Erasmus+ trainee: Eike Buabang

Eike worked as an intern in the Leicester Judgement and Decision Making lab with Dr Briony Pulford in the autumn term of 2016. Eike came from the University of Leiden with the financial aid of an Erasmus+ traineeship.

The research project tested the confidence heuristic in face to face and internet mediated settings and contributed the third experiment in the paper:

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. doi: 10.1037/xge0000471