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.