By Professor Ben Newell

Journal articles

Szollosi A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2022, 'Toward Nonprobabilistic Explanations of Learning and Decision-Making', Psychological Review, 130, pp. 546 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000355

Olschewski S; Newell BR; Oberholzer Y; Scheibehenne B, 2021, 'Valuation and estimation from experience', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34, pp. 729 - 741, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2241

Aczel B; Szaszi B; Nilsonne G; Van Den Akker OR; Albers CJ; Van Assen MA; Bastiaansen JA; Benjamin D; Boehm U; Botvinik-Nezer R; Bringmann LF; Busch NA; Caruyer E; Cataldo AM; Cowan N; Delios A; Van Dongen NN; Donkin C; Van Doorn JB; Dreber A; Dutilh G; Egan GF; Gernsbacher MA; Hoekstra R; Hoffmann S; Holzmeister F; Huber J; Johannesson M; Jonas KJ; Kindel AT; Kirchler M; Kunkels YK; Lindsay DS; Mangin JF; Matzke D; Munafò MR; Newell BR; Nosek BA; Poldrack RA; Ravenzwaaij DV; Rieskamp J; Salganik MJ; Sarafoglou A; Schonberg T; Schweinsberg M; Shanks D; Silberzahn R; Simons DJ; Spellman BA; St-Jean S; Starns JJ; Uhlmann EL; Wicherts J; Wagenmakers EJ, 2021, 'Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies', Elife, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72185

Vanunu Y; Hotaling JM; Le Pelley ME; Newell BR, 2021, 'How top-down and bottom-up attention modulate risky choice', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2025646118

Bolton A; Gandevia S; Newell BR, 2021, 'Appropriate responses to potential child abuse: The importance of information quality', Child Abuse and Neglect, 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105062

Walker AR; Navarro DJ; Newell BR; Beesley T, 2021, 'Protection From Uncertainty in the Exploration/Exploitation Trade-Off', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 48, pp. 547 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000883

Newell BR; Moss J, 2021, 'Making it easier to take environmental actions is not enough: Policymakers must also emphasize why action is necessary', Behavioral Science and Policy, 7, pp. 91 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bsp.2021.0015

Raban M; Gonzalez G; Nguyen A; Li L; Newell B; Westbrook J, 2021, 'Reducing antibiotic prescribing using nudges: A systematic review of interventions in primary care', Infection, Disease & Health, 26, pp. S11 - S11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2021.09.037

Thorp S; Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Newell BR; Ortmann A, 2020, 'Flicking the switch: Simplifying disclosure to improve retirement plan choices', Journal of Banking and Finance, 121, pp. 105955, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2020.105955

Schulze C; Gaissmaier W; Newell BR, 2020, 'Maximizing as satisficing: On pattern matching and probability maximizing in groups and individuals', Cognition, 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104382

Szollosi A; Newell BR, 2020, 'People as Intuitive Scientists: Reconsidering Statistical Explanations of Decision Making', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, pp. 1008 - 1018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.005

Vanunu Y; Hotaling JM; Newell BR, 2020, 'Elucidating the differential impact of extreme-outcomes in perceptual and preferential choice', Cognitive Psychology, 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101274

Aczel B; Szaszi B; Sarafoglou A; Kekecs Z; Kucharský Š; Benjamin D; Chambers CD; Fisher A; Gelman A; Gernsbacher MA; Ioannidis JP; Johnson E; Jonas K; Kousta S; Lilienfeld SO; Lindsay DS; Morey CC; Munafò M; Newell BR; Pashler H; Shanks DR; Simons DJ; Wicherts JM; Albarracin D; Anderson ND; Antonakis J; Arkes HR; Back MD; Banks GC; Beevers C; Bennett AA; Bleidorn W; Boyer TW; Cacciari C; Carter AS; Cesario J; Clifton C; Conroy RM; Cortese M; Cosci F; Cowan N; Crawford J; Crone EA; Curtin J; Engle R; Farrell S; Fearon P; Fichman M; Frankenhuis W; Freund AM; Gaskell MG; Giner-Sorolla R; Green DP; Greene RL; Harlow LL; de la Guardia FH; Isaacowitz D; Kolodner J; Lieberman D; Logan GD; Mendes WB; Moersdorf L; Nyhan B; Pollack J; Sullivan C; Vazire S; Wagenmakers EJ, 2020, 'A consensus-based transparency checklist', Nature Human Behaviour, 4, pp. 4 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6

Luckman A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2020, 'An evaluation and comparison of models of risky intertemporal choice.', Psychological Review, 127, pp. 1097 - 1138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000223

