Project Group Members:
Dr Natalie Gold |
Senior Research Fellow |
Natalie's research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and psychology. Before coming to King's on a 5-year ERC grant, she was a Lecturer (US: Assistant Professor) in Mind & Decision at the University of Edinburgh.
Natalie has conducted theoretical and empirical research on behavioural decision-making and moral psychology. She has worked on topics including: framing, moral-judgment and decision-making, co-operation and co-ordination, trust, and self-control. Click here for a full list of publications. |
Selected publications:
- Gold, N., Pulford, B. D. & Colman, A. M. (2014). Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems. Judgment And Decision Making. 9(1), 65-76.
- Gold, N. (2013). Team Reasoning, Framing and Self-Control: An Aristotelian Account. In N. Levy (ed.) Addiction and Self-Control: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 48-66.
- Gold, N., Pulford, B. D. & Colman, A. M. (2013). Your Money or Your Life: Comparing judgments in trolley problems involving economic and emotional harms, injury, and death. Economics and Philosophy. 29(02), 213-233.
- Gold, N. & Sugden, R.(2007). Collective intentions and team agency. Journal of Philosophy. (104)3, 109-137.
- Gold, N. & List, C. (2004). Framing as path dependence. Economics and Philosophy. 20(2), 253-77.
Dr James Thom |
Research Associate |
James is a psychologist by training. He joined the group in 2014, after completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge.
James is interested in the mechanisms connecting an individual to his/her future self, and the role these mechanisms play in decision-making. He is also interested in the effects of engaging in episodic future-thinking on choice. His work is primarily empirical, and consists of studies in the lab, as well as online questionnaires. Please see the contact page if you would like to ask James about his research. |
Selected publications:
- Thom, J.M. & Clayton, N. S. (in press). Translational research into intertemporal choice: The Western scrub-jay as an animal model for future-thinking. Behavioural processes.
- Thom, J.M. & Clayton, N. S. (2014). Continuity in Hippocampal Function as a Constraint on the Convergent Evolution of Episodic-Like Cognition. Cosmology, 18, 461-465.
- Thom, J. M. & Clayton, N. S. (2014). No evidence of temporal preferences in caching by Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica). Behavioural Processes, 103, 173-179.
- Thom, J. M. & Clayton, N. S. (2013). Re-caching by Western Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma californica) Cannot Be Attributed to Stress. PloS One, 8(1).
Jurgis Karpus |
PhD Student |
Jurgis is a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, King's College London. He completed his BSc and MSc studies in Economics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics and his primary research interests lie in the fields of decision theory, game theory and rational choice. Jurgis' current work focuses on the rationality of time discounting and different ways of modeling decision-makers' choices in the context of intertemporal choice.
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