Andrew M Colman
Biographic Data
| ID | 104586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew M Colman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew M |
| FAMILY NAME | Colman |
| SIGNATURE | COLMAN A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0499-3479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Team reasoning cannot be viewed as a payoff transformation
In a recent article in this journal, Duijf claims to have proved that team reasoning can be viewed as a payoff transformation. His formalization mimics team reasoning but ignores its essential agency switch. The possibility of such a payoff transformation was never in doubt, does not imply that team reasoning can be viewed as a payoff transformation, and makes no sense in a game in which payoffs represent players’ utilities. A theorem is proved h…
Behavioural game theory perspectives on cooperation
Behavioural game theory perspectives on cooperation: a reply to ‘Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: the cases of vaccination and organ donation’ by Larson and Toledo" published on 21 Aug 2023 by Bristol University Press
A five‐factor integrative taxonomy of strategic reasoning in dyadic games
Across two studies, we used verbal protocol analysis to develop a taxonomy of reasoning in dyadic matrix games. Participants were instructed to think aloud as they made decisions in the games. Their comments were recorded, audio files transcribed and the results analysed using a grounded theory approach. Five main strategic reasoning factors emerged: (1) motivation (social value orientations); (2) processing style (global‐analytic vs. local focus…
Moral and Contextual Dimensions of “Inappropriate” Antibiotic Prescribing in Secondary Care
Overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics in secondary care is a key contributor to the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR); efforts are focused on minimizing antibiotic overuse as a crucial step toward containing the global threat of AMR. The concept of overtreatment has, however, been difficult to define. Efforts to address the overuse of medicine need to be informed by an understanding of how prescribers themselves understand th…
Far but finite horizons promote cooperation in the Centipede game
Cooperation and Trust in Japanese and British Samples
Most human relationships are characterized by reciprocal patterns of give-and-take that can be studied using a decision-making task called the Centipede game. The game involves 2 players alternating in choosing between cooperation and defection, with their choices affecting payoffs to themselves and the co-player. We compared trust and cooperation of Japanese and U.K. samples in the Centipede game. To increase the game’s applicability to real-lif…
Cooperation in repeated interactions
Exploring cooperation and competition in the Centipede game through verbal protocol analysis
The Centipede game is an abstract model of reciprocal relationships in which two individuals alternate in helping each other at relatively small personal cost. Whereas mutual cooperation can benefit both individuals in the long run, a paradoxical but logically compelling backward induction argument suggests that cooperation is irrational. Empirical studies have reported reliable deviations from the non‐cooperative backward induction solution, but…
Do as I Say, Don’t Do as I Do
Many people judge that it is permissible to harm one person in order to save many in some circumstances but not in others: it matters how the harm comes about. Researchers have used trolley problems to investigate this phenomenon, eliciting moral judgments or behavioral predictions about hypothetical scenarios where five people can be saved at the cost of harming one other person. We operationalized trolley problems in the laboratory, with econom…
Men’s and carers’ experiences of care for prostate cancer
Objective To review studies of patients’ and carers’ experience of prostate cancer care. Design Narrative literature review. Methods Search strategies were developed for the following databases: MEDLINE (1966–2006), EMBASE (1980–2006), CINAHL (1982–2006) and PsycINFO (1987–2006). A search of SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe) was also undertaken. Experience was defined as patients’ and carers’ reports of how care was orga…
Ambiguity aversion in the long run
Collective Preferences in Strategic Decisions
In the theories of team reasoning of Sugden and Bacharach, players are assumed to be motivated in some circumstances to maximize collective rather than individual utilities. An experiment was performed to assess whether preferences underlying such collective payoff maximization occur. An opportunistic sample of 50 undergraduate and graduate students, 7 men and 43 women ages 19 to 42 years (M= 23.0, SD=5.4), expressed preferences among the outcome…
Thomas C. Schelling’s psychological decision theory
Optimal number of response categories in rating scales
Stackelberg reasoning in mixed-motive games
Comparing Rating Scales of Different Lengths
Using a self-administered questionnaire, 227 respondents rated service elements associated with a restaurant, retail store, or public transport company on several 5-point and 7-point rating scales. Least-squares regression showed that linear equations for estimating 7-point from 5-point and 5-point from 7-point ratings explained over 85% of the variance and fitted the data almost as well as higher-order polynomials and power functions. In a cross…
Obituary Notice
Modality of Communication and Recall of Health-related Information
A health warning was presented to 89 female and 19 male students aged 17-36 years via three modalities or channels of communication: a 'talking head' (video), an audiotape recording (audio) or a printed transcript (print). The verbal content of the message was identical in all three conditions. Participants' free recall, cued recall (recognition) and global recall of the message were then measured. On two separate dependent measures and a combine…
