Current projects
Current research projects within the group include:
- The role of confidence cues on deception in competitive dyadic situations (Colman, Pulford, Mangiarulo).
- Individual and dyadic moral dilemmas, judging what others will do in morally difficult situations (Pulford).
- Understanding strategic reasoning in dyadic competitive and cooperative games (Colman, Pulford, Krockow).
- Research on online adolescent risk taking, working with the educational charity Warning Zone (Frosch, Pulford).
- Health-related decision making - perceptions of risks and uncertainty underlying medical treatment choices and antibiotic prescribing (Krockow).
Dedication of Sluckin Room 2017
Research themes
- Advice giving and taking
- Agency and structure effects on beliefs and behaviour
- Agent-based simulation
- Ambiguity aversion
- Artificial Intelligence (trust and cooperation)
- Bargaining Games and Verifiable Information
- Behavioural economics
- Causal and counterfactual thinking in children and adults
- Centipede games
- Communication and perception of confidence
- Consumption and regulation
- Cooperation
- Decidability and undecidability
- Emotions and regulation
- Evolution of cooperation
- Experimental games
- Frugal heuristics in judgment and decision making
- Game theory
- Mental accounting
- Moral judgment
- Overconfidence
- Quantum decision theory
- Retail crime and loss prevention
- Social decisions: networks and innovations
- Team reasoning