Michael Smithson

Australian National University — Australia

Decision Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(34), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference(21), Multi-Criteria Decision Making(15), Social and Intergroup Psychology(12), Complex Systems and Decision Making(12)

Publications223 total

Conflictive Uncertainty: A Framework for Understanding the Aversion to Conflicting Information in Social Contexts
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·2025Open Access
An investigation of the convergent validity and test–retest reliability of three uncertainty preference measures
Behavior Research Methods·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
An Experimental Investigation of Treatment Decisions under Ambiguity and Conflict
Medical Decision Making·2025
Communicating certainty via verbal probability phrases: comparing health contexts with no context
BMC Primary Care·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Confidence Interval
International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science·2025
Dialing in to Digital Disruption: Can Instructions Ward Off Technology‐Based Fluency Biases?
Applied Cognitive Psychology·2025Open Access
Ethics in Quantitative Research
2024
School Refusal Behaviors: The Roles of Adolescent and Parental Factors
Behavior Modification·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Mis- and Disinformation
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science·2024· 1 cited
The receiver operating characteristic area under the curve (or mean ridit) as an effect size.
Psychological Methods·2023· 10 cited
Curiously different: Interest-curiosity and deprivation-curiosity may have distinct benefits and drawbacks
Personality and Individual Differences·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
Open or opposed to unknowns: How do curious people think and feel about uncertainty?
Personality and Individual Differences·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Understanding Australian Government Risk Communication Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sociodemographics, Risk Attitudes and Media Consumption
Journal of Health Communication·2023· 4 cited
The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development
Cognitive Development·2023· 12 cited
Flexible CDF-quantile distributions on the closed unit interval, with software and applications
Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Flexible CDF-quantile distributions on the closed unit interval, with software and applications
Figshare·2023Open Access
Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.
Health Psychology·2022· 9 cited
Ignorance Studies
2022· 2 cited
Ignorance and the Brain
2022
The Psychological Benefits of an Uncertain World: Hope and Optimism in the Face of Existential Threat
Frontiers in Psychology·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jay Verkuilen(5), Yiyun Shou(3), Stephan Lewandowsky(3), James S. Risbey(3), Ben R. Newell(3), Margaret Foddy(3), Amy Dawel(2), Nicolas Cherbuin(2), Michelle Banfield(2), Alison L. Calear(2), Louise M. Farrer(2), Amelia Gulliver(2), Alyssa R. Morse(2), Kristen Murray(2), David V. Budescu(2), Han‐Hui Por(2), Stephen B. Broomell(2), Helen Pushkarskaya(2), Jane E. Joseph(2), Darren Gray(1)