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2021/in process

Skylark, W.J., Farmer, G.D., & Bahemia, N. (2021). Inference and prefernece in intertemporal choice. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(2), 422-459. link to paper

Skylark, W.J. (Accepted pending revision). More is easier? Testing the role of fluency in the more-credible effect.

Farmer, G.D., Smith, P., Baron-Cohen, S., & Skylark, W.J. (Revision under review). The effect of autism on information sampling during decision-making: An eye-tracking study.

Gheorghiu, A.I., Callan, M.J., & Skylark, W.J. (Under revision). Having less, giving less: The effects of unfavourable social comparisons of affluence on people’s willingness to act for the benefit of others.

Farmer, G.D, Pearson, G.M., Skylark, W.J., Freeman, A.L.J., & Speigelhalter, D.J. (Under revision). Making prognostic algorithms useful in shared decision-making: Patients and clinicians’ requirements for the Predict:Breast Cancer interface.

Skylark, W.J., & Callan, M.J. Personal relative deprivation and reward-based eating: Two exploratory studies. PsyArXiv. Preprint. link to paper

2020

Skylark, W.J., Chan, K.T.F., Farmer, G.D, Gaskin, K.W., & Miller, A.R. (2020). The delay-reward heuristic: What do people expect in intertemporal choice tasks? Judgement and Decision Making, 15(5), 611-629. link to paper

Gheorghiu, A.I., Callan, M.J., & Skylark, W.J. (2020). A thin slice of science communication: Are people's evaluations of TED talks predicted by superficial impressions of the speakers? Social Psychology and Personality Science, 11,  117-125. link to paper

2019

Alempaki, D., Canic, E., Mullett, T.L., Skylark, W.J., Starmer, C., Stewart, N., & Tufano, F. (2019). Re-examining how utility and weighting functions get their shapes: a quasi-adversarial collaboration providing a new interpretation. Management Science, 65, 4841-4862. Open access.

Skylark, W.J., & Farmer, G.D. (2019). Rational decision-making. Sandhurst Occasional Papers. Available here.
 
2018
 
Skylark, W.J. (2018). If John is taller than Jake, where is John? Spatial inference from magnitude comparison. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 1113-1129.

Skylark, W.J., & Prabhu-Naik, S. (2018). A new test of the risk-reward heuristic. Judgment and Decision Making, 13, 73-78. Open access

Skylark, W.J., Carr, M., & McComas, C.L. (2018). Who says "larger" and who says "smaller"? Individual differences in the language of comparison. Judgment and Decision Making, 13, 547-561. Open access.

Kim, H., Callan, M. J., Gheorghiu, A. I., & Skylark, W. J. (2018). Social comparison processes in the experience of personal relative deprivation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48, 519-532. Open access.

Versluys, T.M.M., Foley, R.A., & Skylark, W.J. (2018). The influence of leg-to-body ratio, arm-to-body ratio, and intra-limb ratio on human male attractiveness. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 171790, 1-12. Open access.

Brick, C., Freeman, A.L.J., Wooding, S., Skylark, W.J., Marteau, T.M., & Spiegelhalter, D.J. (2018). Winners and losers: communicating the potential impacts of policies. Palgrave Communications, 4, 69, 1-13. Open access.

2017

Gheorghiu, A.I., Callan, M.J., & Skylark, W.J. (2017). Facial appearance affects science communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 5970-5975. Open access. Here are the data

Farmer, G.D., Baron-Cohen, S., & Skylark, W.J. (2017). People with Autism Spectrum Conditions make more consistent decisions. Psychological Science, 28, 1067-1076. Open access.

Skylark, W.J., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2017). Initial evidence that non-clinical autistic traits are associated with lower income. Molecular Autism, 8: 61, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s13229-017-0179-z. Open access.

Harvey, A. J., Callan, M. J., Sutton, R. M., Foulsham, T., & Matthews, W. J. (2017). Selective exposure to deserved outcomes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 33-43. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.10.001 link to paper

Callan, M.J., Kim, H., Gheorghiu, A.I., & Matthews, W.J. (2017). The interrelations between social class, personal relative deprivation, and prosociality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(6), 660-669. Open access.

