In addition to commercial consulting assignments, current and former members of our team also publish academic research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, in partnership with colleagues at institutions such as Warwick University and University College London. Recent examples include:

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Otto, P.E., Chater, N., & Stott, H. (2010, in press) The psychological representation of corporate personality. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Vlaev, I., Kusev, P., Stewart, N., Aldrovandi, S., & Chater, N. (2010) Domain effects and financial risk attitudes. Risk Analysis 30(9): 1374-1386.

Coenen, A., & Marewski, J.N. (2009) Predicting moral judgments of corporate responsibility with formal decision heuristics. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.

Otto, P.E., Davies, G.B., Chater, N., & Stott, H. (2009) From spending to understanding: Analyzing customers by their spending behaviour. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 16: 10-18.

Reimers, S., Maylor, E., Stewart, N., & Chater, N. (2009) Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behaviour. Personality And Individual Differences 47: 973-978.

Vlaev, I., Chater, N., & Stewart, N. (2009) Dimensionality of risk perception: Factors affecting consumer understanding and evaluation of financial risk. The Journal of Behavioral Finance 9: 132-148.

Vlaev, I., Chater, N., Lewis, R., & Davies, G. (2009) Reason-based judgments: Using reasons to decouple perceived price-quality correlation. Journal of Economic Psychology 30: 721-731.

Vlaev, I., Seymour, B., Dolan, R.J., & Chater, N. (2009) The price of pain and the value of suffering. Psychological Science 20: 309-317.

Graham, I., & Stott, H. (2008) Predicting bookmaker odds and efficiency for UK football. Applied Economics 40 (1): 99-109.

Latham, M.J., & Tawn, J.A. (2008) Modelling mixtures of conditional extremes with an application to the bivariate extremes of European stock indices. Submitted for publication. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C.

Vlaev, I., Chater, N., & Stewart, N. (2008) Seeing is not enough: Manipulating choice options causes focusing and preference change in multiattribute risky decision making. Journal of Behavioural Decision Making 21: 556-574.

Vlaev, I., Stewart, N., & Chater, N. (2008) Risk preference discrepancy: A prospect relativity account of the discrepancy between risk preferences in laboratory gambles and real world investments. The Journal of Behavioral Finance 9: 132-148.

Otto, P.E., Davies, G.B., & Chater, N. (2007) Note on ways of saving: Mental mechanisms as tools of self-control. Global Business and Economics Review 9: 227-254.

Vlaev, I, Chater, N., & Stewart, N. (2007) Relativistic financial decisions: Context effects on retirement savings and investment risk preferences. Judgment and Decision Making 2: 292-311.

Stewart, N., Chater, N., & Brown, G.D.A. (2006) Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology 53: 1-26.

Stott, H.P. (2006) Choosing From Cumulative Prospect Theory's Functional Menagerie. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 32: 101-130.

Mitchell, T.J.F., Chen, S.Y., & Macredie, R.D. (2005) Cognitive Style and Adaptive Web-based Learning. Psychology of Education Review 29(1): 34-42.

Stewart, N., Chater, N., Stott, H.P., & Reimers, S. (2002) Prospect relativity: How choice options influence decision under risk. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 132(1): 23-46.