Professor Marie Juanchich
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Email
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Location
4.718, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I am a behavioural scientist with a PhD in socio-cognitive psychology. Over the past ten years, my work has been aimed at empowering people to make better decisions in a range of contexts (e.g., climate change, business hiring, daily sexism). This covers globally two lines of investigation: My first line of research focuses on empowering people by helping them understand uncertainty and probabilities. For example, I found that framing climate change probabilities negatively (e.g., it is unlikely vs., there is a chance that the sea level will rise) leads to more risk taking and reduces trust. My second line of research focuses on reducing discrimination and increasing diversity. For example, we test how decision-making hiring processes facilitate the inclusion of diverse candidate and how sexist attitudes relate to the acceptance of rape myths (e.g., false beliefs about rape victims). In my work I strive to follow the best scientific standards for reliable evidence (e.g., pre-registered research protocols, multi-lab replication studies, data sharing). I am always keen to collaborate with external partners and I currently have a number of collaborations with government services, local councils, and businesses, focusing for example on increasing green behaviours at work or increasing diversity in hiring decisions.
Qualifications
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PhD in Psychology
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Master's in Psychology University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Director of impact, Psychology, University of Essex (1/2/2016 - 30/7/2021)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Risk communication
Few of us can say for sure what will happen tomorrow, next week or next months, less alone predict what will happen in ten years (as for climate change). Whether events will happen or not is therefore uncertain or *risky* and is often quantified to be communicated (e.g., probabilities in weather forecasts, odds in horse races, intervals in sea rise predictions). I am researching ways to improve the communication of uncertainty and risk to help people to make better-informed decisions. Some of my projects are fairly theoretical (e.g., which vocal cues are used to mark the uncertainty of the speaker?) and some are more applied (e.g., is it better to describe the risk of drugs' adverse side effects in words or numbers?).
Gender equality
I am interested in testing evidence-based strategies to encourage people to stand up to sexism and reduce misogynist discourse (e.g., online, in magazines).
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Understanding Our Place in the World (PS101)
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Growing in the World (PS102)
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Experiencing Emotion (PS103)
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Thinking and the Mind (PS104)
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The Social World (PS105)
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The Social Brain (PS106)
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Psychology of Global Challenges (PS424)
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Decision making science in theory and practice (PS512)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Psychology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 29/1/2025
Degree subject: Clinical Psychology (D Clin Psych)
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 1/11/2023
Degree subject: Psychology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 10/10/2023
Degree subject: Psychology
Degree type: Master of Science (by Dissertation)
Awarded date: 6/2/2020
Degree subject: Psychology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 15/1/2020
Degree subject: Psychology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 30/10/2019
Publications
Publications (2)
