Peer-reviewed Publications
Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Crombie, A. (2024). Persistence or decay of strategic asymmetric dominance in repeated dyadic games? Experimental Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-024-09834-0
Bathaei Javareshk, M., Pulford, B. D. & Krockow, E. M. (2024). Mental accounting in tax liabilities. Decision, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40622-024-00385-0
Kennedy, E., O'Nions, E., Pulford, B. D., Bursnall, S., Germuska, J., & Senior, R. (2023). The Tavistock First-Time Parent Study: A pilot randomised controlled feasibility trial of a brief couple-focused perinatal intervention to reduce inter-parental discord. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 451–462 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01862-y
Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., Frosch, C. A., Mangiarulo, M. & Miles, J. N. V. (2022). Does competitive winning increase subsequent cheating? Royal Society Open Science, 9(8), 202197. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202197.
Alempaki, D., Colman, A. M., Kölle, F., Loomes, G., & Pulford, B. D. (2022). Investigating the failure to best respond in experimental games. Experimental Economics, 25, 656-679. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-021-09725-8 SSRN copy
Pulford, B. D., Krockow, E. M., Pinto, D. G., & Colman, A. M. (2021). A five-factor integrative taxonomy of strategic reasoning in dyadic games. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(7), 1226-1248. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2810
Percival, N. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2020). Do say ‘thank you’: Verbal expressions of politeness and gratitude influence interpersonal perceptions. Journal of General Psychology, 147(3), 228–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2019.1690970
Boam, S., & Pulford, B. D. (2019). Experiencing risk: The effect of the experiential life-skills centre ‘Warning Zone’ on children’s risk perception. Journal of Risk Research, 22(2), 177–190. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2017.1351481 Summary
Colman, A. M., Gold, N., & Pulford, B. D. (2019). Comparing hypothetical and real-life trolley problems. Psychological Science,30(9), 1386–1388. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619827880
Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2018). Altruism, collective rationality, and extreme self-sacrifice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, E197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18001632
Krockow, E. M., Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2018). Far but finite horizons promote cooperation in the centipede game. Journal of Economic Psychology, 67, 191-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.07.002
Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., Buabang, E. K., & Krockow, E. M. (2018). The persuasive power of knowledge: Testing the confidence heuristic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,147(10), 1431-1444. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000471 Media discussion
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.04.014
Krockow, E. M., Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2018). Dynamic probability of reinforcement for cooperation: Random game termination in the centipede game. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 109(2), 349–364. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.320
Pulford, B. D., Woodward, B., & Taylor, E. (2018). Do social comparisons in academic settings relate to gender and academic self-confidence? Social Psychology of Education, 21(3), 677-690. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-018-9434-1
Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., & Loomes, G. (2018). Incentive magnitude effects in experimental games: Bigger is not necessarily better. Games, 9(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/g9010004
Krockow, E. M., Takezawa, M., Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., Smithers, S., Kita, T., & Nakawake, Y. (2018). Commitment-enhancing tools in centipede games: Evidencing European-Japanese differences in trust and cooperation. Judgment and Decision Making,13(1), 61–72. http://journal.sjdm.org/vol13.1.html
Krockow, E. M., Takezawa, M., Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., & Kita, T. (2017). Cooperation and trust in Japanese and British samples: Evidence from incomplete information games. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 6(4), 227–245.https://doi.org/10.1037/ipp0000074
Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., & Lawrence, C. L., & Krockow, E. M. (2017). Reasons for cooperating in repeated interactions: Social value orientations, fuzzy traces, reciprocity, and activity bias. Decision, 4(2), 102–122. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000057
Krockow, E. M., Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2016a). Cooperation in repeated interactions: A systematic review of Centipede game experiments, 1992–2016. European Review of Social Psychology, 27(1), 231-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2016.1249640
Krockow, E. M., Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2016b). Exploring cooperation and competition in the Centipede game through verbal protocol analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46(6), 746–761. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2226
Pulford, B. D., Krockow, E., Colman, A. M., & Lawrence, C. L. (2016).Social value induction and cooperation in the centipede game.PLoS ONE, 11(3):e0152352. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152352
Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2015). Psychology of game playing: Introduction to a special issue. Games, 6(4), 677–684. https://doi.org/10.3390/g6040677
Krockow, E., Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2015). Competitive Centipede games: Zero-end payoffs and payoff inequality deter reciprocal cooperation. Games, 6, 262-272. https://doi.org/10.3390/g6030262