Overconfidence, base rates and outcome positivity/negativity of predicted events
Overconfidence is said to occur when a person's confidence in a series of predictions exceeds the level of accuracy achieved. In this experiment, questionnaire items requiring predictions of personal life-events were selected according to their objective base rates of occurrence and their outcome positivity/negativity for participants in a pilot study. The 98 participants in the main experiment predicted whether they would experience each event w…
Effects of Entertainment and Enjoyment of Television Programs on Perception and Memory of Advertisements
This study focuses on the hypothesis that entertainment and enjoyment properties of television programs have effects on recall, recognition, and perception of accompanying advertisements similar to the effects of program involvement reported by Norris and Colman (1993). Ninety-nine subjects each watched one of three television programs accompanied by six unfamiliar advertisements and then responded to questionnaires designed to measure perception…
Context Effects on Memory for Television Advertisements
This study focuses on the hypothesis that television viewers' depth of psychological involvement in a program is inversely related to their recall and recognition of accompanying advertisements. Ninety subjects watched an involving or a relatively uninvolving television program accompanied by six completely unfamiliar advertisements. They then responded to a series of questionnaires designed to measure their perceptions of the programs and the ad…
Research performance of United Kingdom university psychology departments
This scientometric investigation of research performance focuses on publications in seven leading European psychology journals. For the period 1980–89 inclusive, articles by members of university departments of psychology in the United Kingdom were counted, and the average number of articles per staff member was calculated for each department. The resulting research performance figures correlated positively and significantly with recent performan…
Crowd psychology in South African murder trials
'This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.' http://www.apa.org/journals/amp
Crowd psychology in South African murder trials
South African courts have recently accepted social psychological phenomena as extenuating factors in murder trials.In one important case, eight railway workers were convicted of murdering four strike-breakers during an industrial dispute; the court accepted conformity, obedience, group polarization, deindividuation, bystander apathy, and other well-established psychological phenomena as extenuating factors for four of the eight defendants but sen…
Familiarity and Liking
Previous investigations have provided evidence for positive (“mere exposure”), negative, and inverted-U functional relationships between familiarity and liking for various categories of stimuli. The preference-feedback hypothesis offers an explanation for these seemingly contradictory findings; two experiments designed to test the hypothesis directly are reported in this paper. In both experiments, as predicted by the hypothesis, mere-exposure ef…
Conservatism, Dogmatism, and Authoritarianism in British Police Officers
The Wilson-Patterson Attitude Inventory, Eysenck's Social and Political Attitude Inventory, Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale, and the Lee-Warr Balanced F Scale were administered to 48 recruit police constables at the beginning and end of their basic training, 36 probationer constables with an average of 20 months' police experience, and 30 control subjects matched with the police groups in socioeconomic status. All subjects also gave open-ended response…
The Attractiveness of Names
After a brief account of the importance, and neglect, of the psychological study of names, the role of familiarity in liking for names is investigated. Some empirical research on first names and surnames is set in the context of two opposing theories in experimental aesthetics: the “mere exposure” and “inverted-U” hypotheses. A preference-feedback hypothesis that enables us to resolve some apparently contradictory results from the experiments, an…
Do as I Say, Don’t Do as I Do
Many people judge that it is permissible to harm one person in order to save many in some circumstances but not in others: it matters how the harm comes about. Researchers have used trolley problems to investigate this phenomenon, eliciting moral judgments or behavioral predictions about hypothetical scenarios where five people can be saved at the cost of harming one other person. We operationalized trolley problems in the laboratory, with econom…
Moral and Contextual Dimensions of “Inappropriate” Antibiotic Prescribing in Secondary Care
Overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics in secondary care is a key contributor to the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR); efforts are focused on minimizing antibiotic overuse as a crucial step toward containing the global threat of AMR. The concept of overtreatment has, however, been difficult to define. Efforts to address the overuse of medicine need to be informed by an understanding of how prescribers themselves understand th…
Thomas C. Schelling’s psychological decision theory
The effect of familiarity on preferences for surnames
A sample of 40 male and 40 female subjects rated either their familiarity with or their liking for 60 one-syllable and two-syllable surnames selected randomly from a local telephone directory. Linear and curvilinear regression analyses strongly corroborated the hypothesis of an inverted-U familiarity-favourability relationship. These results, together with those of earlier investigations using other classes of stimuli, are discussed in the light …