Sirota, M., Šrol, J., Lisi, M., Juanchich, M., Guglani, K., Silverstein, P., Buchanan, EM., Stephens, C., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Barbosa, S., Pypno-Blajda, K., Montefinese, M., Wan, MF., Fellnhofer, K., Baskin, E., Elsherif, MM., HU, B., Kukona, A., MIRISOLA, A., Batres, C., Karababa, A., Lou, NM., Wolfe, K., Santos-Carrasco, D., Röer, JP., Miller, JK., Storage, D., Rangaswamy, M., Lamm, C., Dinić, BM., Pronizius, E., Sedighi, M., Walker, B., Özdemir, F., Kačmár, P., Kowal, M., Cavdan, M., Jaeger, B., Korbmacher, M., Ghane-Ezabadi, A., Lu, JG., Nock, NL., Camargo, A., Manríquez-Robles, D., Corredor, J., Ciria, A., Ferreira, PRS., Purić, D., Zheng, W., Giannouli, V., Fay, N., Budak, N., Yüvrük, E., Pfuhl, G., Mohammed, MD., Roth, LHO., Era, V., von Götz, SA., Marozzi, M., Karacoşkun, ME., Walga, TK., Barberia, I., Mekiš Recek, Ž., Barzykowski, K., Esteves, G., Olivera-LaRosa, A., Grigoryev, D., Gallyamova, A., Komyaginskaya, E., Cellini, N., Arriaga, P., Godbersen, H., Ruiz-Fernandez, S., K, AJ., Sandford, A., SYED, UG., Pedović, I., Giammusso, I., Mioni, G., Senderecka, M., Ross, RM., N.V, S., Meier, Z., Evans, TR., da C. N. Soares, MT., Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J., Stieger, S., Stephen, ID., Zangl, M., Hémon, B., Kielińska-Kancerek, J., Lacko, D., Šakan, D., Thomas, S., Becker, M., Stewart, SLK., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Hojjat, R., Ogbonnaya, C., ORENES, I., V, PM., Szumowska, E., Studzinska, A., Corradi, G., Aldunate, N., Pavlov, YG., Jiang, X., Baník, G., Stanley, S., Lep, Z., Vaidis, DC., Zsido, AN., Taşfiliz, D., Bollich-Ziegler, KL., Protzko, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Malinakova, K., Novák, L., Fusco, G., Pedretti, LM., Aglioti, SM., Griffin, SS., Seri, R., Vadillo, MA., Lewis, DMG., Schei, V., Vilares, I., Gjoneska, B., Mak, MHC., Sánchez-Mora, J., Trémolière, B., Sonmez, F., Marchetti, I., Giugovaz, A., Pedretti, LM., Colpizzi, I., Hanulíková, A., Zezelj, I., Alcalá, JA., Durmuş, B., Iyer, A., Borinca, I., Verbruggen, F., Chen, Z., Notebaert, W., Policarpio, MR., Karadeniz, G., de Kock, F., de la Casa, LG., Vazirian, MH., Pelica, S., Boukarras, S., Morvinski, C., Sorokowski, P., Kütük, B., Magalhães, M., Galanaki, E., Özdoğru, AA., Heydari, A., Xia, Z., Davis, WE., Spasovski, O., Levitan, CA., Tavel, P., Susa, KJ., Siow, YY., Gill, R., Lima, TJS., Kruse, ET., Buczny, J., Perrone, E., Calderan, M., Arvanitis, A., Collins, WM., Boucher, L., Čavojová, V., Cervera-Torres, S., Louis, WR., Kundtová Klocová, E., Carreiro, MJ., Calvillo, DP., Dunham, Y., Ojedokun, O., El-Haddad, RW., Ma-Kellams, C., Ocklenburg, S., Gupta, R., Mundorf, A., Hadjisolomou, SP., Ojukwu, A., Verschuere, B., Baldassarri, A., Huynh, A., Bouguettaya, A., Peterburs, J., Eker, I., Juncu, S., Macapagal, PML., Wong, RMM., Chartier, CR., Ragul, L. and Schmidt, K., (2025). Mapping and Increasing Error Correction Behaviour in a Culturally Diverse Sample
Sirota, M., Šrol, J., Lisi, M., Juanchich, M., Guglani, K., Silverstein, P., Buchanan, EM., Stephens, C., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Barbosa, S., Montefinese, M., Wan, MF., Elsherif, MM., Alexandrovich, TD., Brandstätter, E., MengjunLiu, Gao, Y., Pypno-Blajda, K., Fellnhofer, K., Baskin, E., HU, B., MIRISOLA, A., Kukona, A., Batres, C., Verheyen, S., Karababa, A., Lou, NM., Wolfe, K., Santos-Carrasco, D., Röer, JP., Miller, JK., Storage, D., Rangaswamy, M., Lamm, C., Dinić, BM., Pronizius, E., Sedighi, M., Walker, B., Özdemir, F., Kačmár, P., Kowal, M., Cavdan, M., Jaeger, B., Korbmacher, M., Ghane-Ezabadi, A., Nedelkova, D., Lu, JG., Nock, NL., Camargo, A., Manríquez-Robles, D., Corredor, J., Ciria, A., Ferreira, PRS., Purić, D., Zheng, W., Giannouli, V., Byrd, N., Fay, N., Budak, N., Yüvrük, E., Pfuhl, G., Mohammed, MD., Roth, LHO., Era, V., von Götz, SA., Marozzi, M., Karacoşkun, ME., Walga, TK., Barberia, I., Mekiš Recek, Ž., Barzykowski, K., Esteves, G., Olivera-LaRosa, A., Grigoryev, D., Gallyamova, A., Komyaginskaya, E., Cellini, N., Arriaga, P., Godbersen, H., Ruiz-Fernandez, S., K, AJ., Sandford, A., SYED, UG., Pedović, I., Giammusso, I., Mioni, G., Senderecka, M., Ross, RM., N.V, S., Meier, Z., Evans, TR., da