Media

TELEVISION AND VIDEO

Faculti.net Streaming Platform. 12 May 2024: Does Competitive Winning Increase Subsequent Cheating? View interview here [18 minutes] or view this link

BBC4: The Joy of Winning, 28 August 2018, 21:00. Dr Hannah Fry discusses how to have a happier life and a better world all thanks to maths (credited as a consultant for the programme). View a trailer here. [59 minutes]

Sky 1 TV: Duck Quacks Don’t Echo, 12 October 2017, 20:00, Series 6, Episode 7, “Winning a game makes people more likely to cheat the next time", presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, Rob Beckett, and Melanie C. (interviewed briefly from 1'52"). [6 minutes]

Press release video: "Similarity Discrimination", 18 April 2012. Andrew Colman and Briony Pulford. [3 minutes 40 secs]

BBC TV, Rough Justice - "Murder in Mind", BBC1, 01 April 1993, 21:30. Andrew Colman interviewed at 14'45", 17'02", and 19'02". [36 minutes]

Channel Four, Right To Reply: "Satanic Abuse". Brian Hayes interviews Beatrix Campbell and Andrew Colman, 6 Oct 1990, 18:30–19:00 (interviewed from 3’40") [15 minutes]

Central TV, Central Weekend - "What's in a Name?" ITV1, 03 July 1987, 23:40 (interviewed from 3'42" and 10'35") [18 minutes] 

BBC TV, Horizon - "Nice Guys Finish First", BBC 2, 14 April, 1986 (interviewed at length with Richard Dawkins, 10'44"-17'57" and 24'27"-29'55"). [46 minutes]

ITV1 TV, Central News – "Effects of Cartoon Violence", 11 February 1986 (interviewed at 00’41”). [2 minutes] 

BBC TV, Oxford Road Show "Police Prejudice", BBC2, 20 November 1981, 19:15 (interviewed from 2’12” and from 10’02”) [12 minutes] 

BBC TV, Out of Court "Police Prejudice", BBC2, 07 October 1981 (interviewed from 5’50” onwards). [10 minutes]

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Television Services, 1966, "God's Country", presented by Stanley Burke, first broadcast 27 September 1966. Extract from 30' programme (interviewed from 2'26") [5 minutes 24 seconds]

RADIO

BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze “Isolation” chaired by Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Mona Siddqui, Melanie Philips and Giles. Andrew Colman interviewed as an expert witness from 09.35 on the timing bar. Broadcast 25 March 2020, 20:00–20:45; 28 March, 22:15–23:00 [45 minutes]

Voice of Islam radio, interview with Andrew Colman about trust, 04 November 2019 17:35-17:50. [15 minutes]

pulse-project: “Game Theory”, Andrew Colman gives a podcast expert explanation of game theory and its applications, 22 March 2014. [4 minutes 45 seconds]

CapeTalk radio - The John Maytham Show, "The Bystander Effect", Andrew Colman interviewed by John Maytham about teachers who stood by and watched a schoolboy killing, 01 November 2013, 14:04. [8 minutes 57 seconds]

BBC World Service, The Why Factor: “the Mob” – 02 Feb 2013 4:32–04:50; 04 Feb 2013 11:32–11.50. Mike Williams interviews five people about crowd behaviour. Andrew Colman from 05’02”, 06’09”, 09’12”, and 15’20” [18 minutes]

WAMC Northeast Public Radio NY: The Academic Minute – "Natural selection and cooperation", 20 June 2012. [2 minutes 40 seconds]

BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, "Game Theory", 10th May 2012, Melvyn Bragg with Andrew Colman, Ian Stewart, and Richard Bradley. [45 minutes]

BBC Radio 5 Live – interview with Andrew Colman about "Eliminating Crime", 31 May 1997. [6 minutes] 

BBC World Service – Interview with Andrew Colman about "Communal Violence", 24 June 1994, repeated 25 June 1994. [3 mins] 

BBC Radio 2 John Dunn Show – interview with Andrew Colman about "Émile Coué and Autosuggestion", 14 June 1994, 18:15. [7 minutes] 

