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Ben R. Newell

Senior Lecturer

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

Academic Career:

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

Research Fellowships:

Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution

Selected Publications:

  • Newell, B.R., Wong, K.Y., Cheung, C.H.J., & Rakow, T. (in press). Think, blink or sleep on it? The impact of modes of thought on complex decision making. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Newell, B.R. & Dunn, J.C. (2008). Dimensions in data: Testing psychological models using state-trace analysis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 285-290.
  • Rakow, T.R., Demes, K. & Newell, B.R. (2008). Biased samples not mode of presentation: Re-examining the apparent underweighting of rare events in experience-based choice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 106, 168-179.
  • Newell, B.R. & Bröder, A. (2008). Cognitive processes, models and metaphors in decision research. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 195-204.
  • Newell, B.R., Mitchell, C.J., & Hayes, B.K. (2008). Getting scarred and winning lotteries: Effects of exemplar cuing and statistical format on imagining low-probability events. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 317-335.
  • Newell, B.R., Cavenett, T., & Andrews, S. (2008). On the immunity of perceptual implicit memory to manipulations of attention. Memory & Cognition, 36, 725-734.
  • Newell, B.R., Lagnado, D.A. & Shanks, D.R (2007). Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making. Psychology Press: Hove, UK.
  • Newell, B.R. & Rakow, T. (2007). The role of experience in decisions from description. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1133-1139.
  • Newell, B.R. & Shanks, D.R. (2007). Perspectives on the tools of decision making. In Max Roberts (Ed.) Integrating the mind (pp 131-151). Psychology Press: Hove, UK.
  • Newell, B.R. (2005). Re-visions of rationality? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 11-15.
Courses:

PSYC 1001: First Yr Co-ordinator
PSYC 3211: Cognitive Science

Selected Links:


Contact Details:

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

Personal Homepage: http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/Users/BNewell/