Walasek, L., Rakow, T., & Matthews, W.J. (2017). When does construction enhance product value? Investigating the combined effects of object assembly and ownership on valuation. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 144-156. doi: 10.1002/bdm.1931 link to paper

Kim, H., Callan, M.J., Gheorghiu, A.I., & Matthews, W.J. (2017). Social comparison, personal relative deprivation, and materialism, British Journal of Social Psychology. 56, 373-392. Open access

Skylark, W.J., & Gheorghiu, A.I. (2017). Further evidence that the effects of repetition on subjective time depend on repetition probability. Frontiers in Psychology, 8: 1915. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01915. Open access

Versluys, T.M.M., & Skylark, W.J. (2017). The effect of leg-to-body ratio on male attractiveness depends on the ecological validity of the figures. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 170399, doi: 10.1098/rsos.170399.  Open access

Rakow, T., & Skylark, W.J. (2017). Judgement Heuristics. In Ball, L.J., & Thompson, V.A. (Eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. London: Routledge.

2016

Matthews, W.J., & Meck, W.H. (2016). Temporal cognition: Connecting subjective time to perception, attention, and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 142(8), 865-907. doi: 10.1037/bul0000045. link to paper (open access)

Matthews, W.J., & Gheorghiu, A.I. (2016). Repetition, expectation, and the perception of time. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 8, 110-116. link to paper

Stewart, N., Hermens, F., & Matthews, W.J. (2016). Eye movements in risky choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29, 116-136.  link to paper

Matthews, W.J., Gheorghiu, A.I., & Callan, M.J. (2016). Why do we overestimate others' willingness to pay? Judgment and Decision Making, 11(1), 21-39. link to paper

2015

Matthews, W.J. (2015). Time perception: The surprising effects of surprising stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 172-197. doi: 10.1037/xge0000041  link to paper

Callan, M.J., Kim, H., & Matthews, W.J. (2015). Predicting self-rated mental and physical health: The contributions of Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Personal Relative Deprivation. Frontiers in Psychology, 6,  Article 1415, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01415. link to paper

Callan, M.J., Kim, H., & Matthews, W.J. (2015). Age differences in social comparison tendency and Personal Relative Deprivation. Personality and Individual Differences, 87, 196-199. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.08.003 link to paper

Micklewright, D., Parry, D., Robinson, T., Deacon, G., Renfree, A., St Clair Gibson, A., & Matthews, W.J. (2015). Risk perception influences athletic pacing strategy. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 47(5), 1026-1037.  doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000500 link to paper

Spurgeon, J., Ward, G., Matthews, W.J., & Farrell, S. (2015). Can the effects of temporal grouping explain the similarities and differences between free recall and serial recall? Memory & Cognition, 43(3), 469-488. doi: 10.3758/s13421-014-0471-5 link to paper

Walasek, L., Matthews, W.J., & Rakow, T. (2015). The need to belong and the value of belongings: Does ostracism change the subjective value of personal possessions? Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 58, 195-204. link to paper

2014

Matthews, W.J., & Dylman, A.S. (2014). The language of magnitude comparison. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 510-520. link to paper

Spurgeon, J., Ward, G., & Matthews, W.J. (2014). Why do participants initiate free recall of short lists of words with the first list item? Toward a general episodic memory explanation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 40(6), 1551-1567. link to paper

Spurgeon, J. Ward, G., & Matthews, W.J. (2014). Examining the relationship between immediate serial recall and immediate free recall: Common effects of Phonological Loop variables, but only limited evidence for the Phonological Loop. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 1110-1141. link to paper

Matthews, W.J., Terhune, D.B., van Rijn, H., Eagleman, D.M., Sommer, M.A., & Meck, W.H. (2014). Subjective duration as a signature of coding efficiency: Emerging links among stimulus repetition, predictive coding, and cortical GABA levels. Timing and Time Perception Reviews, 1, Article 5, 1-11. link to paper

Harvey, A.J., Callan, M.J., & Matthews, W.J. (2014). How much does effortful thinking underlie observers' reactions to victimization? Social Justice Research, 27, 175-208. link to paper

