Gordon D A Brown

Datos Biográficos

ID321823
NOMBREGordon D A Brown
NOMBRESGordon D A
APELLIDOBrown
FIRMABROWN G D A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0000-0002-2257-1459
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS40
TOTAL DE CITAS76
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1980
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • Multiple Reputations

    Open AccessAlexandra V T de La Trobe, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2026

    Reputation is multidimensional, with some traits being more relevant than others in particular contexts. Can people selectively respond to reputational cues relevant to the task at hand? Across three studies, we examined how people weigh cues about helpfulness and competence when forming expectations about strangers’ behavior. Using adapted investment games, we varied whether a stranger’s helpfulness or competence predicted participants’ future p…

  • Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice

    Open AccessLukasz Walasek, Gordon D A BrownARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2024

    Models of decision-making typically assume the existence of some common currency of value, such as utility, happiness, or inclusive fitness. This common currency is taken to allow comparison of options and to underpin everyday choice. Here we suggest instead that there is no universal value scale, that incommensurable values pervade everyday choice, and hence that most existing models of decision-making in both economics and psychology are fundam…

  • The role of episodic memory sampling in evaluation

    Open AccessAlice Mason, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2024

    Many models of choice assume that people retrieve memories of past experiences and use them to guide evaluation and choice. In this paper, we examine whether samples of recalled past experiences do indeed underpin our evaluations of options. We showed participants sequences of numerical values and asked them to recall as many of those values as possible and also to state how much they would be willing to pay for another draw from the sequence. Us…

  • Political Attitudes and Disease Threat

    Open AccessGordon D A Brown, Lukasz Walasek et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2024

    What environmental factors are associated with individual differences in political ideology, and do such associations change over time? We examine whether reductions in pathogen prevalence in U.S. states over the past 60 years are associated with reduced associations between parasite stress and conservatism. We report a positive association between infection levels and conservative ideology in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. However…

  • The Evolution of Polarization in Online Conversation

    Open AccessWeize Zhao, Lukasz Walasek et al.ARTICLEHuman Behavior and Emerging…2023

    Political polarization on social media has been extensively studied. However, most research has examined polarization about topics that have preexisting associations with ideology, while few studies have tracked the onset of polarization about novel topics or the evolution of polarization over a prolonged period. The occurrence of COVID-19 provides a unique opportunity to study whether social media discourse about a novel event becomes increasing…

  • Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making

    Open AccessGordon D A Brown, Lukasz Walasek et al.BOOKSampling in Judgment and Decision…2023

    Sampling approaches to judgment and decision making are distinct from traditional accounts in psychology and neuroscience. While these traditional accounts focus on limitations of the human mind as a major source of bounded rationality, the sampling approach originates in a broader cognitive-ecological perspective. It starts from the fundamental assumption that in order to understand intra-psychic cognitive processes one first has to understand t…

  • Of tinfoil hats and thinking caps

    Open AccessMichael Hattersley, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLECognition2022

  • Inequality and Social Rank

    Open AccessEdika G Quispe-Torreblanca, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2021

    How do income and income inequality combine to influence subjective well-being? We examined the relation between income and life satisfaction in different societies, and found large effects of income inequality within a society on the relationship between individuals’ incomes and their life satisfaction. The income–satisfaction gradient is steeper in countries with more equal income distributions, such that the positive effect of a 10% increase i…

  • Consumption Changes, Not Income Changes, Predict Changes in Subjective Well-Being

    Open AccessGordon D A Brown, John GathergoodARTICLESocial Psychological and…2020

    Does happiness depend on what one earns or what one spends? Income is typically found to have small beneficial effects on well-being. However, economic theory suggests that well-being is conferred not by income but by consumption (i.e., spending on goods and services), and a person’s level of consumption may differ greatly from their level of income due to saving behavior and taxation. Moreover, research within consumer psychology has established…

  • Infectious Disease Prevalence, Not Race Exposure, Predicts Both Implicit and Explicit Racial Prejudice Across the United States

    Open AccessBrian A O''Shea, Brian A O’Shea et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2020

    What factors increase racial prejudice? Across the United States, increased exposure to Black Americans has been hypothesized to increase White Americans’ prejudicial attitudes toward Black Americans. Here we test an alternative explanation: People living in regions with higher infectious disease rates have a greater tendency to avoid out-groups because such avoidance reduces their perceived likelihood of contracting illnesses. Consistent with th…

  • Comparing indices of relative deprivation using behavioural evidence

    Open AccessHilda Osafo Hounkpatin, Hilda Hounkpatin et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020

  • Benchmarks provide common ground for model development

    Klaus Oberauer, Lewandowsky et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2018

    We respond to the comments of Logie and Vandierendonck to our article proposing benchmark findings for evaluating theories and models of short-term and working memory. The response focuses on the two main points of criticism: (a) Logie and Vandierendonck argue that the scope of the set of benchmarks is too narrow. We explain why findings on how working memory is used in complex cognition, findings on executive functions, and findings from neurops…

