Ben R. Newell
Senior
Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychology, University of New South
Wales
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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.