Gold, N., Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2015). Do as I say, don’t do as I do: Differences in moral judgments do not translate into differences in decisions in real-life trolley problems. Journal of Economic Psychology, 47, 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2015.01.001
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000001 pre-print link
Pulford, B. D., & Gill, P. (2014). Good luck, bad luck, and ambiguity aversion. Judgment and Decision Making, 9(2), 159-166. http://journal.sjdm.org/vol9.2.html
Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., & Lawrence, C. L. (2014). Strong Stackelberg reasoning in symmetric games: An experimental replication and extension. PeerJ, 2:e263. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.263
Gold, N., Colman, A. M. Pulford, B. D. (2014). Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems. Judgment and Decision Making, 9(1), 65-76. http://journal.sjdm.org/vol9.1.html
Gold, N., Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2014). The outlandish, the realistic, and the real: Contextual manipulation and agent role effects in trolley problems. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:35. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00035
Bower, S. D. & Pulford, B. D. (2013). Utilisation of advice from face-to-face and internet-mediated advisors. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 31(4), 304-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228835.2013.855697
Gold, N., Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2013). Your money or your life: Comparing judgments in trolley problems involving economic and emotional harms, injury and death. Economics and Philosophy, 29, 213-233. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267113000205
Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2012). Problems and pseudo-problems in understanding cooperation in social dilemmas. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2012.658003
Colman, A. M., Browning, L., & Pulford, B. D. (2012). Spontaneous similarity discrimination in the evolution of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 299, 162-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.022
Gold, N., Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2011). Normative theory in decision making and moral reasoning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(5), 256-257. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11000495
Pulford, B. D. (2011). The influence of advice in a Virtual Learning Environment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 42(1), 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.00995.x
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.05.003 Here are the Simulator software and instructions
Wesson, C. J., & Pulford, B. D. (2009). Verbal expressions of confidence and doubt. Psychological Reports, 105, 151-160. https://doi.org/10.2466/PR0.105.1.151-160
Pulford, B. D. (2009). Is luck on my side? Optimism, pessimism, and ambiguity aversion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(6), 1079-1087. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210802592113
Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Rose, J. (2008). Team reasoning and collective rationality: Piercing the veil of obviousness. Acta Psychologica, 128(2), 409-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.04.001
Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Rose, J. (2008). Collective rationality in interactive decisions: Evidence for team reasoning. Acta Psychologica, 128(2), 387-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.08.003
Bolger, F., Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2008). Market entry decisions: Effects of absolute and relative confidence. Experimental Psychology, 55(2), 113-120. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.55.2.113
Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2008). Size doesn't really matter: Ambiguity aversion in Ellsberg urns with few balls. Experimental Psychology, 55(1), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.55.1.31
Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Bolger, F. (2007). Asymmetric dominance and phantom decoy effects in games. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 104(2), 193-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.03.001
Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2007). Ambiguous games: Evidence for strategic ambiguity aversion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(8), 1083-1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210600866354
Pulford, B. D., & Sohal, H. (2006). The influence of personality on HE Students’ confidence in their academic abilities. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 1409-1419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.05.010 The factor structure of the Individual Learning Profile (ILP) measure of self-confidence in academic ability.
Pulford, B. D., Johnson, A., & Awaida, M. (2005). A cross-cultural study of predictors of self-handicapping in university students. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 727-737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.02.008
Fontaine, R., Salvano-Pardieu, V., Renoux, P., & Pulford, B. D. (2004). Judgement of blame in Alzheimer's disease sufferers. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 11(4), 379 - 394. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825580490521313
Watson, A. E., & Pulford, B. D. (2004). Personality differences in high risk sports amateurs and instructors. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 99, 83-94. https://doi.org/10.2466%2Fpms.99.1.83-94
Fontaine, R., Salvano-Pardieu, V., Crouzet, S., & Pulford, B. D. (2002). Physically abused and nonmaltreated boys’ moral judgments of violence. Child Study Journal, 32(4), 215-230.
Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (1997). Overconfidence: Feedback and item difficulty effects. Personality and Individual Differences, 23(1), 125-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00028-7
Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (1996). Overconfidence, base rates, and outcome positivity/negativity of predicted events. British Journal of Psychology, 87, 431-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1996.tb02600.x