Attending Faculty

Tim Mullett

Tim Mullett is an associate professor in the behavioural science group at Warwick Business School. He attained his PhD at the University of Nottingham studying Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. He then attained a role as research fellow in the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science based at Warwick. He also held roles at at the University of Cambridge and University of Bath before taking up his current position in WBS.

Tim's research uses a variety of methodologies including eye tracking and neuroimaging to better understand how people make choices and search for information. A major part of his work applies big data analysis to real world datasets to examine how people make choices outside of the lab.

In addition to publishing in leading academic journals, Tim works with a range of policy makers and organisations including several UK police forces, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Office for Students, and the Which? consumer group.

Tim's research focusses on how people make choices, and search information when comparing options. This research employs a wide range of methods. This includes traditional behavioural experiments in the lab, computer simulations of cognitive models, eye tracking, neuroimaging, and big data analysis.

Neil Stewart

I studied Natural Sciences and Experimental Psychology at Cambridge before moving to Warwick in 1997. In 2017 I joined WBS as a Professor of Behavioural Science. I am currently Pro-Dean for Research, Engagement & Impact.

I work in the field of behavioural and economic science, and apply this research to problems in the real world. Right now I am working on consumer decision making using credit card transaction data, on criminal and other bad behaviour using crime and incident records, and on a mathematical model of consumer decision making called decision by sampling. I use a mixture of laboratory experiments, field experiments, and data science techniques applied to large data sets.

Liam Delaney

Liam Delaney is the Head of Department for Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE.

His career has focused at the intersection of economics, psychology, and public policy applications and he has developed a number of programmes in this area. From 2017 to 2020 he was Professor of Economics at University College Dublin, where he led the development of MSc in Behavioural Economics and Geary Institute Experimental Lab. Prior to this, he was Deputy Dean of Stirling Management School, and led the development of the Stirling Behavioural Science centre.

As Deputy Director of the UCD Geary Institute, he led the development of a range of project areas, as well as leading a number of long-run empirical projects on health and wellbeing. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University, and visiting fellow at the University of Sydney, and has also been an MSCA fellow.

He has published a number of papers on the connection between mental health and economic outcomes, measuring preferences, and ethical aspects of behavioural policy in journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Demography, Health Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Economic Journal, Journal of European Economics Association, and Psychological Science.

He is developing research projects across three areas: the ethical foundations and trustworthiness of behavioural public policy, mental health and economic policy, and the measurement foundations of behavioural welfare economics. He will be developing research projects and supervising students in these and related areas.

Kate Laffan

Dr Kate Laffan is an Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science. She has a BComm International (majoring in Economics) from University College Dublin and the University of Salamanca Spain and an MSc and PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. Her PhD titled ‘Issues realting to Wellbeing, Behaviour and the Environment’ was funded by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Kate’s research lies at the intersection of psychology and economics and she uses primarily quantitative methods including lab, field and online experiments, as well as surveys and secondary data analysis, to investigate the drivers of human behaviour and wellbeing and design and test interventions to shape how people act. She has a particular interest in environmental and pro-social behaviours and in the reciprocal relationship between what people do and how they feel in these domains.

Kate was awarded the prestigious Marie-Skowldolska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission to investigate the intention-behaviour gaps in environmentally significant consumption behaviours such as diet and transport and she has ongoing streams of work on this topic, as well as on using behavioural science to promote sustainability within organisations.

Kate is committed to policy impact. She has worked with a wide range of government bodies, charities, international organisations and private companies on the application of behavioural science to policy challenges. Most recently Kate spent two years as a Behavioural Science Fellow at the OECD, working in their Executive Directorate to put behavioural insights into practice to promote sustainability and management excellence. Kate also co-leads a working group in the UN’s One Planet Network on Behavioural Insights for Sustainable Lifestyles and Organisations.

Michael Muthukrishna

Michael Muthukrishna is Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. He is also Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD, Affiliate of the LSE Data Science Institute, Fellow at the Charter Cities Institute, Director of the PhD Programme in Psychological and Behavioural Science, and Technical Director of The Database of Religious History. He is also a board member of the One Pencil Project, Attain, Besample, and the International Behavioural Public Policy Association (IBPPA).

Professor Muthukrishna's research focuses on answering three broad questions:

(1) Why are humans so different to other animals?

(2) What are the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie culture and social change, and how is information transmitted, maintained, and modified?

(3) How can the answers to these questions be used to tackle some of the challenges we face as a species?

He uses a two-pronged methodological approach to answer these questions, combining mathematical and computational modeling (evolutionary models, game theory models, etc.), experimental and data science methods from psychology and economics, and artificial intelligence. He uses the “Theory of Human Behavior” that emerges from this approach to tackle a variety of related topics including innovation, corruption, the rise of large-scale cooperation, the navigation of cross-cultural differences, governance policy innovation, and how artificial intelligence can cooperate with and enhance human capabilities.

He is the author of "A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going" and founder of LSE Culturalytik and the London School of Artificial Intelligence.

He is particularly interested in the application of research in cultural evolution to public policy.

Nick Chater

Nick Chater joined WBS in 2010, after holding chairs in psychology at Warwick and UCL. His research focuses on the cognitive and social foundations of rationality, with applications to business and public policy. He has (co-)written more than two hundred research papers and six books. His research has won awards including the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal (1996); the Experimental Psychology Society Prize (1997); and the Cognitive Science Society's life-time achievement award, the David E Rumelhart Prize (to be awarded in 2023). His book, The Mind is Flat, won the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award in 2019, for Best book in Clinical Psychology. Nick is a fellow of the British Academy, the Cognitive Science Society and the Association for Psychological Science. He is a co-founder of the research consultancy Decision Technology; has served on the advisory board of the Behavioural Insight Team (popularly known as the 'Nudge Unit'); and been a member of the UK government's Climate Change Committee. He co-created, and was resident scientist on, eight series of the BBC Radio 4 show The Human Zoo.

Cognitive and behavioural sciences, especially reasoning, decision making and language. Experimental, computational and mathematical studies of basic mental processes. Applications to public policy and the private sector.

Joshua Fullard

Joshua Fullard is an Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School. Before joining the University of Warwick, he was a Lecturer at the University of Essex, Department of Economics, a Senior Researcher at The Education Policy Institute and a Visiting Research Fellow at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education.

Joshua's research agenda is focused on understanding the factors that influence human capital accumulation and occupational choice with a special interest in elicited subjective expectations and teacher labour markets.

His current project uses experimental methods to investigate the determinants of teacher attrition and the accuracy of teachers beliefs about non-teaching labour market opportunities.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.

Andrea Isoni

Andrea joined the Behavioural Science Group at WBS in 2012. He obtained his PhD in Economics at the University of East Anglia in 2009. He has previously worked as Lecturer in Environmental and Resource Economics at School of Environmental Sciences of the University of East Anglia, and as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science and at the Department of Economics of the University of Warwick.

Andrea is an experimental and behavioural economist. His research studies human behaviour of under controlled laboratory conditions using insights from economic theory and cognitive psychology. His main interests are in the areas of individual decision-making, in particular reference-dependent preferences and decisions under risk and uncertainty. Andrea is also interested in exploring how market interaction shapes people's preferences, and in various aspects of strategic behaviour, including coordination, bargaining and other-regarding behaviour.

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