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

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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

 

Neil Stewart

 

John Wearden

 

Simon Grondin