Dec 06 2023
This week I travelled to New Zealand to attend the 25th edition of the Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference. It was fun to learn that the very first edition of this conference, way back in 1998, was also held at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Apparently, at that first meeting, there were approximately …
Nov 18 2023
This week I traveled to San Francisco to attend the Psychonomic Society’s 64th Annual Meeting and the 44th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. I arrived in town a couple of days early to put on my tourist shoes. I’ve been to SF multiple times before but nonetheless decided to stretch my …
Nov 07 2023
This week the UTS Business School, in partnership with the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists (GAABS), hosted the 2023 UTS Behavioural Lab Conference. This year, the ~75 people in the room shared interests and expertise in behavioural science and its potential application to change behaviour in a way that limits our contribution to climate …
Sep 06 2023
I am very happy to announce the publication of my latest paper, “An investigation of big life decisions” in the journal Judgment and Decision Making. Special thanks go to Ashleigh Powell, Katherine Newton, Nathan Moore, and Rebecca Dooley for helping me to code up the data. Special thanks also to Alex Kroeger for helping me …
Aug 04 2023
A huge welcome to Eunbin O and Nathan Moore who have recently joined me at UTS. At the same time, congratulations and farewell to Ella Bruce who has now completed her PhD and is on her way to bigger and better things. Eunbin will be working for the next 2 years or so on a …
Jun 20 2023
I am very pleased to announce the publication of my latest paper, “Increasing worker motivation using a reward scheme with probabilistic elements” in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. This is a joint paper with Katarina Dankova, Jose Ortiz (“Nano!”), and Ananta Neelim. The paper came into existence in 2016 when the RMIT …
Dec 09 2022
My first visit to Australia’s west-most state took me to Perth to attend the 2022 Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference. The conference theme was “Reconnect & reimagine” as the world started to move on from COVID, which allowed us to see old friends face-to-face for the first time in years. On the afternoon prior …
Nov 22 2022
Today, I was so very pleased to learn the outcome of my promotion application: I have been promoted to Associate Professor! Gosh, what a relief! Putting together a promotion application is a lot of effort. I had a full draft 6 months before the due date and revised and revised and revised after gathering feedback …
Nov 07 2022
Last week the UTS Business School, in partnership with the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists (GAABS), hosted the 2022 UTS Behavioural Lab Conference. What brought together the ~75 people in the room was a shared interest and expertise in behavioural science and the belief that the people in the room – from academia, industry, …
Apr 28 2021
I am very pleased to announce the publication of my new paper, “Who doesn’t read online consumer reviews, and why?” in the journal, Personality and Individual Differences. A few years ago, I worked with the Consumer Policy Research Centre to better understand Australian’s attitudes towards and usage of online consumer reviews (OCRs). There were a …
