Our Research
Our research aims to have a real world impact, branching into a wide range of subjects associated with behavioural science.
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data
Professor Neil Stewart and Dr Naomi Muggleton investigated the association between gambling as a proportion of monthly income and 31 financial social and health outcomes in a recent paper published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Is there a link between air pollution and impaired memory?
What is the effect of air pollution on our wellbeing? This investigation used results from 34,000 randomly sampled English citizens across 318 geographical areas.
Happiness is greater in more scenic locations
Being in an area of great natural beauty has long been considered to bring us a greater sense of happiness. But why? What are the characteristics of these environments that lift our mood?
Data Science Lab
We use approaches from the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering to discover the insights that Big Data offers into human behaviour and decision making.
Decision Research at Warwick (DR@W)Link opens in a new window
DR@W is an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers from across the University of Warwick with shared interests in decision making research and policy. We hold weekly seminars focusing on new and unpublished works which are open to all.
Our Laboratories
We have lab facilities to support independent and interactive decision making experiments (singly or in groups of up to 50 participants); observational studies; focus groups and eye-movement research.