Behavioural Science Group
We focus on the behavioural science central to human welfare, particularly:
- economic and consumer psychology;
- judgement and decision making;
- psychology and the law;
- health related behaviour; and
- risky and intertemporal decision making.
We use laboratory and field experiments, large longitudinal datasets, and mathematical modelling to apply the core principles of cognitive psychology to the important decisions in our everyday lives.
The group is part of the University Global Research Priority Behaviour, Brain & Society programme, with members from Economics, Mathematics, and Warwick Business School. We have joint weekly research meetings and a weekly seminar programme as part of the DR@W laboratory.
Key areas of research
ValueA £900k Leverhulme grant supports a collaboration between Psychology and Warwick Business School investigating the behavioural economics of value. We are exploring how value is constructed and the implications for public policy. |
The Network for Integrated Behavioural ScienceThe network is an interdisciplinary collaboration including psychologists and economists. We test theories of individual and group behaviour and apply research to industry and public policy.
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Social normsUsing agent-based models we explore how social norms determine aggregate behaviour of whole populations. |
Behavioural operations in policingIn collaboration with Law and Warwick Business School we are exploring the decision making of front-line police officers, applying mathematical models of memory, judgment and decision making. |
Research Labs
The Centre for Operational Police Research - COPR
Launched in 2014, the Centre for Operational Policing Research (COPR) is a new interdisciplinary research centre bringing together the departments of Warwick Business School (WBS), Law and Psychology. With the aim of developing a research agenda that is both intellectually innovative and has clear policy and practice implications within policing, we have built a network at chief officer level of 12 police forces across England and Wales.
Virtual Reality and Psychophysiology Laboratories
Researchers have access to Physiological measurement facilities and Virtual Reality VR laboratory along with specialist support. Projects cover a wide range of topics including, for example, the use of VR in education, road safety and simulation, and the physiological measurement of reactions to vehicle behaviour and the detection of deception.
Driver Research
The Behavioural Science Team work together to research road safety, distracted driving, transport choices and Autonomous Vehicles. The team have worked with the Police, Local Authorities, Jaguar Land Rover and Road Safety Charities in relation to driving research.
Group Members
| Dr Elisabeth Blagrove | Professor Gordon Brown |
| Dr Michaela Gummerum | Dr Michael Hattersley |
| Professor Thomas Hills | Dr Emmanouil Konstantinidis |
| Dr Melina Kunar | Professor Elliot Ludvig |
| Dr Stella Qian | Dr Owain Ritchie |
| Dr Maria Robinson | Professor Adam Sanborn |
| Dr Sidney Sherborne | Dr Mikhail Spektor |
| Dr Jake Spicer | Aidan Tee (RA) |
| Dr Pete Trimmer | Dr Christian Tsvetkov |
| Professor Kim Wade | Dr Lukasz Walasek |
| Professor Derrick Watson | Finnian Wort (RA) |
| Dr Wenjia Joyce Zhao |
Honorary
| Dr Johanna Falben |
| Dr Ula Cartwright-Finch |
| Dr Sam Johnson |
| Dr Stefanie Keupp |
| Dr Nicholas Lange |
| Dr Simon Myers |
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Dr Pablo León Villagrá |
| Dr Henrik Singmann |
Research Students
| Erika Aparicio | Isabelle Barrett | Pip Brown |
| Lucas Castillo | Naomi Chopra | Alexandra DeLaTrobe |
| Xiaomu Guo | Prisca S Han | Danyang Hu |
| Zhihong Huang | Dasol Jeong | Halleyson Li |
| Kuangheng Li | Yunxiao Li | Yitong Lin |
| Zinan Lin | Eugene Malthouse | Emily Peters |
| Marc Skelton | Zepeng Sun | Mengran Wang |
| Thomas White | Jokie Xu | Haijiang Yan |
| Yuqi Ye | Weize Zhao | Jenny Zhou |
Scientific impact at Warwick
Paper out in @BPPjournal : "Evaluation of the 'take time to think' safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study". We show that this ubiquitous warning message does not credibly alter gambling in an online roulette task. Read more here
Maximising the Value of Witness Evidence
Confronting the unreliability of the human memory
Improving Road Safety Education and Driver Training
Raising awareness of the need to pay attention on the road