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Overview

Ben R. Newell is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research centers on decision-making processes and behavioral economics with notable work spanning multiple subfields such as general decision sciences, sociology and political science, applied psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to studies involving decision-making and behavioral economics, behavioral health and interventions, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, climate change communication and perception, neural and behavioral psychology studies, economic and environmental valuation, and housing market and economics.

Some of the recent papers authored by or involving Ben R. Newell include:

  • People as Intuitive Scientists: Reconsidering Statistical Explanations of Decision Making (2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • How top-down and bottom-up attention modulate risky choice (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Nudge interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in primary care: a systematic review (2023, BMJ Open)
  • Adapting to the algorithm: how accuracy comparisons promote the use of a decision aid (2022, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications)
  • Valuation and estimation from experience (2021, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making)

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • David R. Shanks
  • David A. Lagnado
  • Hazel Bateman
  • Susan Thorp
  • Chris Donkin

Ben R. Newell has published multiple articles in well-established venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cognition
  • Decision
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

The academic contributions also include book publications through respected publishers. These books are:

  • Open Minded (2023), published by The MIT Press
  • Straight Choices (2022), published by Psychology Press eBooks

Overall, their research covers a breadth of topics that intersect behavioral sciences, economics, and psychology through multidisciplinary approaches, reflecting a broad engagement with decision sciences and its applications in health, environment, and financial behavior.

Best Publications

  • Unconscious influences on decision making: a critical review.

    Ben R. Newell;David R. Shanks

  • Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change: An integrative review

    Rachel I. McDonald;Rachel I. McDonald;Hui Yi Chai;Ben R. Newell

  • Unpacking the exploration–exploitation tradeoff: A synthesis of human and animal literatures.

    Sabine Mehlhorn;Ben R Newell;Peter M Todd;Michael D Lee

  • Universal aesthetic of fractals

    Branka Spehar;Colin W.G. Clifford;Ben R. Newell;Richard P. Taylor

  • Take the best or look at the rest? Factors influencing "one-reason" decision making.

    Ben R. Newell;David R. Shanks

  • Empirical tests of a fast-and-frugal heuristic: Not everyone "takes-the-best"

    Ben R Newell;Nicola J Weston;David R Shanks

  • Priming Intelligent Behavior: An Elusive Phenomenon

    David R. Shanks;Ben R. Newell;Eun Hee Lee;Divya Balakrishnan

  • Degrees of uncertainty: An overview and framework for future research on experience-based choice

    Tim Rakow;Ben R. Newell

  • Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Naomi Oreskes;James S. Risbey;Ben R. Newell

  • Re-visions of rationality?

    Ben R. Newell

  • Predicting climate change risk perception and willingness to act

    Belinda Xie;Marilynn B. Brewer;Brett K. Hayes;Rachel I. McDonald

  • Insight and Strategy in Multiple-Cue Learning.

    David A. Lagnado;Ben R. Newell;Steven Kahan;David R. Shanks

  • Biased samples not mode of presentation: Re-examining the apparent underweighting of rare events in experience-based choice

    Tim Rakow;Kali A. Demes;Ben R. Newell

  • Cognitive processes, models and metaphors in decision research.

    Arndt Bröder;Ben R. Newell

  • Dimensions in data: testing psychological models using state-trace analysis

    Ben R. Newell;John C. Dunn

  • Search strategies in decision making: the success of “success”

    Ben R. Newell;Tim Rakow;Nicola J. Weston;David R. Shanks

  • Think, blink or sleep on it? The impact of modes of thought on complex decision making.

    Ben R. Newell;Kwan Yao Wong;Jeremy C. H. Cheung;Tim Rakow

  • In conflict with ourselves? An investigation of heuristic and analytic processes in decision making

    Carissa Bonner;Ben R. Newell

  • The Psychology of Environmental Decisions

    Ben R. Newell;Rachel I. McDonald;Marilynn Brewer;Brett K. Hayes

  • Perceptual and physiological responses to the visual complexity of fractal patterns.

    R P Taylor;B Spehar;J A Wise;C W G Clifford

  • When and why rare events are underweighted: A direct comparison of the sampling, partial feedback, full feedback and description choice paradigms

    Adrian R. Camilleri;Ben R. Newell

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Shanks
David R. Shanks University College London
Chris Donkin
Chris Donkin Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
David A. Lagnado
David A. Lagnado University College London
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales
Mike E. Le Pelley
Mike E. Le Pelley University of New South Wales
Derek J. Koehler
Derek J. Koehler University of Waterloo
Thomas F. Denson
Thomas F. Denson University of New South Wales
Eldad Yechiam
Eldad Yechiam Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Michelle L. Moulds
Michelle L. Moulds University of New South Wales

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