Andrew M. Colman
Professor of Psychology
Contact details:
Tel: 0116 229 7191
E-mail: amc@le.ac.uk
Personal Statement:
I have a BA (Combined Studies), BA (Hons, Psychology), MA and PhD (Psychology), FHEA, FBPsS, and CPsychol. I taught at Cape Town and Rhodes Universities before the University of Leicester, where I was promoted to Reader in 1984 and Professor in 2000. My research interests are in judgment and decision making, game theory and experimental games, and psychometrics. I am currently the featured author for science and technology, Oxford Reference. My teaching focuses on judgment and decision making and social psychology. View my Amazon author page. Visit the Judgment and Decision Making Research Group. View my CV online.
RESEARCH | PUBLICATIONS | BOOKS | MEDIA | PHOTOS | TEACHING
Selected recent publications
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Colman, A. M., Krockow, E. M., Chattoe-Brown, E., & Tarrant, C. (2019). Medical prescribing and antibiotic resistance: A game-theoretic analysis of a potentially catastrophic social dilemma. PLOS ONE, 14(4), 1–13. e0215480. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215480
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Colman, A. M., & Gold, N. (2018). Team reasoning: Solving the puzzle of coordination. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(5), 1770–1783. doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1399-0
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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
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Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., Lawrence, C. L., & Krockow, E. M. (2017). Reasons for cooperating in repeated interactions: Social value orientations, fuzzy traces, reciprocity, and activity bias. Decision, 4(2), 102-122. doi:10.1037/dec0000057
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Rapoport, A., Seale, D. A., & Colman, A. M. (2015). Is tit-for-tat the answer? On the conclusions drawn from Axelrod’s tournaments. PLOS ONE, 10(7), 1-11, e0134128. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134128
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Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Lawrence, C. L. (2014). Explaining strategic coordination: Cognitive hierarchy theory, strong Stackelberg reasoning, and team reasoning. Decision, 1, 35-58. doi:10.1037/dec0000001
