Staff Profile:Dr Rachel McCloy

Name:

Dr Rachel McCloy

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Student Recruitment

Teaching:

Research Methods, Cognition, Issues in Rationality; MSc Developmental Aspects of Cognition

Areas of interest:

Judgment and Decision Making. Counterfactual Thinking. Fast and Frugal Heuristics. Probabilistic Reasoning. Behavioral Economics. Neuroeconomics.

Personal webpages:

UoR personal page;

Qualifications:

BA, Dublin; PG Diploma in Statistics, Dublin; PhD, Dublin; PG Certificate in Academic Practice, Reading

Areas of Interest:

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

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Jump to: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

Number of items: 18.

2012

• Liu, J., Yao, R. and McCloy, R. (2012) A method to weight three categories of adaptive thermal comfort. Energy and Buildings, 47 . pp. 312-320. ISSN 0378-7788 doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.12.007

2011

• McCloy, R., Beaman, C. P. and Smith, P. (2011) The relative success of recognition-based inference in multichoice decisions. In: Gigerenzer, G., Hertwig, R. and Pachur, T. (eds.) Heuristics: the foundations of adaptive behavior. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 351-362. ISBN 9780199744282

2010

• McCloy, R. A., Beaman, C. P., Frosch, C. A. and Goddard, K. (2010) Fast and frugal framing effects? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 36 (4). pp. 1043-1052. ISSN 1939-1285 doi: 10.1037/a0019693
• Beaman, C. P., Smith, P. T., Frosch, C. A. and McCloy, R. A. (2010) Less-is-more effects without the recognition heuristic. Judgment and Decision-Making, 5 (4). pp. 258-271. ISSN 1930-2975
• McCloy, R. A., Byrne, R. M. J. and Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2010) Understanding cumulative risk. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 63 (3). pp. 499-515. ISSN 0272-4987 doi: 10.1080/17470210903024784
• Beaman, C. P., Smith, P. and McCloy, R. (2010) Less-is-more effects in knowledge-based heuristic inference. In: CogSci 2010 - 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August 11th - 14th 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 1014-1019.

2009

• McCloy, R. and Strange, P. (2009) Children’s understanding of counterfactual alternatives. In: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 1627-1632.
• McSorley, E. and McCloy, R. (2009) Saccadic eye movements as an index of perceptual decision-making. Experimental Brain Research, 198 (4). pp. 513-520. ISSN 0014-4819 doi: 10.1007/s00221-009-1952-9

2008

• McCloy, R., Beaman, C. P. and Smith, P. T. (2008) The relative success of recognition-based inference in multichoice decisions. Cognitive Science, 32 (6). pp. 1037-1048. ISSN 0364-0213 doi: 10.1080/03640210802152319

2007

• Frosch, C.A. , Beaman, C.P. and McCloy, R. (2007) Deciding the price of fame. In: 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , Nashville, Tennessee, USA, pp. 1001-1005.
• Beaman, C.P. and McCloy, R. (2007) From base-rate to cumulative respect. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30 (3). pp. 256-257. ISSN 0140-525X doi: 10.1017/s0140525x07001677
• McCloy, R., Beaman, C. P., Morgan, B. and Speed, R. (2007) Training conditional and cumulative risk judgements: the role of frequencies, problem-structure and Einstellung. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21 (3). pp. 325-344. ISSN 0888-4080 doi: 10.1002/acp.1273
• Frosch, C.A., Beaman, C. P. and McCloy, R. (2007) A little learning is a dangerous thing: an experimental demonstration of ignorance-driven inference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60 (10). pp. 1329-1336. ISSN 1747-0218 doi: 10.1080/17470210701507949

2006

• McCloy, R., Beaman, C.P. and Goddard, K. (2006) Rich and famous: recognition-based judgment in the Sunday Times rich list. In: 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada , pp. 1801-1805.
• Beaman, C.P., McCloy, R. and Smith, P.T. (2006) When does ignorance make us smart? Additional factors guiding heuristic inference. In: 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada , pp. 54-58.

2005

• McCloy, R. and Beaman, C. P. (2005) Problem-structure and format in training conditional and cumulative risk judgments. In: 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, pp. 1449-1454.

2004

• McCloy, R. and Beaman, C. P. (2004) The recognition heuristic: fast and frugal, but not as simple as it seems. In: 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 933-937.

2003

• Green, D.W. and McCloy, R. (2003) Reaching a verdict. Thinking & Reasoning, 9 (4). pp. 307-333. ISSN 1354-6783 doi: 10.1080/1354678034000268

This list was generated on Sat May 26 20:09:57 2012 BST.