University of New South Wales - School of Psychology - Associate Professor Ben R. Newell

Research Areas: Judgment and decision making, categorisation, and the implicit/explicit distinction in learning and memory.

BSc, Psychology, University of Nottingham
PhD, Psychology, University of New South Wales

Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution

Newell, B.R., & Lee, M.D. (in press). The right tool for the job? Comparing an evidence accumulation and a naïve strategy selection model of decision making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Newell, B.R., Dunn, J.C., & Kalish, M. (in press). The dimensionality of perceptual category learning: A state-trace analysis. Memory & Cognition.
Bonner, C. & Newell B.R. (2010). In conflict with ourselves? An investigation of heuristic and analytic processes in decision making. Memory & Cognition, 38, 186-196.
Rakow, T., & Newell, B.R. (2010). Degrees of Uncertainty: An overview and suggestion for reorienting research on experience-based choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23, 1-14.
Newell, B.R. & Dunn, J.C. (2008). Dimensions in data: Testing psychological models using state-trace analysis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 285-290.
Newell, B.R., Lagnado, D.A. & Shanks, D.R (2007). Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making. Psychology Press: Hove, UK.
Newell, B.R. (2005). Re-visions of rationality? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 11-15.

PSYC 3211: Cognitive Science

Office: Mathews 712
Telephone: +61 2 9385 1606
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Email: ben.newell@unsw.edu.au

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