Exploring cooperation and competition in the Centipede game through verbal protocol analysis
The Centipede game is an abstract model of reciprocal relationships in which two individuals alternate in helping each other at relatively small personal cost. Whereas mutual cooperation can benefit both individuals in the long run, a paradoxical but logically compelling backward induction argument suggests that cooperation is irrational. Empirical studies have reported reliable deviations from the non‐cooperative backward induction solution, but…
Modality of Communication and Recall of Health-related Information
A health warning was presented to 89 female and 19 male students aged 17-36 years via three modalities or channels of communication: a 'talking head' (video), an audiotape recording (audio) or a printed transcript (print). The verbal content of the message was identical in all three conditions. Participants' free recall, cued recall (recognition) and global recall of the message were then measured. On two separate dependent measures and a combine…
Overconfidence, base rates and outcome positivity/negativity of predicted events
Overconfidence is said to occur when a person's confidence in a series of predictions exceeds the level of accuracy achieved. In this experiment, questionnaire items requiring predictions of personal life-events were selected according to their objective base rates of occurrence and their outcome positivity/negativity for participants in a pilot study. The 98 participants in the main experiment predicted whether they would experience each event w…
Psychological Factors Affecting Preferences for First Names
Anecdotal and anthropological evidence suggests that personal names are of considerable psychological significance, but they have not received much attention from psychologists. The relationship between the familiarity of first names and the degree to which they lare liked is of particular interest from the point of view of research in related areas of experimental aesthetics. Evidence from investigations carried out in England and Australia sugg…
Behavioural game theory perspectives on cooperation
Behavioural game theory perspectives on cooperation: a reply to ‘Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: the cases of vaccination and organ donation’ by Larson and Toledo" published on 21 Aug 2023 by Bristol University Press
Ambiguity aversion in the long run
Scientific' Racism and the Evidence on Race and Intelligence
Voting Paradoxes
Psychological Factors Affecting Preferences for First Names
Anecdotal and anthropological evidence suggests that personal names are of considerable psychological significance, but they have not received much attention from psychologists. The relationship between the familiarity of first names and the degree to which they lare liked is of particular interest from the point of view of research in related areas of experimental aesthetics. Evidence from investigations carried out in England and Australia sugg…
Liking words as a function of the experienced frequency of their occurrence
A hypothetical inverted‐U curve is postulated linking liking of stimuli to familiarity with them. An experiment using a special procedure was carried out in which the relationship was investigated for words, ranging from very unfamiliar to very familiar, between favourability and familiarity. The results conformed to the theoretical curve. This indicated that the positive correlation between the variables reported by several researchers (e.g. Zaj…
The effect of familiarity on preferences for surnames
A sample of 40 male and 40 female subjects rated either their familiarity with or their liking for 60 one-syllable and two-syllable surnames selected randomly from a local telephone directory. Linear and curvilinear regression analyses strongly corroborated the hypothesis of an inverted-U familiarity-favourability relationship. These results, together with those of earlier investigations using other classes of stimuli, are discussed in the light …
Conservatism, Dogmatism, and Authoritarianism in British Police Officers
The Wilson-Patterson Attitude Inventory, Eysenck's Social and Political Attitude Inventory, Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale, and the Lee-Warr Balanced F Scale were administered to 48 recruit police constables at the beginning and end of their basic training, 36 probationer constables with an average of 20 months' police experience, and 30 control subjects matched with the police groups in socioeconomic status. All subjects also gave open-ended response…
The Attractiveness of Names
After a brief account of the importance, and neglect, of the psychological study of names, the role of familiarity in liking for names is investigated. Some empirical research on first names and surnames is set in the context of two opposing theories in experimental aesthetics: the “mere exposure” and “inverted-U” hypotheses. A preference-feedback hypothesis that enables us to resolve some apparently contradictory results from the experiments, an…
Attitudes of British Police Officers
Waddington's comment on 'Conservatism, Dogmatism, and Authoritarianism in British Police Officers' by Colman and Gorman is motivated, in part at least, by overtly political considerations. None of his specific criticisms bears close scrutiny. One is based on a selective misquotation which conveys the opposite meaning to that of the original; a second focusses on a supposed 'lack of illiberalism' among police officers which is clearly contradicted…
Familiarity and Liking
