David R Shanks

Professor of Psychology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London

Ben R. Newell and David R. Shanks

Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind

MIT Press, August 2023

Ben R. Newell, David A. Lagnado, and David R. Shanks

Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making (3rd ed)

Hove, UK: Psychology Press, 2022

Contact Information

Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AH

d.shanks@ucl.ac.uk

Research Interests

My research interests include human learning and memory; judgment and decision-making; computational modeling, especially with neural network and signal detection models; amnesia, the hippocampus, and the implicit-explicit distinction; economic psychology and rationality.