I am a Reader in Cognitive Psychology, Associate Director of the Centre for Cognition and Neuroscience, and Director of the Social Conflict Lab. My research is centred around decision making in lie detection, where I have authored ALIED theory and challenged accounts of unconscious lie detection. I use a mixture of behavioural experiments, computational modeling, and eye tracking to carry out this work. I am currently working with Bob's Business Ltd on a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership project on phishing scams and a three-year ESRC project developing a computational model of human lie detection. I have also been the fortunate recipient of the APS Rising Stars award

I have been fortunate enough to have collaborated with North Yorkshire Police, Bob's Business, Bradford Safeguarding Children Board, and others.

I am currently supervising Greg Best and Karl Sedge as PhD students in the lab. Greg is developing a psychological theory of social engineering while Karl is interested in how mental models play into our understanding of how people make lie-truth judgments.

I am a keen advocate of working and communicating with the public.

My PhD (Cognitive processes in lie detection) was obtained at University College London, and my post-doc fellowship was carried out at University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

I am happy to supervise projects that fall within my area of expertise. I am particularly interested in supervising projects that develop a theoretical understanding of how people make lie-truth judgments, but I will consider supervising in other areas too. 

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