My interests lie in both social and cognitive psychology, thus I am interested in social judgements, metacognition, overconfidence, uncertainty, the communication and perception of confidence and how all of these relate to individual differences.

Recently, I have been researching team reasoning and ambiguity aversion in decision making. My Ph.D. concerned overconfidence in judgements, but since then I have been working on how people perceive and interpret confidence and uncertainty in communication and how this affects decision making. I have been particularly involved in testing the confidence heuristic and examining the gender differences and individual differences influencing how people make use of information about other people’s confidence. This has influenced my recent research into advice taking and advice giving. I have also carried out several studies looking at decision making and advice seeking behaviour when people are uncertain. My Sabbatical research in 2001/2 cast light on new factors that influence ambiguity aversion in decision making. Other research has involved studying the personality factors that influence students’ confidence and beliefs about their academic abilities, and predictors of self-handicapping in students.