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

Matthews, W.J. (in press). Relatively random: Context effects on perceived randomness and predicted outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. (download.pdf)

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

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.

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, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00289. (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. (download pdf)

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. (download pdf)

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.(download pdf + supplementary material pdf).

Matthews, W.J. (2011). Stimulus Repetition and the Perception of Time: The Effects of Prior Exposure on Temporal Discrimination, Judgment, and Production. PLoS ONE, 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. (download pdf)

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

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 pdf)

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. (download pdf)

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. (download pdf)

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

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

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 abstract)

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

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