Previous investigations have provided evidence for positive (“mere exposure”), negative, and inverted-U functional relationships between familiarity and liking for various categories of stimuli. The preference-feedback hypothesis offers an explanation for these seemingly contradictory findings; two experiments designed to test the hypothesis directly are reported in this paper. In both experiments, as predicted by the hypothesis, mere-exposure ef…
Crowd psychology in South African murder trials
'This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.' http://www.apa.org/journals/amp
Crowd psychology in South African murder trials
South African courts have recently accepted social psychological phenomena as extenuating factors in murder trials.In one important case, eight railway workers were convicted of murdering four strike-breakers during an industrial dispute; the court accepted conformity, obedience, group polarization, deindividuation, bystander apathy, and other well-established psychological phenomena as extenuating factors for four of the eight defendants but sen…
Research performance of United Kingdom university psychology departments
This scientometric investigation of research performance focuses on publications in seven leading European psychology journals. For the period 1980–89 inclusive, articles by members of university departments of psychology in the United Kingdom were counted, and the average number of articles per staff member was calculated for each department. The resulting research performance figures correlated positively and significantly with recent performan…
Context Effects on Memory for Television Advertisements
This study focuses on the hypothesis that television viewers' depth of psychological involvement in a program is inversely related to their recall and recognition of accompanying advertisements. Ninety subjects watched an involving or a relatively uninvolving television program accompanied by six completely unfamiliar advertisements. They then responded to a series of questionnaires designed to measure their perceptions of the programs and the ad…
Effects of Entertainment and Enjoyment of Television Programs on Perception and Memory of Advertisements
This study focuses on the hypothesis that entertainment and enjoyment properties of television programs have effects on recall, recognition, and perception of accompanying advertisements similar to the effects of program involvement reported by Norris and Colman (1993). Ninety-nine subjects each watched one of three television programs accompanied by six unfamiliar advertisements and then responded to questionnaires designed to measure perception…
Overconfidence, base rates and outcome positivity/negativity of predicted events
Overconfidence is said to occur when a person's confidence in a series of predictions exceeds the level of accuracy achieved. In this experiment, questionnaire items requiring predictions of personal life-events were selected according to their objective base rates of occurrence and their outcome positivity/negativity for participants in a pilot study. The 98 participants in the main experiment predicted whether they would experience each event w…
Comparing Rating Scales of Different Lengths
Using a self-administered questionnaire, 227 respondents rated service elements associated with a restaurant, retail store, or public transport company on several 5-point and 7-point rating scales. Least-squares regression showed that linear equations for estimating 7-point from 5-point and 5-point from 7-point ratings explained over 85% of the variance and fitted the data almost as well as higher-order polynomials and power functions. In a cross…
Obituary Notice
Modality of Communication and Recall of Health-related Information
A health warning was presented to 89 female and 19 male students aged 17-36 years via three modalities or channels of communication: a 'talking head' (video), an audiotape recording (audio) or a printed transcript (print). The verbal content of the message was identical in all three conditions. Participants' free recall, cued recall (recognition) and global recall of the message were then measured. On two separate dependent measures and a combine…
Stackelberg reasoning in mixed-motive games
Optimal number of response categories in rating scales
Thomas C. Schelling’s psychological decision theory
Collective Preferences in Strategic Decisions
In the theories of team reasoning of Sugden and Bacharach, players are assumed to be motivated in some circumstances to maximize collective rather than individual utilities. An experiment was performed to assess whether preferences underlying such collective payoff maximization occur. An opportunistic sample of 50 undergraduate and graduate students, 7 men and 43 women ages 19 to 42 years (M= 23.0, SD=5.4), expressed preferences among the outcome…
Men’s and carers’ experiences of care for prostate cancer
Objective To review studies of patients’ and carers’ experience of prostate cancer care. Design Narrative literature review. Methods Search strategies were developed for the following databases: MEDLINE (1966–2006), EMBASE (1980–2006), CINAHL (1982–2006) and PsycINFO (1987–2006). A search of SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe) was also undertaken. Experience was defined as patients’ and carers’ reports of how care was orga…
Ambiguity aversion in the long run
Do as I Say, Don’t Do as I Do
Many people judge that it is permissible to harm one person in order to save many in some circumstances but not in others: it matters how the harm comes about. Researchers have used trolley problems to investigate this phenomenon, eliciting moral judgments or behavioral predictions about hypothetical scenarios where five people can be saved at the cost of harming one other person. We operationalized trolley problems in the laboratory, with econom…
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