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Overview

Daniel Read is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of topics mainly within the social sciences and medicine, with a substantial focus on behavioral economics, decision-making, and public health interventions.

The main fields of study covered by Daniel Read include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their work addresses several subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Philosophy
  • Safety Research
  • Epidemiology

The primary topics in Daniel Read's research include:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Philosophy and Literary Analysis
  • Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art

Their recent papers illustrate the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of their work. These include:

  • Deceptive Communication (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Risk compensation during COVID-19: The impact of face mask usage on social distancing. (2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied)
  • #LetsUnlitterUK: A demonstration and evaluation of the Behavior Change Wheel methodology (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Applying Behavioural Insights to HIV Prevention and Management: a Scoping Review (2022, Current HIV/AIDS Reports)
  • Patience decreases with age for the poor but not for the rich: an international comparison (2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)

Daniel Read has worked collaboratively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Ivo Vlaev
  • James Skinner
  • Kelly Ann Schmidtke
  • Umar Taj
  • Despoina Alempaki

Their research contributions have predominantly appeared in specific venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sexual Health
  • Behavioural Public Policy
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied

In addition to journal publications, Daniel Read has authored work in book form, including a publication with Edward Elgar Publishing titled Philosophies of Organizational Change (2020).

Best Publications

  • What Do People Know About Global Climate Change? 1. Mental Models

    Ann Bostrom;M. Granger Morgan;Baruch Fischhoff;Daniel Read

  • Predicting Hunger: The Effects of Appetite and Delay on Choice

    Daniel Read;Barbara van Leeuwen

  • Diversification bias: Explaining the discrepancy in variety seeking between combined and separated choices

    Daniel Read;George Loewenstein

  • Is Time-Discounting Hyperbolic or Subadditive?

    Daniel Read

  • Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives of Intertemporal Choice

    George Loewenstein;Daniel Read;Roy F. Baumeister

  • Now what do people know about global climate change? Survey studies of educated laypeople

    Travis William Reynolds;Ann Bostrom;Daniel Read;M. Granger Morgan

  • Mixing virtue and vice: combining the immediacy effect and the diversification heuristic

    Daniel Read;George Loewenstein;Shobana Kalyanaraman

  • Time discounting over the lifespan

    Daniel Read;Nicoleta Liliana Read

  • Dynamics of Entangled H-Polymers: Theory, Rheology, and Neutron-Scattering

    T. C. B. McLeish;J. Allgaier;D. K. Bick;G. Bishko

  • Four Score and Seven Years from Now: The Date/Delay Effect in Temporal Discounting

    Daniel Read;Shane Frederick;Burcu Orsel;Juwaria Rahman

  • The Psychology of Intertemporal Discounting: Why are Distant Events Valued Differently from Proximal Ones?

    Dilip Soman;George Ainslie;Shane Frederick;Xiuping Li

  • The psychology of intertemporal tradeoffs

    Marc Scholten;Daniel Read

  • Monetary incentives, what are they good for?

    Daniel Read

  • Computational linear rheology of general branch-on-branch polymers

    Chinmay Das;Nathanael J. Inkson;Daniel J. Read;Mark A. Kelmanson

  • The lure of choice

    Nicola J. Bown;Daniel Read;Barbara Summers

  • Structure and Rheology of Molten Polymers

    John M. Dealy;Daniel J. Read;Ronald G. Larson

  • Judgment and Choice

    Daniel Read

  • Neutron-Mapping Polymer Flow: Scattering, Flow Visualization, and Molecular Theory

    J. Bent;L. R. Hutchings;R. W. Richards;T. Gough

  • Discounting by Intervals: A Generalized Model of Intertemporal Choice

    Marc Scholten;Daniel Read

  • Intransitive intertemporal choice

    Peter H. M. P. Roelofsma;Daniel Read

  • The Construction of Preference: Choice Bracketing

    Daniel Read;George Loewenstein;Matthew Rabin

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom McLeish
Tom McLeish University of York
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
M. Granger Morgan
M. Granger Morgan Carnegie Mellon University
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Dimitris Vlassopoulos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Ralph H. Colby
Ralph H. Colby Pennsylvania State University
Taihyun Chang
Taihyun Chang Pohang University of Science and Technology
Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe Kyoto University
Neil Stewart
Neil Stewart University of Warwick
Charles-André Fustin
Charles-André Fustin Université Catholique de Louvain
Nikos Hadjichristidis
Nikos Hadjichristidis King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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