Aczel B; Szaszi B; Sarafoglou A; Kekecs Z; Kucharský Š; Benjamin D; Chambers CD; Fisher A; Gelman A; Gernsbacher MA; Ioannidis JP; Johnson E; Jonas K; Kousta S; Lilienfeld SO; Lindsay DS; Morey CC; Munafò M; Newell BR; Pashler H; Shanks DR; Simons DJ; Wicherts JM; Albarracin D; Anderson ND; Antonakis J; Arkes HR; Back MD; Banks GC; Beevers C; Bennett AA; Bleidorn W; Boyer TW; Cacciari C; Carter AS; Cesario J; Clifton C; Conroy RM; Cortese M; Cosci F; Cowan N; Crawford J; Crone EA; Curtin J; Engle R; Farrell S; Fearon P; Fichman M; Frankenhuis W; Freund AM; Gaskell MG; Giner-Sorolla R; Green DP; Greene RL; Harlow LL; de la Guardia FH; Isaacowitz D; Kolodner J; Lieberman D; Logan GD; Mendes WB; Moersdorf L; Nyhan B; Pollack J; Sullivan C; Vazire S; Wagenmakers EJ, 2020, 'Erratum: Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (Nature human behaviour (2020) 4 1 (4-6))', Nature Human Behaviour, 4, pp. 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0812-2

Fiedler K; Schott M; Ackerman R; Mata A; Ferreira MB; Kareev Y; Avrahami J; Goldsmith M; Newell BR, 2020, 'Metacognitive Myopia in Change Detection: A Collective Approach to Overcome a Persistent Anomaly', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 46, pp. 649 - 668, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000751

Konstantinidis E; van Ravenzwaaij D; Güney S; Newell BR, 2020, 'Now for Sure or Later With a Risk? Modeling Risky Intertemporal Choice as Accumulated Preference', Decision, 7, pp. 91 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000103

Hotaling JM; Navarro DJ; Newell BR, 2020, 'Skilled bandits: Learning to choose in a reactive world.', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000981

Szollosi A; Newell BR, 2020, 'What is the purpose of cognition?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19001626

Wills AJ; Edmunds CER; Le Pelley ME; Milton F; Newell BR; Dwyer DM; Shanks DR, 2019, 'Dissociable learning processes, associative theory, and testimonial reviews: A comment on Smith and Church (2018)', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 1988 - 1993, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01644-3

Hotaling JM; Jarvstad A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2019, 'How to Change the Weight of Rare Events in Decisions From Experience', Psychological Science, 30, pp. 1767 - 1779, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619884324

Xie B; Brewer MB; Hayes BK; McDonald RI; Newell BR, 2019, 'Predicting climate change risk perception and willingness to act', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 65, pp. 101331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101331

Le Pelley ME; Newell BR; Nosofsky RM, 2019, 'Deferred Feedback Does Not Dissociate Implicit and Explicit Category-Learning Systems: Commentary on Smith et al. (2014)', Psychological Science, 30, pp. 1403 - 1409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619841264

Liang G; Newell B; Rakow T; Yechiam E, 2019, 'Further investigations of how rare disaster information affects risk taking: A registered replication report', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 1411 - 1417, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01594-w

Krefeld-Schwalb A; Donkin C; Newell BR; Scheibehenne B, 2019, 'Empirical comparison of the adjustable spanner and the adaptive toolbox models of choice', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 45, pp. 1151 - 1165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000641

Güney Ş; Newell BR, 2019, 'An exploratory investigation of the impact of evaluation context on ambiguity aversion', Judgment and Decision Making, 14, pp. 335 - 348

Schulze C; James G; Koehler DJ; Newell BR, 2019, 'Probability matching does not decrease under cognitive load: A preregistered failure to replicate', Memory and Cognition, 47, pp. 511 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0888-3

Smithson M; Priest D; Shou Y; Newell BR, 2019, 'Ambiguity and conflict aversion when uncertainty is in the outcomes', Frontiers in Psychology, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00539

Camilleri AR; Newell BR, 2019, 'Better calibration when predicting from experience (rather than description)', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 150, pp. 62 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.10.006

Szollosi A; Liang G; Konstantinidis E; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2019, 'Simultaneous Underweighting and Overestimation of Rare Events: Unpacking a Paradox', Journal of Experimental Psychology General, 148, pp. 2207 - 2217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000603

Dey S; Newell BR; Moulds ML, 2019, 'The relative effects of abstract versus concrete processing on proactivity in depression.', Behavior Therapy, 50, pp. 325 - 339

Konstantinidis E; Taylor RT; Newell BR, 2018, 'Magnitude and incentives: revisiting the overweighting of extreme events in risky decisions from experience', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, pp. 1925 - 1933, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1383-8

Dobrescu LI; Fan X; Bateman H; Newell BR; Ortmann A; Thorp S, 2018, 'Retirement Savings: A Tale of Decisions and Defaults', Economic Journal, 128, pp. 1047 - 1094, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12447