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, interview, with Andrew Colman alongside Major Ian Palmer, about the psychology of "Ethnic hostility in South Africa and Bosnia", 03 May 1994, 11:30, repeated 04 May 1994, 19:45. [13 minutes] 

BBC Radio 4 - Law in Action, interview with Andrew Colman about the "Admissibility of Expert Psychological Evidence", 21 January 1994, 20:50. [3 minutes] 

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, debate between Andrew Colman and Graham Wagstaff about "Hypnosis", 30 April 1991, 11:30, repeated 31 April 1991, 19:45. [10 minutes] 

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, 18 January 1990, interview with Andrew Colman about "Evidence in a Murder Trial in South Africa", 11:30, repeated 19 January 1990, 19:45. [11 minutes]

GENERAL PRESS

“A huge relief”: Journal takes down plagiarized paper after Retraction Watch reporting

‘Mugged by stealth’: Team finds their paper has been plagiarized not once, but twice (Retraction Watch)

"How to Win at Poker" Cheltenham Science Festival (2016)

"Cameron's Trick Question" - EU Referendum Bloomberg News (2015)

"Scots Are Voting on the Wrong Question"  Bloomberg News (2014)  

“Should Scotland remain part of the United Kingdom”  (2014)

"Game theory" (interview in Thinking in Practice) (2012)

"Creationism in schools" (2011)

"The case of Gill Evans: Reflections on promotion procedures" (2002)

"Graffiti" (1986)

"From the Editor's desk" Current Psychological Research & Reviews (1984)

"The contribution of the 1820 Settlers to the development of South Africa" (1961)

MISCELLANEOUS PRESS RELATED TO PUBLISHED RESEARCH

(Click on a publication below to see related press links)

Colman, A. M., Krockow, E. M., Chattoe-Brown, E., & Tarrant, C. (2019). Medical prescribing and antibiotic resistance: A game-theoretic analysis of a potentially catastrophic social dilemma. PLOS ONE, 14(4), 1–13.  AND Tarrant, C., Colman, A. M., Chattoe-Brown, E., Jenkins, D. R., Mehtar, S., Perera, N., & Krockow, E. M. (2019). Optimising antibiotic prescribing: Collective approaches to managing a common-pool resource. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 25(11), 1356–1363.

Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Krockow, E. M. (2018). Persistent cooperation and gender differences in repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma games: Some things never change. Acta Psychologica, 187, 1–8.

Colman, A. M. (2015). A dictionary of psychology (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Lawrence, C. L. (2014). Explaining strategic coordination: Cognitive hierarchy theory, strong Stackelberg reasoning, and team reasoning. Decision, 1(1), 35-58.

Colman, A. M., Browning, L., & Pulford, B. D. (2012). Spontaneous similarity discrimination in the evolution of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 299, 162-171.   [You Tube video]

Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., Omtzigt, D., & al-Nowaihi, A. (2010). Learning to cooperate without awareness in multiplayer minimal social situations. Cognitive Psychology, 61, 201-227.

Colman, A. M., & Browning, L. (2009). Evolution of cooperative turn-taking. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 11, 949-963.

Bolger, F., Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2008). Market entry decisions: Effects of absolute and relative confidence. Experimental Psychology, 55, 113-120.

Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Rose, J. (2008). Collective rationality in interactive decisions: Evidence for team reasoning. Acta Psychologica, 128, 387–397.

Colman, A. M., & Wilson, J. C. (1997). Antisocial personality disorder: An evolutionary game theory analysis. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 2, 23-34.

Colman, A. M. (1993, September/October). A supernatural IQ? Investigating a claim to an extraordinary IQ. The Skeptic, 7(5), 12-13.

Colman, A. M. (1991). Crowd psychology in South African murder trials. American Psychologist, 46, 1071-1079.   

Colman, A. M., & Gorman, L. P. (1982). Conservatism, dogmatism, and authoritarianism in British police officers. Sociology, 16, 1-11.