C. N. Soares, MT., Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J., Stieger, S., Stephen, ID., Zangl, M., Hémon, B., Branch, J., Kielińska-Kancerek, J., Lacko, D., Šakan, D., Thomas, S., Becker, M., Stewart, SLK., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Hojjat, R., Ogbonnaya, C., ORENES, I., V, PM., Szumowska, E., Studzinska, A., Corradi, G., Aldunate, N., Pavlov, YG., Jiang, X., Baník, G., Stanley, S., Lep, Z., Vaidis, DC., Zsido, AN., Taşfiliz, D., Bollich-Ziegler, KL., Protzko, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Malinakova, K., Novák, L., Fusco, G., Pedretti, LM., Aglioti, SM., Griffin, SS., Seri, R., Vadillo, MA., Lewis, DMG., Schei, V., Vilares, I., Gjoneska, B., Mak, MHC., Sánchez-Mora, J., Trémolière, B., Sonmez, F., Marchetti, I., Giugovaz, A., Pedretti, LM., Colpizzi, I., Hanulíková, A., Zezelj, I., Alcalá, JA., Durmuş, B., Iyer, A., Borinca, I., Verbruggen, F., Chen, Z., Notebaert, W., Policarpio, MR., Karadeniz, G., de Kock, F., de la Casa, LG., Vazirian, MH., Pelica, S., Boukarras, S., Morvinski, C., Sorokowski, P., Kütük, B., Magalhães, M., Galanaki, E., Özdoğru, AA., Heydari, A., Xia, Z., Davis, WE., Spasovski, O., Levitan, CA., Tavel, P., Susa, KJ., Siow, YY., Gill, R., Lima, TJS., Kruse, ET., Buczny, J., Perrone, E., Calderan, M., Arvanitis, A., Collins, WM., Boucher, L., Čavojová, V., Cervera-Torres, S., Louis, WR., Kundtová Klocová, E., Carreiro, MJ., Calvillo, DP., Dunham, Y., Ojedokun, O., El-Haddad, RW., Ma-Kellams, C., Ocklenburg, S., Gupta, R., Mundorf, A., Hadjisolomou, SP., Ojukwu, A., Verschuere, B., Baldassarri, A., Huynh, A., Bouguettaya, A., Peterburs, J., Eker, I., Juncu, S., Macapagal, PML., Wong, RMM., Le, DAK., Ragul, L., Unanue, W., Darren, Jamaluddin, SF., Guvenc, IB., Şahin, SM., Farny, Z., Chalik, L., Colombo, C., P, DKK., V L, T., ASATSA, S., Mhizha, S., Caughey, S., Goh, YJ., Kocalar, HE., Meijer, E., Haeffel, G., Kohl, AT., Justus, BJ., Sáez-Linero, C., Flowe, HD., Lelonkiewicz, JR., Arinze, NC., Adi, SP., Khakim, Z., Molloy, MV., Bavoľár, J., Grassegger, W., De Amesti, VS., Wagner, K., Correia, R., Navarrete, G., Tsabitah, HF., Zhang, D-W., Delfino, G., Syed, UG., Fedeli, F., Priyadi, S., Nuryanti, L., Thomas, SG., Xi, TC., Hartanto, A., Adu, P., Moossun, S., Yücel, E., Balim, S., Boga, M., Beltrán, D., Ekici, H., Zloteanu, M., Zakeri, M., Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, B., Leshoska, V., Chartier, CR. and Schmidt, K., (2025). Mapping and Increasing Error Correction Behaviour in a Culturally Diverse Sample
Journal articles (82)
Gross, R., Sievert, EDC., Korn, L., Juanchich, M., Sirota, M., Betsch, C. and Böhm, R., (2025). Emphasizing the importance of prudent antibiotic use decreases unrealistic perceptions of new antibiotic discoveries. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 7 (2), dlaf034-
Sayer, H., Juanchich, M., Lamarche, VM. and Whiley, LA., (2025). Standing Up to Sexism: Does Challenging Sexist Comments Have Transformational Benefits in How Women Value Themselves and Other Women?. Sex Roles. 91 (6)
Juanchich, M., Whiley, LA. and Sirota, M., (2024). Self-serving perception of charitable donation request: An effective cognitive strategy to boost benefits and reduce drawbacks. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 37 (1)
Sirota, M., Navarrete, G. and Juanchich, M., (2024). When intuitive Bayesians need to be good readers: The problem-wording effect on Bayesian reasoning. Cognition. 245, 105722-105722
Cole, GG., Millett, AC. and Juanchich, M., (2024). The social learning account of trypophobia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 77 (10), 2076-2083
Juanchich, M., Oakley, CM., Sayer, H., Holford, DL., Bruine de Bruin, W., Booker, C., Chadborn, T., Vallee-Tourangeau, G., Wood, R. and Sirota, M., (2024). Vaccination invitations sent by warm and competent medical professionals disclosing risks and benefits increase trust and booking intention and reduce inequalities between ethnic groups.. Health Psychology. 43 (10), 718-729
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2024). Seeing an apocalyptic post-antibiotic future lowers antibiotics expectations and requests. Communications Medicine. 4 (1), 141-
Halvor Teigen, K. and Juanchich, M., (2024). Do claims about certainty make estimates less certain?. Cognition. 252, 105911-105911
