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Andrew M. Colman is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields primarily within the social sciences and psychology. Colman has contributed extensively to studies in social sciences, with 12 publications, and psychology, with 7 publications addressing topics related to human behavior, decision-making, and moral judgment.

The scientist's research covers main topics such as experimental behavioral economics studies, antibiotic use and resistance, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, patient satisfaction in healthcare, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, decision-making and behavioral economics, and pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes.

Key subfields where Colman has focused scholarly activity include general health professions, sociology and political science, safety research, applied microbiology and biotechnology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Colman has been involved in publishing research papers in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Experimental Economics
  • Frontiers in Sociology
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Antibiotics
  • Current Opinion in Psychology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Colman include:

  • "Moral and Contextual Dimensions of "Inappropriate" Antibiotic Prescribing in Secondary Care: A Three-Country Interview Study," 2020, published in Frontiers in Sociology
  • "Theory of collective mind," 2023, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Drivers of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Overuse across Diverse Hospital Contexts-A Qualitative Study of Prescribers in the UK, Sri Lanka and South Africa," 2021, published in Antibiotics
  • "Prosociality in the social dilemma of antibiotic prescribing," 2021, published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "A five-factor integrative taxonomy of strategic reasoning in dyadic games," 2021, published in European Journal of Social Psychology

Throughout their career, Colman has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Carolyn Tarrant, Eva M. Krockow, Briony D. Pulford, Edmund Chattoe-Brown, and Nelun Perera. Each of these coauthors has worked on multiple projects with Colman, contributing jointly to the understanding of behavioral and social dynamics in health and economic contexts.

Best Publications

  • Optimal number of response categories in rating scales: reliability, validity, discriminating power, and respondent preferences

    Carolyn C Preston;Andrew M Colman

  • Game Theory and its Applications: In the Social and Biological Sciences

    Andrew M. Colman

  • Cooperation, psychological game theory, and limitations of rationality in social interaction

    Andrew M. Colman

  • Comparing Rating Scales of Different Lengths: Equivalence of Scores from 5-Point and 7-Point Scales

    Andrew M. Colman;Claire E. Norris;Carolyn C. Preston

  • Context Effects on Recall and Recognition of Magazine Advertisements.

    Claire E. Norris;Andrew M. Colman

  • Overconfidence : Feedback and item difficulty effects

    Briony D. Pulford;Andrew M. Colman

  • Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems

    Natalie Gold;Andrew M. Colman;Briony D. Pulford

  • Game Theory and Experimental Games: The Study of Strategic Interaction

    Andrew M. Colman

  • Gender and Social Facilitation Effects on Computer Competence and Attitudes toward Computers.

    Rod Corston;Andrew M. Colman

  • Collective rationality in interactive decisions: evidence for team reasoning.

    Andrew M. Colman;Briony D. Pulford;Jo Rose

  • What is psychology

    Andrew M. Colman

  • Game theory and experimental games

    Andrew Colman

  • Balancing the risks to individual and society : a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research on antibiotic prescribing behaviour in hospitals

    E.M. Krockow;A.M. Colman;E. Chattoe-Brown;D.R. Jenkins

  • PAYOFF DOMINANCE AND THE STACKELBERG HEURISTIC

    Andrew M. Colman;Michael Bacharach

  • Continuity and trust in primary care: a qualitative study informed by game theory.

    Carolyn Clare Tarrant;Mary Dixon-Woods;Andrew M. Colman;Tim Stokes

  • The puzzle of cooperation

    Andrew M. Colman

  • The Dimensions of Aesthetic Reactions To Music

    David J. Hargreaves;Andrew M. Colman

  • CONTEXT EFFECTS ON MEMORY FOR TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS

    Claire E. Norris;Andrew M. Colman

  • Mystery customer research: Cognitive processes affecting accuracy

    Lisa J. Morrison;Andrew M. Colman;Carolyn C. Preston

  • Stackelberg reasoning in mixed-motive games: An experimental investigation

    Andrew M Colman;Jonathan A Stirk

  • Editorial role in author- referee disagreements

    Andrew M. Colman

  • The dictionary of psychology.

    Andrew M. Colman

  • A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences. Commentaries. Author's reply

    Herbert Gintis;George Ainslie;Larry Arnhart;R. Alexander Bentley

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Hargreaves
David J. Hargreaves AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Christopher C. French
Christopher C. French Goldsmiths University of London
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University
Kenneth R. Hammond
Kenneth R. Hammond University of Colorado Boulder
Arthur B. Markman
Arthur B. Markman The University of Texas at Austin
Keith E. Stanovich
Keith E. Stanovich University of Toronto
John Tooby
John Tooby University of California, Santa Barbara
Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides University of California, Santa Barbara

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