Luckman A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2018, 'Can a single model account for both risky choices and inter-temporal choices? Testing the assumptions underlying models of risky inter-temporal choice', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, pp. 785 - 792, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1330-8

O’donnell M; Nelson LD; Ackermann E; Aczel B; Akhtar A; Aldrovandi S; Alshaif N; Andringa R; Aveyard M; Babincak P; Balatekin N; Baldwin SA; Banik G; Baskin E; Bell R; Bialobrzeska O; Birt AR; Boot WR; Braithwaite SR; Briggs JC; Buchner A; Budd D; Budzik K; Bullens L; Bulley RL; Cannon PR; Cantarero K; Cesario J; Chambers S; Chartier CR; Chekroun P; Chong C; Cleeremans A; Coary SP; Coulthard J; Cramwinckel FM; Denson TF; Díaz-Lago M; Didonato TE; Drummond A; Eberlen J; Ebersbach T; Edlund JE; Finnigan KM; Fisher J; Frankowska N; García-Sánchez E; Golom FD; Graves AJ; Greenberg K; Hanioti M; Hansen HA; Harder JA; Harrell ER; Hartanto A; Inzlicht M; Johnson DJ; Karpinski A; Keller VN; Klein O; Koppel L; Krahmer E; Lantian A; Larson MJ; Le´gal JB; Lucas RE; Lynott D; Magaldino CM; Massar K; McBee MT; McLatchie N; Melia N; Mensink MC; Mieth L; Moore-Berg S; Neeser G; Newell BR; Noordewier MK; Özdogru AA; Pantazi M; Parzuchowski M; Peters K; Philipp MC; Pollmann MMH; Rentzelas P; Rodríguez-Bailón R; Röer JP; Ropovik I; Roque NA; Rueda C; Rutjens BT; Sackett K; Salamon J; Sánchez-Rodríguez Á; Saunders B; Schaafsma J; Schulte-Mecklenbeck M; Shanks DR; Sherman MF; Steele KM, 2018, 'Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998)', Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, pp. 268 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691618755704

Kary A; Newell BR; Hayes BK, 2018, 'What makes for compelling science? Evidential diversity in the evaluation of scientific arguments', Global Environmental Change, 49, pp. 186 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.01.004

Newell BR; Le Pelley ME, 2018, 'Perceptual but not complex moral judgments can be biased by exploiting the dynamics of eye-gaze', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, pp. 409 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000386

Hayes BK; Ngo J; Hawkins GE; Newell BR, 2018, 'Causal explanation improves judgment under uncertainty, but rarely in a Bayesian way', Memory and Cognition, 46, pp. 112 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-017-0750-z

Dobrescu I; Bateman H; Deetlefs J; Ortmann A; Newell BR; Thorp S; Deetlefs A, 2018, 'Engagement with Retirement Savings: It’s a Matter of Trust', Journal of Consumer Affairs, 53, pp. 917 - 945, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joca.12208

Dey S; Joormann J; Moulds ML; Newell BR, 2018, 'The relative effects of abstract versus concrete rumination on the experience of post-decisional regret.', Behaviour Research and Therapy

Dey S; Newell BR; Moulds MICHELLE, 2018, 'The relative effects of abstract versus concrete thinking on decision-making in depression.', Behaviour Research and Therapy

Luckman A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2017, 'People Wait Longer when the Alternative is Risky: The Relation Between Preferences in Risky and Inter-temporal Choice', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, pp. 1078 - 1092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2025

Schulze C; van Ravenzwaaij D; Newell BR, 2017, 'Hold it! the influence of lingering rewards on choice diversification and persistence', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 43, pp. 1752 - 1767, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000407

Kary A; Hawkins GE; Hayes BK; Newell BR, 2017, 'A Bayesian latent mixture model approach to assessing performance in stock-flow reasoning', Judgment and Decision Making, 12, pp. 430 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500006471

Kalish ML; Newell BR; Dunn JC, 2017, 'More is generally better: Higher working memory capacity does not impair perceptual category learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 43, pp. 503 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000323

Newell BR; Shaw B, 2017, 'Priming Risky Choice: Do Risk Preferences Need Inferences?', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, pp. 332 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1945

Bolton A; Newell BR, 2017, 'Applying behavioural science to government policy: Finding the ‘Goldilocks Zone’', Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy

Bolton A; Newell BR; Newell B; Bolton AJ, 2017, 'Finding the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ is both a challenge and an opportunity: A reply to Soon', Behavioural Economics for Policy

Martire KA; Edmond G; Navarro D; Newell B, 2017, 'On the likelihood of “encapsulating all uncertainty”', Science and Justice, 57, pp. 76 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2016.10.004

Field SM; Wagenmakers EJ; Newell BR; Zeelenberg R; van Ravenzwaaij D, 2016, 'Two Bayesian tests of the GLOMOsys model', Journal of Experimental Psychology General, 145, pp. e81 - e95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000067

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