Jolles, D., Lamarche, VM., Rolison, JJ. and Juanchich, M., (2023). Who will I be when I retire? The role of organizational commitment, group memberships and retirement transition framing on older worker’s anticipated identity change in retirement. Current Psychology. 42 (18), 15727-15741
Teigen, KH., Juanchich, M. and Løhre, E., (2023). Combining verbal forecasts: The role of directionality and the reinforcement effect. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 36 (2)
Whiley, LA., Walasek, L. and Juanchich, M., (2023). Contributions to reducing online gender harassment: Social re-norming and appealing to empathy as tried-and-failed techniques. Feminism and Psychology. 33 (1), 83-104
Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Holford, DL., (2023). Rationally irrational: When people do not correct their reasoning errors even if they could. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 152 (7), 2052-2073
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Halvor Teigen, K., (2023). People prefer to predict middle, most likely quantitative outcomes (not extreme ones), but they still over-estimate their likelihood.. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76 (11), 2629-2649
Wood, RM., Juanchich, M., Ramirez, M. and Zhang, S., (2023). Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content. Social Science and Medicine. 324, 115863-115863
Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U., Abellán, M., Adayeva, X., Ay, FC., Barron, K., Berry, Z., Bönte, W., Brütt, K., Bulutay, M., Campos-Mercade, P., Cardella, E., Claassen, MA., Cornelissen, G., Dawson, IGJ., Delnoij, J., Demiral, EE., Dimant, E., Doerflinger, JT., Dold, M., Emery, C., Fiala, L., Fiedler, S., Freddi, E., Fries, T., Gasiorowska, A., Glogowsky, U., M. Gorny, P., Gretton, JD., Grohmann, A., Hafenbrädl, S., Handgraaf, M., Hanoch, Y., Hart, E., Hennig, M., Hudja, S., Hütter, M., Hyndman, K., Ioannidis, K., Isler, O., Jeworrek, S., Jolles, D., Juanchich, M., Pratap KC, R., Khadjavi, M., Kugler, T., Li, S., Lucas, B., Mak, V., Mechtel, M., Merkle, C., Meyers, EA., Mollerstrom, J., Nesterov, A., Neyse, L., Nieken, P., Nussberger, A., Palumbo, H., Peters, K., Pirrone, A., Qin, X., Rahal, RM., Rau, H., Rincke, J., Ronzani, P., Roth, Y., Saral, AS., Schmitz, J., Schneider, F., Schram, A., Schudy, S., Schweitzer, ME., Schwieren, C., Scopelliti, I., Sirota, M., Sonnemans, J., Soraperra, I., Spantig, L., Steimanis, I., Steinmetz, J., Suetens, S., Theodoropoulou, A., Urbig, D., Vorlaufer, T., Waibel, J., Woods, D., Yakobi, O., Yilmaz, O., Zaleskiewicz, T., Zeisberger, S. and Holzmeister, F., (2023). Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (23), e2215572120-
Jolles, D., Juanchich, M. and Piccoli, B., (2023). Too Old to Be a Diversity Hire. Choice Bundling Shown to Increase Gender-Diverse Hiring Decisions Fails to Increase Age Diversity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153 (11), 2771-2788
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Holford, DL., (2023). How Should Doctors Frame the Risk of a Vaccine's Adverse Side Effects? It Depends on How Trustworthy They Are.. Medical Decision Making. 43 (7-8), 835-849
Pownall, M., Pennington, CR., Norris, E., Juanchich, M., Smailes, D., Russell, S., Gooch, D., Evans, TR., Persson, S., Mak, MHC., Tzavella, L., Monk, R., Gough, T., Benwell, CSY., Elsherif, M., Farran, E., Gallagher-Mitchell, T., Kendrick, LT., Bahnmueller, J., Nordmann, E., Zaneva, M., Gilligan-Lee, K., Bazhydai, M., Jones, A., Sedgmond, J., Holzleitner, I., Reynolds, J., Moss, J., Farrelly, D., Parker, AJ. and Clark, K., (2023). Evaluating the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Study Preregistration in the Undergraduate Dissertation. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 6 (4)
Holford, DL., Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2022). Ambiguity and unintended inferences about risk messages for COVID-19. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 28 (3), 486-508
Morey, RD., Kaschak, MP., Díez-Álamo, AM., Glenberg, AM., Zwaan, RA., Lakens, D., Ibáñez, A., García, A., Gianelli, C., Jones, JL., Madden, J., Alifano, F., Bergen, B., Bloxsom, NG., Bub, DN., Cai, ZG., Chartier, CR., Chatterjee, A., Conwell, E., Cook, SW., Davis, JD., Evers, ERK., Girard, S., Harter, D., Hartung, F., Herrera, E., Huettig, F., Humphries, S., Juanchich, M., Kühne, K., Lu, S., Lynes, T., Masson, MEJ., Ostarek, M., Pessers, S., Reglin, R., Steegen, S., Thiessen, ED., Thomas, LE., Trott, S., Vandekerckhove, J., Vanpaemel, W., Vlachou, M., Williams, K. and Ziv-Crispel, N., (2022). A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 29 (2), 613-626
