Ben R. Newell

 Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales

                                                                                                                                                                                     

School of Psychology

 

 

 

 

University of New South Wales

 

 

Tel: +61 (0) 2 9385 1606

Sydney

 

 

Fax: +61 (0) 2 9385 3641

2052

 

 

Email: ben[dot]newell[at]unsw[dot]edu[dot]au

Australia

 

 

 

 

New Publications and News:         

 

Read an article in TIME magazine on our paper Think, Blink, or Sleep on it? The impact of modes of thought on complex decision making published in QJEP.

 

Go here to access a new Special Issue of Judgment and Decision Making on Cognitive Models of Multi-attribute Judgment and Decision Making. Guest Edited by Arndt Bröder and Ben R. Newell.

 

Go here to see the Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making on Experience-Based Decision Making. Guest Edited by Tim Rakow and Ben R. Newell.

 

Go here  to see some fun tips on how to improve your decision making courtesy of BBC Horizon.

 

 

Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making co-authored with David Lagnado and David Shanks.

 

Psychology Press (2007)

 

“Straight Choices captures the excitement and innovative nature of research into decision making in everyday life and leaves the reader hungry to learn more. It is a remarkable springboard into understanding what we know and to developing one’s own decision making skills.”

Robin M. Hogarth, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
 

Research Interests:

 

[Publications]

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[Books]

 

Newell, B.R., Lagnado, D.A., & Shanks, D.R. (2007). Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

 

 

[Book Chapters]

 

Newell, B.R. & Shanks, D.R. (2007). Perspectives on the tools of decision making. In Max Roberts (Ed.) Integrating the mind (pp 131-151). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Taylor, R.P, Newell, B.R., Spehar, B. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2005). Fractals: a resonance between art and nature. In M. Emmer (Ed.) Mathematics and Culture II: Visual Perfection: Mathematics & Creativity .pp 53-63. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Searle, B.J., Newell, B.R. & Bright, J.E.H. (2001). Cognition, stress and anxiety. In F. Jones and J. Bright, Stress: myth, theory and research. pp 89-107. Pearson Education.

 

[Peer Reviewed Journal Articles]

Newell, B.R., Weston, N.J., Tunney, R.J., & Shanks, D.R. (in press). The effectiveness of feedback in multiple-cue probability learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Newell, B.R., Wong, K.Y., Cheung, C.H.J., & Rakow, T. (in press). Think, blink or sleep on it? The impact of modes of thought on complex decision making. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. PDF

Newell, B.R., & Dunn, J.C. (2008). Dimensions in data: Testing psychological models using state-trace analysis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 285-290. PDF

Bonner, C. & Newell, B.R. (2008). How to make a risk seem riskier: The ratio bias versus construal level theory. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 411-416. PDF

Rakow, T.R., Demes, K., & Newell, B.R. (2008). Biased samples not mode of presentation: Re-examining the apparent underweighting of rare events in experience-based choice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 106, 168-179. PDF

Newell, B.R., Cavenett, T., & Andrews, S. (2008). On the immunity of perceptual implicit memory to manipulations of attention. Memory & Cognition,36, 725-734. PDF

Newell, B.R., Mitchell. C.J., & Hayes, B.K. (2008). Getting scarred and winning lotteries: Effects of exemplar cuing and statistical format on imagining low-probability events. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 317-335. PDF.

Newell, B.R. & Bröder, A. (2008). Cognitive processes, models and metaphors in decision research. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 195-204. PDF.

Bröder, A. & Newell, B.R. (2008). Challenging some common beliefs: Empirical work within the adaptive toolbox. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 205-214. PDF.

Newell, B.R. & Hayes, B.K. (2007). Naturally nested, but why dual-process? Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 30, 276-277.

 

Newell, B.R. & Rakow, T. (2007). The role of Experience in Decisions from Description. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1133-1139. PDF

 

Newell, B.R., Lagnado, D.A., & Shanks, D.R. (2007). Challenging the role of implicit processes in probabilistic category learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 505-51. PDF.

