Research
My research interests are in judgment and decision making, game theory and experimental games, and psychometrics.
2021–2024: £63,811 (£319,389 FEC) awarded by the Leicester Judgment and Decision Making Endowment Fund to study “Communication, deception, and iterated decisions under bounded rationality”.
2019–21: £39,065 (£214,045 FEC) awarded by the Leicester Judgment and Decision Making Endowment Fund to investigate “Confidence and Reasoning in Decisions and Games”.
2017–18: Tarrant, C., Colman, A. M., Chattoe-Brown, E., Jenkins, D., Perera, N., & Mehtar, S. £204,717 (£246,678 FEC) awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council to study “Antimicrobial resistance as a social dilemma: Implications for developing interventions to reduce the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics for acute medical patients in hospital settings internationally”.
2016–21: Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., & Frosch, C. A. £10,000 awarded by the Leicester Judgment and Decision Making Endowment Fund for the “LJDME Sluckin Studentship Award”.
2016–18: Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., & Frosch, C. A. £26,039 (£134,293 FEC) awarded by the Leicester Judgment and Decision Making Endowment Fund to study “Comparisons, Confidence, and Causality in Decision Making”. End of project report (2018).
2011–16 Pulford, B. D. & Colman, A. M. £100,000 (247,822 FEC) awarded by the Leicester Judgment and Decision Making Endowment Fund to study “Coordination, Judgment, and Decision Making”. End of project report (2016).
2010–12: Gold, N., Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. £125,151 (£151,217) awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a study of "Framing Effects in Ethical Dilemmas". End of project Symposium details.
2009: Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. £7,272 awarded by the Nuffield Foundation Social Sciences Small Grants Scheme for a study of "Evolution of Cooperation Through Similarity Recognition".
2005–06: Colman, A. M. £2,600 awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to study "Evolution of Cooperation Through Coordinated Turn-Taking".
2004–07: Baker, R., Mellon, J., Colman, A. M., Steward, W., Kockelbergh, R., Sinfield, P., Tarrant, C., Crosbee, L., & Sproston, K. £347,291 awarded by the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation National R&D Programme for research into "Prostate Cancer Care: Improving Measures of the Patient Experience".
2004–05: Colman, A. M., & Al-Nowaihi, A. £12,054 awarded by the British Academy Larger Research Grants Scheme to study "Cooperation in Multi-Player Minimal Social Situations: An Experimental Investigation".
2003–05: Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Bolger, F. £121,563 awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council for research into "Confidence in Interactive Decisions". End of grant Symposium information.
1994–97: Bacharach, M., Colman, A. M., & Gambetta, D. £98,990 awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council for research into "Framing, Salience and Product Images" (theoretical and experimental research into framing effects in multi-attribute decisions and games).
1983–85: Sluckin, W., Colman, A. M., & Hargreaves, D. £16,720 awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (then the Social Science Research Council) for a project on "Development and Change in Everyday Likes and Dislikes".
1967: Colman, A. M. SAR500 awarded by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for “The Development of a Unidimensional Scale to Measure Attitudes Towards Africans”.