Publications

Kusev, P.,  Juliusson, A. & van Schaik, P (in press; editorial article for a special issue). Human preferences and risky choices.  Frontiers in Cognition.

 Kusev, P. & van Schaik, P (in press). Preferences under risk: Content-dependent behaviour and psychological processing.  Frontiers in Cognition.

Kusev, P., Ayton, P., van Schaik, P. Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., Stewart, N. & Chater, N. (in press). Judgments relative to patterns: How temporal sequence patterns affect judgments and memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Vlaev, I., Kusev, P., Stewart, N., Aldrovandi, S., & Chater, N. (2010). Domain effects and financial risk attitudes. Risk Analysis, 30, 1374-1386.

Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., Ayton, P., Dent, J. & Chater, N. (2009). Exaggerated risk: Prospect theory and probability weighting in risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1487-1505.

Publications Under Review and Work in Progress

Kusev, P., van Schaik, P. & Aldrovandi, S. (Under review). Preferences induced by accessibility: Evidence from priming.

Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., Juliusson, A., Ayton, P. & Chater, N.  (Under review). Adaptive anchoring model: How holistic and analytical processing induce judgments and predictions.

Kusev, P., Johansson, P., van Schaik, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., Ayton, P., Hall, L. & Chater, N. (Under review). Preference reversals: Memory and contextual biases with decision prospects.

Kusev, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., van Schaik, P. & Chater, N. (Under review). Judgments relative to patterns model: The effect of first run on judgments.

Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P., Vlaev, I. & Chater, N. (Under review). Context mediates priming effects on financial risk taking.

Kusev, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., van Schaik. P. & Johansson, P. (Manuscript draft). Relative theory of choice: Preference change for risky choices.

Kusev, P., van Schaik, P. & Ayton, P. (Manuscript draft). The absence of loss aversion: Context relativity with choice under risk.

Kusev, P., Heussen, D., Aldrovandi, S. & van Schaik, P. (Manuscript draft). Contrast, similarity and assimilation: Why some categories are more pronounced than others?

Aldrovandi, S., Poirier, M., Kusev, P. & Ayton. (Manuscript draft). When the distinctive is even more distinct: The effects of accessibility on judgment.

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings

Aldrovandi, S., Poirier, M., Kusev, P. & Ayton, P. (2011). Now I like it, now I don't: Delay effects and retrospective judgment. Proceedings of the 32st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. XX-XX). Boston: Cognitive Science Society.

Kusev, P., Ayton, P. & van Schaik, P. (2009). Choice and human preferences: How accessibility, context and simplicity affect decision prospects. Proceedings of the Experimental Psychology Society, Published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 12, 2471-2482.

Heussen, D., Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P. & Hampton, J. A. (2009). Explanations of comparative facts: A shift in focus. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, L. Schomaker, & J. Nerbonne (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1716-1721). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Kusev, P. & van Schaik, P. (2007). Deciding about risky prospects: A psychological descriptive approach. In J. Elsworth (Ed.) Psychology of decision making in education, behavior and high risk situations (pp. 185-206). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science. ISBN: 1-60021-933-0.

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers (talks)

Kusev, P. (2011). Judging from experience: Experienced sequences are predicted better than described sequences. Paper to be presented at the 52st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, USA. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society.

Kusev, P. (2011). Relative theory of risky choices. Paper presented at the 23rd Bi-annual Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making. Kingston University London. Abstracts of the SPUDM, EADM bulletin.

Kusev, P., Johansson, P., van Schaik, P., Ayton, P. & Chater, N. (2010). Utility Reversals. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, USA. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society.

Kusev, P., van Schaik. P. & Johansson. P. (2010). Relative Theory of Choice. Paper presented at the Society for Risk Analysis, King's College London, 21-23 June.

