Update: read an accessible summary of the paper in the “Nature Research Behind the Paper” series here: What is deliberation, Read More
New paper: Look before you leap…
My most recent paper is now out online in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Read More
New paper: The Functions of Prospection – Variations in Health and Disease
In a new paper published in Frontiers of Psychology, Muireann Irish and I review variations in the capacity to… Read More
Awarded NHMRC C.J. Martin Fellowship to be taken up at Harvard University and The University of Sydney
I have been awarded an NHMRC C.J. Martin Early Career Fellowship, which I will be taking up at Harvard… Read More
New paper: Prospection and Natural Selection
Along with Thomas Suddendorf and Beyon Miloyan, I have a new paper now available online… Read More
Future thinking in animals: Capacities and Limits
I recently received the hard copy of the first book in which I have a published chapter! In the chapter… Read More
Conversation article: The development of reminder-setting
Parents, stop nagging kids not to forget – set visual cues instead… Read More
Conversation article: Health, temporal discounting, and mental time travel
Why telling people they could get sick in the future won’t persuade them to be healthy now… Read More
New pre-print: The History and Future of Human Prospection
The capacity to imagine the future and shape our current behaviours accordingly has rightfully been … Read More
Have we evolved to deal with long-term threats like climate change?
It can hardly be denied that humans are imperfect planners. For one, we have a widespread tendency to … Read More