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Overview

Gordon D. A. Brown is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans various areas within the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, general decision sciences, and economics and econometrics.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Inequality and Social Rank: Income Increases Buy More Life Satisfaction in More Equal Countries," 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Of tinfoil hats and thinking caps: Reasoning is more strongly related to implausible than plausible conspiracy beliefs," 2021, Cognition
  • "Social sampling and expressed attitudes: Authenticity preference and social extremeness aversion lead to social norm effects and polarization," 2022, Psychological Review
  • "The endowment effect and beliefs about the market," 2020, Decision
  • "Intestinal fungi contribute to development of alcoholic liver disease," 2020, UNC Libraries

The main fields of study covered by their work include social sciences, with subfields as follows:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Economics and Econometrics

The topics addressed in their research are diverse but emphasize behavioral and social aspects, such as:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Gordon D. A. Brown often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Lukasz Walasek
  • Alex M. Wood
  • Edika Quispe-Torreblanca
  • Christopher J. Boyce
  • Stephan Lewandowsky

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several key academic journals, with multiple publications in:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Cognition
  • Psychological Review
  • Decision
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Best Publications

  • Memory for familiar and unfamiliar words: Evidence for a long-term memory contribution to short-term memory span

    Charles Hulme;Sarah Maughan;Gordon D.A Brown

  • A Temporal Ratio Model of Memory

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Ian Neath;Nick Chater

  • Decision by sampling

    Neil Stewart;Nick Chater;Gordon D A Brown

  • Oscillator-based memory for serial order

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Tim Preece;Charles Hulme

  • Money and Happiness Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction

    Christopher J. Boyce;Gordon D. A. Brown;Simon Christopher Moore

  • Contextual Diversity, Not Word Frequency, Determines Word-Naming and Lexical Decision Times

    James S. Adelman;Gordon D.A. Brown;José F. Quesada

  • Word-frequency effects on short-term memory tasks: Evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall

    Charles Hulme;Steven Roodenrys;Steven Roodenrys;Richard Schweickert;Gordon D. A. Brown

  • Does wage rank affect employees' well-being?

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Jonathan Gardner;Andrew J. Oswald;Jing Qian

  • First in, first out: word learning age and spoken word frequency as predictors of word familiarity and word naming latency.

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Frances L. Watson

  • Absolute Identification by Relative Judgment.

    Neil Stewart;Gordon D. A. Brown;Nick Chater

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Edward Awh;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • Scaling laws in cognitive sciences

    Christopher T. Kello;Gordon D.A. Brown;Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho;John G. Holden

  • Does the brain calculate value

    Ivo Vlaev;Nick Chater;Neil Stewart;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • Modeling Item Length Effects in Memory Span: No Rehearsal Needed?

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Charles Hulme

  • The role of long-term memory mechanisms in memory span

    Charles Hulme;Steven Roodenrys;Gordon Brown;Robin Mercer

  • Distributed and massed practice: from laboratory to classroom

    Rachel Seabrook;Gordon D. A. Brown;Jonathan E. Solity

  • The dark side of conscientiousness : conscientious people experience greater drops in life satisfaction following unemployment

    Christopher J. Boyce;Alex M. Wood;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • No temporal decay in verbal short-term memory

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer;Gordon D.A. Brown;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • The development of short-term memory span: separable effects of speech rate and long-term memory.

    Steven Roodenrys;Charles Hulme;Gordon Brown

  • Time does not cause forgetting in short-term serial recall

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Matthew Duncan;Gordon D. A. Brown

  • Handbook of spelling : theory, process, and intervention

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Nick C. Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex M. Wood
Alex M. Wood London School of Economics and Political Science
Charles Hulme
Charles Hulme University of Oxford
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Teresa McCormack
Teresa McCormack Queen's University Belfast
Ian Neath
Ian Neath Memorial University of Newfoundland
John Maltby
John Maltby University of Leicester
Klaus Oberauer
Klaus Oberauer University of Zurich
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London
Nelson Cowan
Nelson Cowan University of Missouri

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