Holford, DL., Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2022). Characteristics of quantifiers moderate the framing effect. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 35 (1)
Sirota, M., Thorpe, A. and Juanchich, M., (2022). Explaining and reducing the public’s expectations of antibiotics: A utility-based signal detection theory approach. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 11 (4), 587-597
Teigen, KH., Juanchich, M. and Løhre, E., (2022). What is a “likely” amount? Representative (modal) values are considered likely even when their probabilities are low. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 171, 104166-104166
Jolles, D., Holford, D., Juanchich, M., Buchannan, K. and Piccoli, B., (2022). Frontline employees are ready to accept smart energy-saving technologies, especially when they are engaged at work and concerned about climate change. Occupational Psychology Outlook. 1 (1), 33-39
Sirota, M., Theodoropoulou, A. and Juanchich, M., (2021). Disfluent fonts do not help people to solve math and non-math problems regardless of their numeracy. Thinking and Reasoning. 27 (1), 142-159
Sirota, M., Dewberry, C., Juanchich, M., Valuš, L. and Marshall, A., (2021). Measuring Cognitive Reflection without Maths: Development and Validation fo the Verbal Cognitive Reflection Test. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 34 (3), 322-343
Thorpe, A., Sirota, M., Orbell, S. and Juanchich, M., (2021). Effect of information on reducing inappropriate expectations and requests for antibiotics. British Journal of Psychology. 112 (3), 804-827
Holford, DL., Juanchich, M., Foulsham, T., Sirota, M. and Clarke, ADF., (2021). Eye-tracking evidence for fixation asymmetries in verbal and numerical quantifier processing. Judgment and Decision Making. 16 (4), 969-1009
Liu, D., Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Orbell, S., (2021). Differences between decisions made using verbal or numerical quantifiers. Thinking and Reasoning. 27 (1), 69-96
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M., Jolles, D. and Whiley, LA., (2021). Are COVID‐19 conspiracies a threat to public health? Psychological characteristics and health protective behaviours of believers. European Journal of Social Psychology. 51 (6), 969-989
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M., Jolles, D. and Whiley, LA., (2021). Are COVID‐19 conspiracies a threat to public health? Psychological characteristics and health protective behaviours of believers. European Journal of Social Psychology. 51 (6), 969-989
Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2020). Do people really prefer verbal probabilities?. Psychological Research. 84 (8), 2325-2338
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Bonnefon, J-F., (2020). Anxiety-induced miscalculations, more than differential inhibition of intuition, explain the gender gap in cognitive reflection. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 33 (4), 427-443
Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2020). Most family physicians report communicating the risks of adverse drug reactions in words (vs. numbers). Applied Cognitive Psychology. 34 (2), 526-534
Thorpe, A., Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Orbell, S., (2020). Action bias in the public’s clinically inappropriate expectations for antibiotics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 26 (3), 422-431
Thorpe, A., Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Orbell, S., (2020). ‘Always take your doctor’s advice’: Does trust moderate the effect of information on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing expectations?. British Journal of Health Psychology. 25 (2), 358-376
Liu, D., Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Orbell, S., (2020). The Intuitive Use of Contextual Information in Decisions made with Verbal and Numerical Quantifiers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 73 (4), 481-494
