Professor Daniel Read
Professor of Behavioural Science
Research Interests
Judgment and decision making including intertemporal choice, choice under uncertainty and risk, heuristics and biases. Philosophical psychology.
Teaching in 2016-2017
Executive MBA
- IB9AP0: Behavioural Sciences for the Manager
Full Time MBA
- IB9BH0: Sustainability and Business Ethics
Research Students
- IB9FE0: Behavioural Science of Decision Making
Undergraduate
- IB3J50: Emotions in Business
- IB3H90: Strategic Games
Behavioural Science Group, Global Energy Research Network
Email: Daniel.Read@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 23816 / Room: 3.123
Biography
Daniel Read is professor of behavioural economics at Warwick Business School He has held faculty positions at Leeds University Business School, London School of Economics (Reader) and Durham Business School (Professor), and visiting positions at INSEAD, Yale School of Management, and Rotterdam Business School. Professor Read has consulted for the UK government and the Financial Services Authority on many aspects of behavioural economics, especially as it relates to consumer welfare and environmental marketing. He has published widely in leading journals including Psychological Review, Management Science, Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Risk Analysis, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. He is a former associate editor of Management Science, and former editor of Journal of Economic Psychology.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Kutzner, F. L., Read, D., Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A. and Stewart, N. (2016) "Choosing the devil you don’t know : evidence for limited sensitivity to sample-size based uncertainty when it offers an advantage", Management Science
- Read, D., Olivola, C. Y. and Hardisty, D. (2016) "The value of nothing : asymmetric attention to opportunity costs drives intertemporal decision making", Management Science
- German, H., Fortin, M. and Read, D. (2016) "Justice judgments : individual self-insight and between- and within-person consistency", Academy of Management Discoveries, 2, 1, 33-50
- Cubitt, R., McDonald, R. and Read, D. (2016) "Time matters less when outcomes differ: uni-modal versus cross-modal comparisons in intertemporal choice ", Management Science
- Scholten, M., Read, D. and Sanborn, A. N. (2016) "Cumulative weighing of time in intertemporal tradeoffs ", Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 9, 1177-1205
- Antoniou, C., Harrison, G. W., Lau, M. and Read, D. (2015) "Information characteristics and errors in expectations : experimental evidence", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
- Antoniou, C., Harrison, G. W., Lau, M. I. and Read, D. (2015) "Subjective Bayesian beliefs", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 50, 1, 35-54
- Scholten, M., Read, D. and Sanborn, A. N. (2014) "Weighing outcomes by time or against time? Evaluation rules in intertemporal choice", Cognitive Science
- Scholten, M. and Read, D. (2014) "Prospect theory and the “forgotten” fourfold pattern of risk preferences", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
- Antoniou, C., Galariotis, E. and Read, D. (2014) "Ambiguity aversion, company size and the pricing of earnings forecasts", European Financial Management, 20, 3, 633-651
- Scholten, M. and Read, D. (2013) "Time and outcome framing in intertemporal tradeoffs", Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Volume 39, Number 4, 1192-1212
- Read, D., Frederick, S. and Scholten, M. (2013) "DRIFT : an analysis of outcome framing in intertemporal choice", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Volume 39, Number 2, 573-588
- Harrison, G. W., Lau, M. I. and Read, D. (2012) "Introduction to FUR special issue", Theory and Decision, Vol.73, No.1, 1-2
- Read, D., Frederick, S. and Airoldi, M. (2012) "Four days later in Cincinnati : longitudinal tests of hyperbolic discounting", Acta psychologica, Vol.140, No.2, 177-185
- Read, D. and Scholten, M. (2012) "Tradeoffs between sequences : weighing accumulated outcomes against outcome-adjusted delays.", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Volume 38, Number 6, 1675-1688
- Read, D. and Grushka-Cockayne, Y. (2010) "The similarity heuristic", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol.24, No.1, 23-46
- Scholten, M. and Read, D. (2010) "The psychology of intertemporal tradeoffs", Psychological Review, Vol.117, No.3, 925-944
- Huysentruyt, M. and Read, D. (2010) "How do people value extended warranties? Evidence from two field surveys", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol.40, No.3, 197-218
- Reynolds, T. W., Bostrom, A., Read, D. and Morgan, M. G. (2010) "Now what do people know about global climate change? Survey studies of educated laypeople", Risk Analysis, Vol.30, No.10, 1520-1538
- de Groot, I. M., Antonides, G., Read, D. and Raaij, W. F. v. (2009) "The effects of direct experience on consumer product evaluation", Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol.38, No.3, 509-518
Book Item
- Daniel Read (2009) "Experimental tests of rationality", Oxford University Press, Oxford
