Prof. Andrew M. Colman
I have a BA (Combined Studies), BA (Hons, Psychology), MA and PhD (Psychology), FHEA, FBPsS, and CPsychol. I taught at Cape Town and Rhodes Universities before the University of Leicester, where I was promoted to Reader in 1984 and Professor in 2000. My research interests are in judgment and decision making, game theory, experimental games, and psychometrics. I am currently the featured author for science and technology, Oxford Reference.
My teaching focuses on judgment and decision making and social psychology, and my research focus is largely experimental, but I'm also interested in game theory itself, as well as issues relating to its foundations, and I use agent-based simulation methods for some of my research into the evolution of cooperation. I collaborate with economists, mathematicians, and psychologists, and I consider my research to be cross-disciplinary.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Evolution and Genetics
- Interpersonal Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
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Books:
Journal Articles:
- Browning, L., & Colman, A. M. (2004). Evolution of coordinated alternating reciprocity in repeated dyadic games. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 229, 549-557.
- Colman, A. M. (2016). Race differences in IQ: Hans Eysenck’s contribution to the debate in the light of subsequent research. Personality and Individual Differences, 103, 182–109. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.050
- Colman, A. M. (2006). Thomas C. Schelling’s psychological decision theory: Introduction to a special issue. Journal of Economic Psychology, 27, 603-608.
- Colman, A. M. (2003). Cooperation, psychological game theory, and limitations of rationality in social interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 139-153.
- Colman, A. M., & Browning, L. (2009). Evolution of cooperation without awareness in minimal social situations. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 11, 949-963.
- Colman, A. M., Browning, L., & Pulford, B. D. (2012). Spontaneous similarity discrimination in the evolution of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 299, 162-171.
- Colman, A. M., & Gold, N. (2018). Team reasoning: Solving the puzzle of coordination. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(5), 1770–1783. doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1399-0
- Colman, A. M., Körner, T. W., Musy, O., & Tazdaït, T. (2011). Mutual support in games: Some properties of Berge equilibria. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 166-175.
- Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2012). Problems and pseudo-problems in understanding cooperation in social dilemmas. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 39-47.
- Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Bolger, F. (2007). Asymmetric dominance and phantom decoy effects in games. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 104, 193-206.
- Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Lawrence, C. L. (2014). Explaining strategic coordination: Cognitive hierarchy theory, strong Stackelberg reasoning, and team reasoning. Decision, 1(1), 35–58. doi:10.1037/dec0000001
- Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., Omtzigt, D., & al-Nowaihi, A. (2010). Learning to cooperate without awareness in multiplayer minimal social situations. Cognitive Psychology, 61, 201-227.
- Colman, A. M., Pulford, B. D., & Rose, J. (2008). Collective rationality in interactive decisions: Evidence for team reasoning. Acta Psychologica, 128, 387-397.
- Krockow, E. M., Colman, A. M., & Pulford, B. D. (2016). Cooperation in repeated interactions: A systematic review of Centipede game experiments, 1992–2016. European Review of Social Psychology, 27(1), 231–282. doi:10.1080/10463283.2016.1249640
- Liu, H.-H., & Colman, A. M. (2009). Ambiguity aversion in the long run: Repeated decisions under risk and uncertainty. Journal of Economic Psychology, 30, 277-284.
- Pulford, B. D., & Colman, A. M. (2007). Ambiguous games: Evidence for strategic ambiguity aversion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1083-1100.
- Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M. Buabang, E. K., & Krockow, E. M. (2018). The persuasive power of knowledge: Testing the confidence heuristic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(10), 1431–1444. doi:10.1037/xge0000471 006
- Pulford, B. D., Colman, A. M., Lawrence, C. L., & Krockow, E. M. (2017). Reasons for cooperating in repeated interactions: Social value orientations, fuzzy traces, reciprocity, and activity bias. Decision, 4(2), 102–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000057
- Rapoport, A., Seale, D. A., & Colman, A. M. (2015). Is tit-for-tat the answer? On the conclusions drawn from Axelrod’s tournaments. PLOS ONE, 10(7) e0134128. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.013412
Courses Taught:
- Cooperation, Conflict and Social Dilemmas
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Social Behaviour and Development 1
- Social Behaviour and Development 2
Prof. Andrew M. Colman
Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
College of Life Sciences
University of Leicester
Leicester LE1 7RH
United Kingdom
- Phone: +44 (0)116 229 7191
- Fax: +44 (0)116 229 7196
- Skype Name: andrew.m.colman