University of New South Wales - School of Psychology

Supervisor: Ben Newell

Research Areas: Judgment and decision-making in experience-based choice

Academic Qualifications:

B. Psychology, Hons (Class I) & University Medal, 2007, UNSW
Candidate: PhD / M. Psychology (Organisational), UNSW

Publications:

Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (2011). The relevance of a probabilistic mindset in risky choice. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2794-2799). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (download PDF).
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (2011). Description- and experience-based choice: Do equivalent samples equal equivalent choice? Acta Psychologica, 136, 276-284.
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (2011). When and why rare events are underweighted: A direct comparison of the sampling, partial feedback, full feedback and description choice paradigms. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 377-384.
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (2009). The role of mental representation in experience-based choice. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 518–529. (download PDF)
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (2009). Within-subject preference reversals in description- and experience-based choice. In N. Taatgen, J. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne & L. Schomaker (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 449-454. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (download PDF)

Selected Presentations:

Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (July, 2011). Within-subject preference reversals in description- and experience-based choice. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, M.A., USA.
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (November, 2010). When and why rare events are underweighted in choice. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis, M.O., USA. (download PDF)
Camilleri, A. R., Hawkins, G., Dodds, P., Brown, S., & Newell, B. R. (November, 2010). Estimation and choice in a sequential sampling paradigm. Poster presented at the Annual Society for Judgment and Decision Making, St Louis, M.O., USA. (download PDF)
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (July, 2010). When and why rare events are underweighted in choice. Poster and talk presented at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality organised by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. (download PDF)
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (December, 2009). Exploring the differences between description- and experienced-based choice. Talk given at the Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (November, 2009). The long and short of it: Decisions made from description and from experience. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Conference, Boston, USA. (download PDF)
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (July, 2009). Mind the gap: Within-subject preference reversals in description and experience-based choice. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (download PDF)
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (July, 2009). The description-experience ‘gap’: Psychological or statistical phenomenon? Talk given at the UCL Learning, Judgment and Decision Making Seminar, London, UK.
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (April, 2009). Mind the gap: Does choice depend on the mode of information acquisition? Poster presented at the Annual Experimental Psychology Conference, Wollongong, Australia.
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (February, 2009). Differences between description- and experienced-based decision-making. Talk given at the Annual Australian Mathematical Psychology Conference, Newcastle, Australia.
Camilleri, A. R. & Newell, B. R. (December, 2008). How does mode of information acquisition affect our decision-making? Talk given at the Annual Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Awards and Achievements:

2012: Awarded Australian Endeavour Award by the Australian Government.
2010: Awarded (2nd) Best Student Poster Award ($500) at the annual meeting for the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.
2010: Awarded the Jane Beattie Memorial Scholarship ($1400) by the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the European Association for Decision Making.
2010: Invited to attend the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality (€500) organised by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and won a Poster Award.
2009: Awarded a Postgraduate Research Student Support travel scholarship ($3000) by the University of New South Wales.
2008-2011: Awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award ($22,000 per annum) by the Australian Government.
2008-2011: Awarded a UNSW Research Excellence Award ($10,000 per annum) by the University of New South Wales.
2007: Awarded the University Medal by the University of New South Wales.
2007: Awarded the Australian Psychological Society Prize in Psychology by the Australian Psychological Society.

Contact Details:

Email: acamilleri@psy.unsw.edu.au
Web: http://www.adriancamilleri.net/