 

Newell, B.R. & Shanks, D.R. (2007). Recognizing what you like: examining the relation between the mere-exposure effect and recognition. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology,19, 103-118. PDF

 

Newell, B.R. & Fernandez, D. (2006). On the binary quality of recognition and the inconsequentiality of further knowledge: Two critical tests of the recognition heuristic. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19, 333-346. PDF

 

Lagnado, D.A., Newell, B.R., Kahan, S., & Shanks, D.R. (2006). Insight and strategy in multiple cue learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 162-183.  PDF

 

Enkvist, T., Newell, B.R., Juslin, P. & Olsson, H. (2006). On the role of causal intervention in multiple cue judgment: Positive and negative effects on learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 32, 163-179. PDF

 

Rakow, T., Newell, B.R., Fayers, K. & Hersby, M. (2005). Evaluating three criteria for establishing cue-search hierarchies in inferential judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31, 1088-1104. PDF

Newell, B.R. (2005). Re-visions of rationality? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 11-15. PDF

Taylor, R.P., Spehar, B., Wise, J.A., Clifford, C.W.G., Newell, B.R., Hagerhall, C.M., Purcell, T. & Martin, T.P. (2005). Perceptual and physiological responses to the visual complexity of Pollock’s dripped fractal patterns, Non-linear Dynamics, Psychology & Life Sciences, 9, 89-114.

Newell, B.R. & Shanks, D.R. (2004). On the role of recognition in decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 30, 923-935.PDF

Newell, B.R., Rakow. T., Weston, N.J., & Shanks, D.R. (2004). Search strategies in decision making: The success of “success”. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17, 117-137. PDF

Newell, B.R.& Andrews, S. (2004). Levels of processing effects on implicit and explicit memory tasks: using question position to investigate the lexical processing hypothesis. Experimental Psychology, 51, 132-144. PDF

Newell, B.R., Weston, N.J., & Shanks, D.R. (2003). Empirical tests of a fast and frugal heuristic: not everyone “takes-the-best”. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 91, 82-96. PDF

Newell, B.R. & Shanks, D.R. (2003). Take the best or look at the rest? Factors influencing ‘one-reason’ decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 29, 53-65 PDF

Newell, B.R. & Bright, J.E.H. (2003). The subliminal mere exposure effect does not generalize to structurally related stimuli. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 61-68. PDF

Spehar, B., Clifford, C.W.G, Newell, B.R., & Taylor, R.P. (2003) Universal aesthetic of fractals. Computers and Graphics, 27, 813-820. PDF

Newell, B.R. & Bright, J.E.H. (2002). Evidence against hyperspecificity in implicit invariant learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A, 55, 1109 -1126. PDF

Newell, B.R. & Bright, J.E.H. (2002). Well past midnight: calling time on implicit invariant learning? European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 14, 185 -205.  PDF

Newell, B.R. & Bright, J.E.H. (2001). The relationship between the structural mere exposure effect and the implicit learning process. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 1087 –1104. PDF

 

[Peer Reviewed Conference Papers]

 

Newell, B.R., Collins, P., & Lee, M.D. (2007). Adjusting the spanner: Testing an evidence accumulation model of decision making. In D. McNamara and G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Hayes, B.K., Ruthven, C. & Newell, B.R. (2007). Inferring properties when categorization is uncertain: a feature conjunction account. In D. McNamara and G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Newell, B.R., Mitchell, C.J. & Hayes, B.K. (2005). Imagining low probability events: Contrasting exemplar cuing and frequency format accounts. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou and M. Bucciarelli (Eds)  Proceedings of the 27th  Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1630-1635. PDF

 

Enkvist, T., Juslin, P., Olsson, H. & Newell, B.R. (2005).  Intervention in multiple-cue judgment: not always for the better.  In B. Bara, L. Barsalou and M. Bucciarelli (Eds)  Proceedings of the 27th  Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 636-641 PDF

 

 

[Other Publications]

 

Goodman-Delahunty, J., & Newell, B.R. (2004). One in how many trillion? Australasian Science, 14-17. PDF

 

Newell, B.R. & Lagnado, D. (2003). Think-tanks, or think tanks? The Psychologist, 16, 176. PDF

 

Newell, B.R. (2000). The easy road to learning may be a dead end.  Australasian Science 21, 29-31.

 

 

Last updated on September 17th, 2008.