. Projects cover a wide range of topics including, for example, the use of VR in education, road safety and simulation, and the physiological measurement of reactions to vehicle behaviour and the detection of deception.

Driver Research

The Behavioural Science Team work together to research road safety, distracted driving, transport choices and Autonomous Vehicles. The team have worked with the Police, Local Authorities, Jaguar Land Rover and Road Safety Charities in relation to driving research.

Warwick Modelling Behaviour Lab

Warwick Gambling Lab (WaGR)

Group Members
Dr Elisabeth Blagrove Professor Gordon Brown
Dr Michaela Gummerum Professor Thomas Hills
Dr Emmanouil Konstantinidis Dr Melina Kunar
Professor Elliot Ludvig Dr Maria Robinson
Dr Noorin Rodenhurst (RF) Professor Adam Sanborn
Dr Mikhail Spektor Dr Pete Trimmer
Professor Kim Wade Dr Christian Tsvetkov
Dr Lukasz Walasek Professor Derrick Watson
Dr Wenjia Joyce Zhao  
Honorary
Dr Johanna Falben
Dr Ula Cartwright-Finch
Dr Sam Johnson
Dr Nicholas Lange
Dr Owain Ritchie
Dr Pablo León Villagrá
Dr Jianqiao Zhu
Research Students
Erika Aparicio Isabelle Barrett Pip Brown
Alexandra Bulbuc Andrew Camara Lucas Castillo
Peiqi Chen Naomi Chopra Alexandra DeLaTrobe
Lily Erner Xiaomu Guo Prisca S Han
Danyang Hu Zhihong Huang Dasol Jeong
Halleyson Li Kuangheng Li Yunxiao Li
Yitong Lin Zinan Lin Emily Peters
Marc Skelton Zepeng Sun Zhongtian Wang
Mengran Wang Thomas White Haijiang Yan
Yuqi Ye Jenny Zhou  

Scientific impact at Warwick

Paper out 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

K Wade

Maximising the Value of Witness Evidence

Confronting the unreliability of the human memory

M Kunar and D Watson

Improving Road Safety Education and Driver Training

Raising awareness of the need to pay attention on the road