Juanchich, M., Shepherd, TG. and Sirota, M., (2020). Negations in uncertainty lexicon affect attention, decision-making and trust. Climatic Change. 162 (3), 1677-1698
Liu Xiaodan, D., Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2020). Focus to an attribute with verbal or numerical quantifiers affects the attribute framing effect. Acta Psychologica. 208, 103088-103088
Wheeler, M., Cooper, NR., Andrews, L., Hacker Hughes, J., Juanchich, M., Rakow, T. and Orbell, S., (2020). Outdoor recreational activity experiences improve psychological wellbeing of military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder: Positive findings from a pilot study and a randomised controlled trial. PLoS One. 15 (11), e0241763-e0241763
Whiley, LA., Sayer, H. and Juanchich, M., (2020). Motherhood and guilt in a pandemic: Negotiating the “new” normal with a feminist identity. Gender, Work & Organization. 28 (S2), 612-619
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M., Jolles, D. and whiley, L., (2020). Are COVID-19 conspiracies a threat to public health? Psychological characteristics and health protective behaviours of believers
Liu, DX., Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2020). Focus to an attribute with verbal or numerical quantifiers affects the attribute framing effect.
Holford, DL., Juanchich, M., Foulsham, T., Sirota, M. and Clarke, ADF., (2020). Eye Tracking of Quantifier Formats
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Bonnefon, J-F., (2019). The polite wiggle-room effect in charity donation decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 32 (2), 179-193
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2019). Ratio format shapes health decisions: The practical significance of the "1-in-X" effect. Medical Decision Making. 39 (1), 32-40
Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2019). Not as gloomy as we thought Reassessing how the public understands probability of precipitation forecasts. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 31 (1), 116-129
Walasek, L., Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2019). Adaptive cooperation in the face of social exclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 82, 35-46
Løhre, E., Juanchich, M., Sirota, M., Teigen, KH. and Shepherd, TG., (2019). Climate scientists’ wide prediction intervals are more likely but perceived to be less certain. Weather, Climate and Society. 11 (3), 565-575
Liu, D., Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Orbell, S., (2019). People Overestimate Verbal Quantities of Nutrients on Nutrition Labels. Food Quality and Preference. 78, 103739-103739
Sirota, M., Theodoropoulou, A. and Juanchich, M., (2019). A disfluent font does not help people to solve math and non-math problems regardless of their numeracy [Preprint]
Juanchich, M., Walasek, L. and Sirota, M., (2018). Decision-makers are resilient in the face of social exclusion. British Journal of Psychology. 109 (3), 604-630
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2018). Effect of response format on cognitive reflection: Validating a two- and four-option multiple choice question version of the Cognitive Reflection Test. Behavior Research Methods. 50 (6), 2511-2522
Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Bonnefon, J-F., (2018). 1-in-X" bias: "1-in-X" format causes overestimation of health-related risks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 24 (4), 431-439
Sirota, M., Juanchich, M., Petrova, D., Garcia-Retamero, R., Walasek, L. and Bhatia, S., (2018). Health professionals prefer to communicate risk-related numerical information using "1-in-X" ratios. Medical Decision Making. 38 (3), 366-376
Liu, D. and Juanchich, M., (2018). Conceptual understanding and quantity inferences: A new framework for examining consumer understanding of food energy.. Public Health Nutrition. 21 (17), 3168-3177
Sirota, M., Dewberry, C., Juanchich, M., Kostovičová, L. and Marshall, AC., (2018). Measuring Cognitive Reflection without Maths: Development and Validation of the Verbal Cognitive Reflection Test
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2018). Ratio format shapes health decisions: The practical significance of the “1-in-X” effect.
Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2017). How Much Will the Sea Level Rise? Outcome Selection and Subjective Probability in Climate Change Predictions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 23 (4), 386-402
Navarrete, G., Correia, R., Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Huepe, D., (2017). Doctor, what does my positive test mean? From Bayesian textbook tasks to personalized risk communication. Frontiers in Psychology. 6, 1327-
Juanchich, M., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A. and Sirota, M., (2017). “I am uncertain” vs “It is uncertain”. How linguistic markers of the uncertainty source affect uncertainty communication. Judgment and Decision Making. 12 (5), 445-465
Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2016). How to improve people's interpretation of probabilities of precipitation. Journal of Risk Research. 19 (3), 388-404
Juanchich, M., Dewberry, C., Sirota, M. and Narendran, S., (2016). Cognitive Reflection Predicts Real-Life Decision Outcomes, but Not Over and Above Personality and Decision-Making Styles. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 29 (1), 52-59
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2015). A direct and comprehensive test of two postulates of politeness theory applied to uncertainty communication. Judgment and Decision Making. 10 (3), 232-240
Vallée-Tourangeau, G., Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Vallée-Tourangeau, F., (2015). Beyond getting the numbers right: what does it mean to be a "successful" Bayesian reasoner?. Frontiers in Psychology. 6 (JUN), 712-
Sirota, M., Vallée-Tourangeau, G., Vallée-Tourangeau, F. and Juanchich, M., (2015). On Bayesian problem-solving: helping Bayesians solve simple Bayesian word problems. Frontiers in Psychology. 6 (1141), 1141-
Sirota, M., Kostovičová, L. and Juanchich, M., (2014). The effect of iconicity of visual displays on statistical reasoning: evidence in favor of the null hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21 (4), 961-968
Sirota, M., Juanchich, M., Kostopoulou, O. and Hanak, R., (2014). Decisive Evidence on a Smaller-Than-You-Think Phenomenon. Medical Decision Making. 34 (4), 419-429
Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Hagmayer, Y., (2014). Ecological rationality or nested sets? Individual differences in cognitive processing predict Bayesian reasoning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21 (1), 198-204
Teigen, KH., Juanchich, M. and Filkuková, P., (2014). Verbal Probabilities: An Alternative Approach. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 67 (1), 124-146
HANÁK, R., SIROTA, M. and JUANCHICH, M., (2013). EXPERTS USE COMPENSATORY STRATEGIES MORE OFTEN THAN NOVICES IN HIRING DECISIONS. Studia Psychologica. 55 (4), 251-263
Dewberry, C., Juanchich, M. and Narendran, S., (2013). Decision-making competence in everyday life: The roles of general cognitive styles, decision-making styles and personality. Personality and Individual Differences. 55 (7), 783-788
Juanchich, M. and Sirota, M., (2013). Do people really say it is “likely” when they believe it is only “possible”? Effect of politeness on risk communication. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 66 (7), 1268-1275
Juanchich, M., Teigen, KH. and Gourdon, A., (2013). Top scores are possible, bottom scores are certain (and middle scores are not worth mentioning): A pragmatic view of verbal probabilities. Judgment and Decision Making. 8 (3), 345-364
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M., Karelitz, TM. and Villejoubert, G., (2013). Can membership-functions capture the directionality of verbal probabilities?. Thinking & Reasoning. 19 (2), 231-247
Teigen, KH., Juanchich, M. and Riege, AH., (2013). Improbable outcomes: Infrequent or extraordinary?. Cognition. 127 (1), 119-139
Dewberry, C., Juanchich, M. and Narendran, S., (2013). The latent structure of decision styles. Personality and Individual Differences. 54 (5), 566-571
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2012). Risk Communication on Shaky Ground. Science. 338 (6112), 1286-1287
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2012). To what extent do politeness expectations shape risk perception? Even numerical probabilities are under their spell!. Acta Psychologica. 141 (3), 391-399
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Butler, CL., (2012). The perceived functions of linguistic risk quantifiers and their effect on risk, negativity perception and decision making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 118 (1), 72-81
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2011). Role of numeracy and cognitive reflection in bayesian reasoning with natural frequencies. Studia Psychologica. 53 (2), 151-161
Juanchich, M., Teigen, KH. and Villejoubert, G., (2010). Is guilt ‘likely’ or ‘not certain’?. Acta Psychologica. 135 (3), 267-277
Books (1)
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Schmid, P., Holford, DL., Finn, A., Leask, J., Thomson, A., Lombardi, D., Al-Rawi, AK., Amazeen, MA., Anderson, EC., Armaos, KD., Betsch, C., Bruns, HHB., Ecker, UKH., Gavaruzzi, T., Hahn, U., Herzog, S., Juanchich, M., Kendeou, P., Newman, EJ., Pennycook, G., Rapp, DN., Sah, S., Sinatra, GM., Tapper, K. and Vraga, EK., (2021). The COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook. A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation. SciBeh
Book chapters (1)
Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Bonnefon, J-F., Verbal Uncertainty. In: The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. 354- 368
Conferences (1)
LIU, D. and Juanchich, M., (2017). Want to prime exercise? Calorie labels work better than activity ones!