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory

    Klaus Oberauer, Lewandowsky et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2018Citada por: 3

    Any mature field of research in psychology-such as short-term/working memory-is characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to expect a theory to explain them all; theorists must satisfice with explaining a subset of findings. The aim of the present article is to make the choice of that subset less arbitrary and idiosyncratic than is current practice. We propose criteria for identifying benchmark findings that eve…

  • A rank based social norms model of how people judge their levels of drunkenness whilst intoxicated

    Open AccessSimon C Moore, Simon Moore et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Whilst intoxicated and in drinking environments, people base judgements regarding their drinking on how their level of intoxication ranks relative to that of others of the same gender around them, not on their actual levels of intoxication. Thus, when in the company of others who are intoxicated, drinkers were found to be more likely to underestimate their own level of drinking, drunkenness and associated risks. The implications of these results,…

  • Income Inequality, Income, and Internet Searches for Status Goods

    Open AccessLukasz Walasek, Gordon D A BrownARTICLESocial Indicators Research2016Citada por: 17Referencias: 13

    Is there a positive association between a nation's income inequality and concerns with status competition within that nation? Here we use Google Correlate and Google Trends to examine frequency of internet search terms and find that people in countries in which income inequality is high search relatively more frequently for positional brand names such as Prada, Louis Vuitton, or Chanel. This tendency is stronger among well-developed countries. We…

  • Temporal Distinctiveness Models of Memory

    Open AccessGordon D A BrownCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • When is received social support related to perceived support and well-being? When it is needed

    Open AccessKaren L Melrose, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Individual…2015

  • Income Inequality and Status Seeking

    Open AccessLukasz Walasek, Gordon D A BrownARTICLEPsychological Science2015

    It is well established that income inequality is associated with lower societal well-being, but the psychosocial causes of this relationship are poorly understood. A social-rank hypothesis predicts that members of unequal societies are likely to devote more of their resources to status-seeking behaviors such as acquiring positional goods. We used Google Correlate to find search terms that correlated with our measure of income inequality, and we c…

  • Students' concern about indebtedness

    Silvio Aldrovandi, Alex M Wood et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2015

    This paper describes a new model of students’ concern about indebtedness within a rank-based social norms framework. Study 1 found that students hold highly variable beliefs about how much other students will owe at the end of their degree. Students’ concern about their own anticipated debt—and their intention of taking on a part-time job during term time—was best predicted not by the size of the anticipated debt, but by how they, often incorrect…

  • Why does Income Relate to Depressive Symptoms? Testing the Income Rank Hypothesis Longitudinally

    Open AccessHilda Osafo Hounkpatin, Hilda Hounkpatin et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2015Citada por: 10Referencias: 48

  • Do Student Evaluations of University Reflect Inaccurate Beliefs or Actual Experience? A Relative Rank Model

    Open AccessGordon D A Brown, Alex M Wood et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2014Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

    It was shown that student satisfaction ratings are influenced by context in ways that have important theoretical and practical implications. Using questions from the UK's National Student Survey, the study examined whether and how students' expressed satisfaction with issues such as feedback promptness and instructor enthusiasm depends on the context of comparison (such as possibly inaccurate beliefs about the feedback promptness or enthusiasm ex…

  • Money, Well-Being, and Loss Aversion

    Open AccessChristopher J Boyce, Alex M Wood et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2013

    Higher income is associated with greater well-being, but do income gains and losses affect well-being differently? Loss aversion, whereby losses loom larger than gains, is typically examined in relation to decisions about anticipated outcomes. Here, using subjective-well-being data from Germany (N = 28,723) and the United Kingdom (N = 20,570), we found that losses in income have a larger effect on well-being than equivalent income gains and that …

  • How Are Personality Judgments Made? A Cognitive Model of Reference Group Effects, Personality Scale Responses, and Behavioral Reactions

    Open AccessAlex M Wood, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2012

    This article suggests that personality judgments are wholly relative, being the outcome of a comparison of a given individual to a reference group of others. The underlying comparison processes are the same as those used to judge psychophysical stimuli (as outlined by range frequency theory and decision by sampling accounts). Five experimental studies show that the same person's personality is rated differently depending on how his or her behavio…

  • Am I Abnormal? Relative Rank and Social Norm Effects in Judgments of Anxiety and Depression Symptom Severity

    Open AccessKaren L Melrose, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2012Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    Overdetection and underdetection of depression and anxiety in primary care are common and may partly reflect individuals' misperceptions of the severity of symptoms they experience. Here, we explore how people's judgments about the severity of their own symptoms are influenced by their beliefs about the distribution of symptoms experienced by the rest of the population. We apply the rank‐based decision by sampling cognitive model of judgment to s…

  • How are Personality Judgments Made? A Cognitive Model of Reference Group Effects, Personality Scale Responses, and Behavioral Reactions

    Open AccessAlex M Wood, Gordon D A Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2011