By Professor Ben Newell

Journal articles

Ghasemi O; Cologna V; Mede NG; Stanley SK; Strahm N; Ross R; Alfano M; Kerr JR; Marques MD; Berger S; Besley JC; Brick C; Joubert M; Maibach E; Mihelj S; Newell BR; Oreskes N; Schäfer MS, 2025, 'Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add1f9

Szollosi A; Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2025, 'Nudges for people who think', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 32, pp. 1131 - 1141, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02613-1

Bovingdon B; Cheesman P; Grant D; Joseph P; Michael A; Moffitt S; Mortlock T; Mullins G; Newell BR; Papas M, 2025, 'Climate risk and response: Generating an industry-informed, future-focused, research agenda', Australian Journal of Management, 50, pp. 291 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03128962251326088

Vanunu Y; Newell BR, 2025, 'The impact of sampling bias on preferences for skewed distributions in decisions from experience', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418336122

Thoma AI; Newell BR; Schulze C, 2025, 'Emerging Adaptivity in Probability Learning: How Young Minds and the Environment Interact', Journal of Experimental Psychology General, 154, pp. 1523 - 1544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001747

Hurlstone MJ; White B; Newell BR, 2025, 'Threshold uncertainty, early warning signals and the prevention of dangerous climate change', Royal Society Open Science, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240425

Schulze C; Aka A; Bartels DM; Bucher SF; Embrey JR; Gureckis TM; Häubl G; Ho MK; Krajbich I; Moore AK; Oettingen G; Ongchoco JDK; Oprea R; Reinholtz N; Newell BR, 2025, 'A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.04.004

Mason A; Szollosi A; Newell BR, 2025, 'Learning the Lie of the Land: How People Construct Mental Representations of Distributions', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 51, pp. 515 - 525, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001402

Embrey JR; Mason A; Newell BR, 2024, 'Too hard, too easy, or just right? The effects of context on effort and boredom aversion', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 31, pp. 2801 - 2810, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02528-x

Bonner C; Taba M; Fajardo MA; Batcup C; Newell BR; Li AX; Mayfield HJ; Lau CL; Litt JCB, 2024, 'Using health literacy principles to improve understanding of evolving evidence in health emergencies: Optimisation and evaluation of a COVID-19 vaccination risk-benefit calculator', Vaccine, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126296

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2024, 'Income volatility and saving decisions: Experimental evidence', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100941

Ostrovsky T; Newell BR, 2024, 'Verbal Reports as Data Revisited: Using Natural Language Models to Validate Cognitive Models', Decision, 11, pp. 568 - 598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000243

Embrey JR; Li AX; Liew SX; Newell BR, 2024, 'The effect of noninstrumental information on reward learning', Memory and Cognition, 52, pp. 1210 - 1227, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01537-4

Liang G; Li AX; Newell BR, 2024, 'Trusting an Algorithm Can Be a Tricky and Sticky Thing', Decision, 11, pp. 404 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000229

Batcup C; Breth-Petersen M; Dakin T; Barratt A; McGain F; Newell BR; Pickles K, 2023, 'Behavioural change interventions encouraging clinicians to reduce carbon emissions in clinical activity: a systematic review', BMC Health Services Research, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09370-2

Liew SX; Embrey JR; Newell BR, 2023, 'The non-unitary nature of information preference', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30, pp. 1966 - 1974, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02243-5

Newell BR; Vigouroux S; Greenwell H, 2023, 'Expectations, opportunities, and awareness: A case for combining i- and s-frame interventions', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000997

Liew SX; Embrey JR; Navarro DJ; Newell BR, 2023, 'Comparing Anticipation and Uncertainty-Penalty Accounts of Noninstrumental Information Seeking', Decision, 10, pp. 247 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000179

Embrey JR; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2023, 'Is all mental effort equal? The role of cognitive demand-type on effort avoidance', Cognition, 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105440

Newell BR; Szollosi A, 2023, 'Is Conviction Narrative Theory a theory of everything or nothing?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002679

Sloane JF; Donkin C; Newell BR; Singh H; Meyer AND, 2023, 'Managing Interruptions to Improve Diagnostic Decision-Making: Strategies and Recommended Research Agenda', Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38, pp. 1526 - 1531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-08019-w

Newell BR, 2023, 'Strengthening psychological science for optimal climate communication and action policies', One Earth, 6, pp. 341 - 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.010

Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Liu J; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2023, 'Determinants of early-access to retirement savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2023.100441

Raban MZ; Gonzalez G; Nguyen AD; Newell BR; Li L; Seaman KL; Westbrook JI, 2023, 'Nudge interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in primary care: A systematic review', BMJ Open, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062688

Mechera-Ostrovsky T; Liew SX; Newell BR, 2023, 'The role of risk, regret, and rejoice in non-instrumental information seeking', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2294

Liang G; Sloane JF; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2022, 'Adapting to the algorithm: how accuracy comparisons promote the use of a decision aid', Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00364-y

Hotaling JM; Donkin C; Jarvstad A; Newell BR, 2022, 'MEM-EX: An exemplar memory model of decisions from experience', Cognitive Psychology, 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101517

Sloane JF; Newell BR; Liang G; Donkin C, 2022, 'The Mazing Race: Effects of Interruptions and Benefits of Interruption Lags in a Novel Maze-Like Decision-Making Paradigm', Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 29, pp. 654 - 675, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000446

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2022, 'Allowing early access to retirement savings: Lessons from Australia', Economic Analysis and Policy, 75, pp. 716 - 733, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.07.002

Wang-Ly N; Bateman H; Dobrescu I; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2022, 'Defaults, disclosures, advice and calculators: One size does not fit all', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 35, pp. 100690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2022.100690

Bolton A; Newell BR; Gandevia S; Peek J; Capdevila EB, 2022, 'Applying behavioural insights to child protection: venturing beyond the low-hanging fruit', Behavioural Public Policy, 6, pp. 439 - 463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2019.12

Liang G; Rakow T; Yechiam E; Newell BR, 2022, 'The day after the disaster: Risk-taking following large-and small-scale disasters in a microworld', Judgment and Decision Making, 17, pp. 513 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500003569

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

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