Research 

I am a judgment and decision making researcher. After graduating from the University of Leicester I taught in higher education from 1996 to 2021, and at the University of Leicester since 2004. My interests are in overconfidence, uncertainty, the communication and perception of confidence, cooperation, team reasoning, behavioural game theory, trust, moral judgment, cheating and dishonesty, and ambiguity aversion. My research has applications in health/medical decision making, financial decision making, and legal decision making.  See my research themes poster. Much of my research has been in collaboration with Professor Andrew Colman.

My PhD was concerned with overconfidence in judgements, but since then I have been working on how people perceive and interpret confidence and uncertainty in communication and how this affects decision making. This has influenced my recent research into advice taking and advice giving. I am also interested in how people trust advice and information from artificial intelligence, and human-autonomy teaming, and am a member of the Leicester AI Network (LAIN).

I have also carried out pedagogic research studying the personality factors that influence students’ confidence and beliefs about their academic abilities, predictors of self-handicapping in students, social comparisons in HE students, and communication and advice giving in virtual learning environments.

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