Kusev, P., van Schaik. P., Ayton, P., Aldrovandi, S., Shigemasu, K.,  & Yamagishi, K. (2010). Memory-biased preferences. Paper to be presented at the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory (FUR) conference, Newcastle University, 15-18 June, 2010.

Kusev, P., Johansson. P. & van Schaik. P. (2010). Relative Theory of Choice: Preference Change for Risky Choices. Paper presented at the Economic Psychology conference, University of Bolton, 26 June, 2010.

Kusev, P., Ayton, P., van Schaik, P. & Stewart, N. (2009). Judgments relative to patterns. Paper presented at the 22nd Bi-annual Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making. Italy. Rovereto. 23-27, 2009. Abstracts of the SPUDM, EADM bulletin.

Kusev, P., Ayton, P. & van Schaik, P. (2008). Memory-biased preferences: How accessibility affects judgments and decision-making prospects. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, Illinois, USA. November 15-17, 2008. Abstracts of the SJDM, (pp. 4).

Kusev, P., Ayton, P., van Schaik, P. & Chater, N. (2008). Memory-Biased Preferences with Judgments and Decision-Making Prospects. Paper presented at 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA. November 13-16. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, (xviii).

van Schaik, P., Kusev, P., Ayton, P. & Chater, N. (2008). Happy to avoid risk: The absence of loss aversion - context dependency of choice under risk. Paper presented at the Health, Wellbeing and Happiness conference, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK. 30th June-1st July, 2008 (pp. 25).

Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., Ayton, P. & Chater, N. (2007). Absolute frequency identification: How a sequence of events can affect people's judgments. Paper presented at 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, USA. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 38, 244-250.

Kusev, P., Ayton, P., van Schaik, P. & Chater, N. (2007). The first-run effect: How temporal sequence patterns affect judgments and memory. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Long Beach, CA, USA. November 17-19, 2007. Abstracts of the SJDM, (pp. 3).

Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., Ayton, P. & Chater, N. (2007). Exaggerated risk. Paper presented at the 21st Bi-annual Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making. Warsaw. August 19-23, 2007. Abstracts of the SPUDM, EADM bulletin (pp. 3).

Kusev, P., Ayton, P., van Schaik, P. & Chater, N. (2006). Taking precautions is not the same as choosing gambles: Prospect theory and use of probability in risky choices. Paper presented by Ayton at the 27th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas, USA. November 17-20, 2006. Abstracts of the SJDM, (pp. 24).

Posters

Kusev, P., Johansson. P. van Schaik. P. & Heussen, D. (2009). Preference reversal: Memory and contextual biases with choice. Poster presented at 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, USA. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 14, pp 99.

Heussen, D., Belardi, S. & Kusev, P. (2008). Loss aversion in contrastive explanations. Poster presented at 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA. November 13-16.

Invited Talks

Kusev, P. (2011). Utility reversals: Memory and contextual biases with decision prospects. Swansea University, UK.

Kusev, P. (2010). Exaggerated risk: The relative theory of choice. Lloyd's Science of Risk.

Kusev, P. (2009). Contemporary issues in cognitive psychology, St Mary's University College London, Department of Psychology.

Ayton, P., Kusev, P. & van Schaik, P. (2007). Risky decisions: Gambling, insurance and prospect theory. Economic of Behaviour and Decision Making, Westminster Business School, London.

Kusev, P., van Schaik, P. & Ayton, P. (2007). Judgments relative to patterns. UCLA, The Anderson School of Management, USA.

Invited Talks at Conferences/Keynote Addresses

Kusev, P., Ayton, P., van Schaik, P. & Chater, N.  (2008). Memory-biased preferences: The influence of accessibility on risky decision-making and judgments. The 13th International Seminar on Experiments and Surveys in Economics and Related Social Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo.

Kusev, P. (2008). Memory and human preferences: The influence of accessibility on decision prospect. The 3rd Seminar of Integration of Cognition, Behaviour and Measurement, Nagano, University of Tokyo, Japan (Keynote lecture).