THE RESEARCHERS

​Robin Murphy

Professor at Oxford University.
​He is interested in how humans and other animals learn. 
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Jack Southall

MSci Student.
​His research investigates how large language models (LLMs) make causal judgements in null contingency conditions. The project examines whether LLM outputs mirror human cognitive biases.
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Isobelle Hawkins

PhD Student.
She is interested in the early development of logical reasoning in children and whether similar capabilities exist in non-human animals.
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Riddhi Jain Pitliya

Researcher at VERSES. 
She completed her PhD under this lab. Her thesis was titled "Perceiving Agency in a Multi-Agent Context: More Interactions with the Environment yet Reduced Agency in Depression", which used active inference to model how people learn the degree and type of agency they, and others, have in an individual and group setting, and how such learning alters with varying depression symptoms.
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Georgia Avery

MSci Student. 
Her research investigates how ADHD symptomatology influences affiliation with large language model-based chatbots prompted to exhibit ADHD-like traits..
georgia.avery@ccc.ox.ac.uk

Santiago Castiello de Obeso

Post-Doc at Yale University with Prof. Philip Corlett.
He completed his PhD under this lab. His thesis was titled "Computational Dissection of Schizotypy: Differential Contingency Weighting", which explored the effects of schizotypy on perception, associative, and instrumental learning.
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COLLABORATORS

Andy Baker

Professor Baker studies mechanisms by which humans estimate co-variance between events and make causality judgements.

Martino Belvederi Murri

Assistant Professor at University of Ferrara. He is interested in how depressed individuals learn the degree and type of agency they, and others, have in an individual and group setting.

Federica Folesani

MD and PhD student at University of Ferrara. She is interested in how depressed individuals learn the degree and type of agency they, and others, have in an individual and group setting.

Rahmi Saylik

Post-Doc.
​His research examines personality related differences in associative learning with emotional stimuli and stress induction.

Dan Lametti

Dan Lametti is a Professor of Psychology at Acadia University and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. A former Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, his research now intersects cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Specifically, he investigates human-AI affiliation, exploring the psychological mechanisms that drive social bonding between humans and AI agents and how these interactions influence trust, behaviour, and personality change. 

Rachel Msetfi

Professor at Limerick University, Rachel's work focuses on understanding how people learn to predict and control events which occur in their lives.
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Rob McDonald

Dr. McDonald studies the interaction between memory and learning systems and the role of memory system dysfunction in the aetiology of psychiatric disorder. ​

Stelios Kiosses

Stelios Kiosses is a psychotherapist and Clinical Lead.  He is also an instructor and the creator of the Culinary Psychology course at Harvard University. Additionally, he is the author of "The Power of Talking: Stories from the Therapy Room." In his public role, Stelios is a TV psychologist for Channel 4's hit series "The Hoarder Next Door," narrated by Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman.​

Gabriella Fitzgerald

She researched associative learning mechanisms.

Ralph Miller

Professor Miller is a distinguished professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He explores acquisition, retention, retrieval and response generation as a function of contingency manipulations, stimulus competition and associative interference. 

Paolo Ossola

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at University of Parma Honorary & Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry at AUSL of Parma & Head of the Day Hospital Service, Department of Mental Health, AUSL of Parma.

James Witnauer

MD and PhD student at University of Ferrara. She is interested in how depressed individuals learn the degree and type of agency they, and others, have in an individual and group setting.

Saul Sal-Sarria

Dr. Sal-Sarria studies brain development and behaviour, with interests spanning early-life influences and the neural systems underlying consciousness.

ALUMNI

Dyedra Morrissey

Dr. Morrissey is an academic and consultant specialising in Time Management and the Psychology of Time Perception, focusing on the so called "Planning Fallacy". She completed her interdisciplinary DPhil at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Murphy and Dr. Eamonn Molloy from the Saïd Business School.

Georgina Asbitt

Dr. Asbitt completed her DPhil under the supervision of Professor Murphy. Her research focused on the assessment of impulsivity in individuals with psychopathy. Georgina is currently studying for a Clinical Doctorate at UCL.
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Nancy Tucker

Nancy's research project looks at levels of body dysmorphia in women seeking genital cosmetic surgery.

Nicola Byrom

Lecturer at Kings College London, Nicola is interested in individual differences in learning.

Andres Ojeda Laguna

Andres studies decision making and is interested in the decisions made when information about rewards is delayed.

Noemi Dreksler

Noemi is interested in multi-sensory perception and cross-modal correspondences.
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Elisa Militaru

Elisa completed an Experimental Psychology Society funded studentship using eye tracking to assess fear conditioning.

Alexander Temple McCune

Alex's research examined psychopathy related differences in the formation of associative bonds with multidimensional stimuli. It's with great sadness that we acknowledge his passing away; he is greatly missed.

Carys Dally

Cary's research project is looking at the prevalence of body dysmorphia in women seeking genital cosmetic surgery.

Anna Marmadoro

Dr. Marmodoro specialises in contemporary metaphysics and ancient, medieval and late antiquity philosophy. She has a strong interest in the philosophy of the mind and the philosophy of perception.

Michael Ben Yehuda

Michael's research focusses on investigating the effects of metacognition of action on the way we process information, learn, and make decisions.

Sonja Stiebahl

Sonja is working on a project on paradoxical choices in relationship to associative learning.