Research output per year
Research output per year
SE1 1UL
United Kingdom
Judgment and Decision Making (Behavioural Decision Making)
Judgment and decision making: decision making under risk and uncertainty, in particular, decisions from experience; the assessement and communication of risk; decisions in medicine and health; strategies for multiple-cue judgment and choice; probability estimation; statistical reasoning; meta-science, in particular the reporting of methods and data analysis in psychological science.
I am an experienced researcher and educator. I am currently the Editor in Chief of the APA journal Decision. Serving as Deputy Programme Director for BSc Psychology (2015-2025) I have been part of the team that created and led the successful BSc Psychology programme at King's.
I conduct both basic and applied research on judgment and decision making. Much of this research has critically examined the claims of prominent research programmes, addressing topics such as: the nature of simple heuristics for inference and choice; the role unconscious thought in decision making; risky choices made on the basis of prior experience. Most of my applied research examines decisions in the domains of health and medicine, including the assessment and communication of risk. I became an Associate Editor at Thinking & Reasoning in 2012 and left this role to become the Editor in Chief of Decision, the APA research journal for Judgment and Decision Making.
I have been teaching successfully in higher education since the late 1990s, and have received numerous nominations and awards for my teaching. I joined the University of Essex in 2000 as a Teaching Fellow, and worked there until 2015 as a Lecturer (from 2004), then as a Senior Lecturer (from 2007), and as a Reader in Psychology (from 2012). During this time I taught on BSc and MSc Psychology degree programmes, and was module corrdinator for ten separate taught modules spanning all levels of the curriculum. I joined King's College London in 2015 as Deputy Director for the new BSc Psychology degree. Since then, I have led or co-led six undergraduate modules, most of which I was responsible for devising, and supervised numerous final-year research projects. I became a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2014.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Doctor of Philosophy, UCL University College London
Award Date: 1 Jan 2001
Master of Science, UCL University College London
Award Date: 1 Jan 1997
Bachelor of Science, Durham University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1988
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Rakow, T. (Primary Investigator)
1/06/2022 → 30/11/2023
Project: Research
Rakow, T. (Primary Investigator)
GOSH Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
1/04/2017 → 30/09/2018
Project: Research
Rakow, T. (Primary Investigator)
NIHR National Institute For Health & Care Research
1/04/2015 → 30/06/2016
Project: Research
Dommett, E., Rakow, T., Gardner, B. & Nguyen, N. T., King's College London, 6 Jan 2021
DOI: 10.18742/rdm01-690, https://kcl.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Safety_beliefs_and_knowledge_of_cognitive_enhancers_in_UK_university_students/16473939
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