Matthews, W.J., & Meck, W.H. (2014). Time perception: The bad news and the good. WIREs Cognitive Science, 5, 429-446. link to paper

Francis, G., Tanzman, J., & Matthews, W.J. Excess success for psychology articles in the journal Science. PLoS ONE, 9(12), e114255, 1-15. link to paper

2013

Matthews, W.J. (2013). How does sequence structure affect the judgment of time?  Exploring a weighted sum of segments model. Cognitive Psychology, 66, 259-282. link to paper

Matthews, W.J. (2013). Relatively random: Context effects on perceived randomness and predicted outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 1642-1648. link to paper

Darlow, H.M., Dylman, A.S., Gheorghiu, A.I., & Matthews, W.J. (2013). Do changes in the pace of events affect one-off judgments of duration? PLoS ONE, 8, e59847. link to paper (data available here)

2012

Matthews, W.J. (2012). How much do incidental values affect the judgment of time? Psychological Science, 23, 1432-1434. link to paper

Matthews, W.J., & Grondin, S. (2012). On the replication of Kristofferson’s (1980) quantal timing for duration discrimination: Some learning, but no quanta and not much of a Weber constant. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74(5), 1056-1072.  link to paper

2011

Matthews, W.J. (2011). How do changes in speed affect the perception of duration? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(5), 1617-1627. link to paper

Matthews, W.J., Stewart, N., & Wearden, J.H. (2011). Stimulus intensity and the perception of duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(1), 303-313. link to paper

Matthews, W.J. (2011). What might judgment and decision making research be like if we took a Bayesian approach to hypothesis testing? Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 843-856. link to paper

Brown, G.D.A., & Matthews, W.J. (2011). Decision by sampling and memory distinctiveness: range effects from rank-based models of judgment and choice. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, Article 299, 1-4. link to paper

Navarro-Martinez, D., Salisbury, L.C., Lemon, K.N., Stewart, N., Matthews, W.J., & Harris, A.J.L. (2011). Minimum required payment and supplemental information disclosure effects on consumer debt repayment decisions. Journal of Marketing Research, 48, S60-S77. link to paper

Matthews, W.J. (2011). Stimulus Repetition and the Perception of Time: The Effects of Prior Exposure on Temporal Discrimination, Judgment, and Production. PLoS ONE, 6, e19815. link to paper

Matthews, W.J. (2011). Can we use verbal estimation to dissect the internal clock? Differentiating the effects of pacemaker rate, switch latencies, and judgment processes. Behavioural Processes, 86, 68-74. link to paper

2010

Matthews, W.J., Buratto, L.G., & Lamberts, K. (2010). Exploring the memory advantage for moving scenes. Visual Cognition, 18, 1393-1419. link to paper

Matthews, W. J. (2010). The gambler’s fallacy in retrospect: A supplementary comment on Oppenheimer and Monin (2009). Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 133-137. link to paper

2009

Matthews, W. J., & Stewart, N. (2009). The effect of inter-stimulus interval on sequential effects in absolute identification. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2014-2029. link to paper

Matthews, W. J., & Stewart, N. (2009). Psychophysics and the judgment of price: Judging complex objects on a non-physical dimension elicits sequential effects like those in perceptual tasks. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 64-81. link to paper

Buratto, L. G., Matthews, W. J., & Lamberts, K. (2009). When are moving images remembered better? Study-test congruence and the dynamic superiority effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1896-1903. link to paper

Stewart, N., & Matthews, W. J. (2009). Relative judgment and knowledge of category structure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,16, 594-599. link to paper

2008

Matthews, W. J., & Adams, A. (2008). Another reason why adults find it hard to draw accurately. Perception, 37, 628-630. link to paper

Matthews, W. J., & Stewart, N. (2008). The effect of stimulus range on two-interval frequency discrimination. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, EL45-EL51. link to paper

Henson, R. N., Mouchlianitis, E., Matthews, W. J., & Kouider, S. (2008). Electrophysiological correlates of masked face priming. Neuroimage, 40, 884-895. link to paper

2007

Matthews, W. J., Benjamin, C., & Osborne, C. (2007). Memory for moving and static images. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 989-993. link to paper