Director - UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response

Professor of Cognitive Psychology - UNSW Sydney

Ben’s research focuses on the cognitive processes underlying judgment, choice and decision making, and the application of this knowledge to environmental, medical, financial and forensic contexts. He is the lead author of Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making and Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind.

He is on the Editorial Boards of Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Thinking & Reasoning, Decision, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Experimental Psychology. Ben is also a Consulting Editor for Judgment & Decision Making.

Ben is a member of the inaugural Academic Advisory Panel of the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government.

Ben was appointed as Director of the new interdisciplinary UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response in 2023. For more information about the institute visit: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/icrr.

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