BIOGRAPHY
I completed my BSc in Psychology at the University of Essex in 2008. I worked as a research assistant for Dr Tim Rakow, before going on to obtain a Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health to work as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. I returned to the University of Essex in 2010 to begin a 1 + 3 ESRC funded PhD.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
I am researching dual process models of decision making in risk taking. In particular, sequential risk taking tasks such as the Iowa Gambling Task and the Balloon Analogue Risk Taking task. I am also examining physiological measures such as skin conductance.
PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR Tim Rakow
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Walasek, L., Wright, R.J., & Rakow, T. (submitted). Ownership status and the representation of assets of uncertain value: The Balloon Endowment Risk Task (BERT). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
Rakow, T., Wright, R.J., Spiegelhalter, D.J. & Bull, K. (submitted) The pros and cons of funnel plots as a risk communication aid for individual decisions about medical treatment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Rakow, T., Wright, R.J., Bull, K., & Spiegelhalter, D.J. (2012). Simple and multi-state survival curves: Can people learn to use them? Medical Decision Making, DOI: 10.1177/0272989X12451057
Presentations
Wright, R.J., & Rakow, T. (February, 2013). Skin conductance measurement in sequential risk taking tasks. Talk at Judgment and Decision Making PhD Conference at Kingston University, UK.
Wright, R.J., & Rakow, T. (May, 2012) Skin conductance responses in two sequential risk taking tasks. Poster presented at the 31st European Group of Process Tracing Studies Conference, Bolton, UK.