Reports and Papers (4)
Sirota, M., Juanchich, M. and Holford, DL., (2023). Rationally irrational: When people do not correct their reasoning errors even if they could
Jolles, D., Juanchich, M. and Piccoli, B., (2022). Too old to be a diversity hire. Choice bundling shown to increase gender-diverse hiring decisions fails to increase age diversity
Holford, DL., Juanchich, M., Sirota, M. and Orbell, S., (2018). People Overestimate Verbal Quantities of Nutrients on Nutrition Labels
Sirota, M. and Juanchich, M., (2018). Effect of response format on cognitive reflection: Validating a two- and four-option multiple choice question version of the Cognitive Reflection Test
Grants and funding
2025
Evaluation Support for DP World Community Fund
DP World London Gateway
2023
To develop the capability to measure and enhance the impact of the Frogmore Mill visitor experience, enabling our visitors to engage with the Mill's sustainability heritage, which will encourage them to adopt long-lasting behaviour change with regards to the environment and climate change.
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
2022
Evaluating the Influence of Exposure to Anti-vax Protests on Vaccine Hesitancy across Diverse Audiences
British Academy
On the Purpose of Cognitive Reflection
Leverhulme Trust
ECC Women's Safety Evaluation: Women's Charter
Essex County Council
Expert advice on DP Worlds Energy Saving Campaign
DP World London Gateway
Mind the Vaccination Gap: Understanding and Overcoming the Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Vaccination Acceptance
British Academy
2021
Local Government Association Net Zero Innovation Programme - partnership with CBC to work with local schools to create a Climate Emergency Action Plan
Colchester Borough Council (CBC)
Local Government Association Net Zero Innovation Programme - partnership with CBC to work with local schools to create a Climate Emergency Action Plan
Colchester Borough Council (CBC)
SUPPORT TO COLCHESTER COUNCIL�S �SWITCH OFF� SIGNAGE PROJECT
Colchester Borough Council (CBC)
Evaluating the Influence of Exposure to Anti-vax Protests on Vaccine Hesitancy across Diverse Audiences
British Academy
Mind the Vaccination Gap: Understanding and Overcoming the Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Vaccination Acceptance
British Academy
Business Collaboration Fund - Promoting energy-saving behaviours at work with IoT
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Study on plastic related attitudes and behaviour
DP World London Gateway
2020
Encouraging Long Lasting Employee Energy Saving Behaviour Change through IoT
Enabling Innovation: Research to Application
Encouraging Long Lasting Employee Energy Saving Behaviour Change through IoT
Enabling Innovation: Research to Application
Encouraging Long Lasting Employee Energy Saving Behaviour Change through IoT
Enabling Innovation: Research to Application
Encouraging Long Lasting Employee Energy Saving Behaviour Change through IoT
Enabling Innovation: Research to Application
2018
Rationally irrational: When people don�t correct errors in their reasoning
Leverhulme Trust
Framing with words and numbers: Investigating the effect of verbal or numerical quantifiers on the framing effect
Experimental Psychology Society
2015
How Professional Supervision Can Best Influence the Quality of Social Work Decisions
NIHR
