Judgement & Decision-making

This research programme focuses on the pragmatic processes involved in communicating uncertainties, quantities and in logical reasoning.

Verbal probabilities are a common mean for communicating risk and uncertainties in many decision-making settings (e.g., finance, …

This paper examines the extent to which orthodoxy (degree of typicality) and congruence (degree of similarity with own opinion) mediate …

Psychological research has firmly established that risk preferences are transient states shaped by past experiences, current knowledge, …

Two experiments examined the relationships between the knowledge that another person has won in a gamble, the illusion of control and …

A better understanding of how human factors may shape risk perception and risk taking is key to improve investment performance. This …

This research focuses on what determines speakers’ choice of positive and negative probability phrases (e.g., “a chance” vs. “not …

This study aimed to better understand the cognitive underpinnings of people’s intuitions concerning the conjunction rule of …

Offender profilers use verbal and numerical probability expressions to convey uncertainty surrounding claims made about …

Decision framing concerns how individuals build internal representations of problems and how these determine the choices that they …