BIOGRAPHY
William completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, where he won the Frank Smart prize for zoology and the Passingham prize for psychology. He taught at the University of Leicester and undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Warwick before joining Essex in September 2009.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
My work concerns how people make judgments, both of basic perceptual properties and of more complex, real-world dimensions like price. My recent work has involved low-level, psychophysical studies – primarily of time perception – and high-level work on the influence of context on economic and social decisions. A particular focus of the latter is the effect that minimum payment information has on credit card debt.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Useful Links:
Society for Judgment and Decision Making
Experimental Psychology Society
The R project for statistical computing
DMDX: freely available software for experimental control
PsychoPy: freely available software for visual experiments
Collaborators
William Matthews, PhD.
Lecturer & Student Careers Officer
Contact Details
Room 2.718
Department of Psychology
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)1206 - 873818
Fax: +44 (0)1206 - 873801
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