Professor Richard Tunney, BSc, DPhil,

Scientific articles

  • Rogers, J., Dymond, S., Sharman, S.P., Ludvig, E., and Tunney, R.J. (2023). High stakes. Commentary on the 2023 UK Government White Paper on Gambling Reform. Addiction, 118 2030-2031.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Raybould, J. (2023). The relationship between subjective social status, impulsivity and addictive behaviours. Psychiatry Research Communications, 3, 100130
  • Tunney, R.J. (2023). Psychology and the stock market. In A. Smith (Ed.). Cognition in the Real World. Oxford University Press.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Raybould, J. (2023). Thinking about neither death nor poverty affects delay discounting, but episodic foresight does: Three replications of the effects of priming on time preferences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 838-849.
  • Raybould J., Watling D., Larkin M., and Tunney R.J.) (2023). The gaming problem: a latent class analysis of DSM-5 criteria for internet gaming disorder in a non-clinical sample. F1000Research, 11, 806.
  • Raybould, J., Larkin, M., and Tunney, R.J. (2022). Impulsivity may be a risk factor in the transition from recreational to problem gaming. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 7, 100230.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2022). Deprivation in childhood linked to impulsive behaviour in adulthood. The Conversation, 27th October.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2022). Economic and social deprivation predicts impulsive choice in children. Nature Scientific Reports, 12, 8942.
  • Tunney, R.J. and James, R.J.E. (2022). Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Royal Society Open Science, 12, 220102.
  • Whiteford, S., Hoon, A.E., James, R.J.E., Tunney, R.J., and Dymond, S. (2022). Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 6, 100194.
  • Tunney, R.J., and Shaw, R. (2021). Helen Pattison, 1955 – 2021. The Psychologist, March. 70. Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., and Tunney, R.J. (2021). Do we become more cautious for thers when large amounts of money are at stake? Experimental Psychology, 68, 32-40. 69.
  • Raybould, J., Larkin, M., and Tunney, R.J. (2021). Is There a Health Inequality in Gambling Related Harms? A Systematic Review. BMC Public Health, 21, 305.
  • Wardle, H. et al. (2020). Open letter from UK based academic scientists to the secretaries of state for digital, culture, media and sport and for health and social care regarding the need for independent funding for the prevention and treatment of gambling harms. British Medical Journal, BMJ 2020;370:m2613.
  • Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., and Tunney, R.J. (2020). A mixed methods investigation of end-of-life surrogate decisions among older adults. BMC Palliative Care, 19, 1-12.
  • Flayelle, M., et. al. (2020). Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching: Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching en- gagement and symptoms” questionnaires across nine languages. Computers in Human Behavior, 111, 106410.
  • Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., and Tunney, R.J. (2019). Do we make decisions for other people based on our predictions of their preferences? Evidence from financial and medical scenarios involving risk. Thinking and Reasoning, 26, 188-217.
  • Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., and Tunney, R.J. (2019). On the likelihood of surrogates conforming to the substituted judgment standard when making end-of-life decisions for their partner. Medical Decision Making, 39, 651-660.
  • Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., and Tunney, R.J. (2019). Do our risk preferences change when we make decisions for others? A meta-analysis of self-other differences in decisions involving risk. PLoS ONE 14:5: 0216566.
  • Ellerby, Z. and Tunney, R.J. (2019). Probability Matching on a Simple Simulated For- aging Task: The Effects of Reward Persistence and Accumulation on Choice Behaviour. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 15, 111-126.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2019). Book review: Michael J Beran. Self-control in animals and people. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2362-2354.
  • Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., and Tunney, R.J. (2019). Exploring how accountability affects the medical decisions we make for other people. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:79.
  • James, R.J.E., O’Malley, C., and Tunney, R.J. (2018). Gambling on Smartphones: A study of a potentially addictive behaviour in a naturalistic setting. European Addiction Research, 25, 30-40.
  • King, D., and the Gaming Industry Response Consortium (2018). Comment on the global gaming industry’s statement on ICD-11 gaming disorder: A corporate strategy to disre- gard harm and deflect social responsibility. Addiction, 113, 2145-2146.
  • Ellerby, Z. and Tunney, R.J. (2017). The effects of heuristics and apophenia on proba- bilistic choice. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13, 280-295.
  • Tunney, R.J. and James, R.J.E. (2017). The relationship between Gaming Disorder and addiction requires a behavioural analysis. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 6, 306-309.
  • Tunney, R.J. and James, R.J.E. (2017). Criteria for conceptualizing behavioral addiction should be informed by the underlying behavioral mechanism. Addiction, 112, 1720-1721.
  • Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., Tunney, R.J. (2017). Risk Preferences in Surrogate Decision Making. Experimental Psychology, 64, 290-297.
  • Ma, L.K., Tunney, R.J., and Ferguson, E. (2017). Does gratitude enhance prosociality: A meta-analytic review? Psychological Bulletin, 143, 601-635.
  • James, R.J.E., O’Malley, C., and Tunney, R.J. (2017). Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis. British Journal of Psychology, 108, 608-625.
  • James, R.J.E. and Tunney, R.J. (2017). The need for a behavioral analysis of behavioral addictions. Clinical Psychology Review, 52, 69-76.
  • James, R.J.E., Dubey, I., Smith, D., Ropar, D., and Tunney, R.J. (2016). The latent structure of autistic traits: A taxometric, latent class and latent profile analysis of the Adult Autism Spectrum Quotient. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 3712-3728.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2016). Empiricism and language learnability? Quarterly Journal of Exper- imental Psychology, 70, 345-346.
  • James, R.J.E., O’Malley, C., and Tunney, R.J. (2016). Sociodemographic predictors of latent class membership of problematic and disordered gamblers. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 3, 61-69.
  • James, R.J.E., O’Malley, C., and Tunney, R.J. (2016). Loss of control as a discriminating factor between different latent classes of disordered gambling severity. Journal of Gambling Studies, 32, 1155-1173.
  • 46. Ziegler, F.V. and Tunney, R.J. (2016). The reality of life and death decisions. The Psychologist, 29, 82-91.
  • James, R.J.E., O’Malley, C., and Tunney, R.J. (2016). Why are some games more addic- tive than others: The effects of timing and payoff on perseverance in a slot machine game. Decision Neuroscience, 10.3389.
  • Tunney, R.J. , and Allen, H.A., Bonardi, C., and Blake, H. (2016). The effects of ageing and exercise on recollection and familiarity-based memory processes. In D. Bruno (Ed.). The Preservation of Memory. London: Psychology Press.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Ziegler, F.V. (2015). Toward a Psychology of surrogate decision-making. Perspectives on Psychological Sciences, 10, 880-885.
  • Ziegler, F.V. and Tunney, R.J. (2015). Who’s been framed? Framing effects are reduced in financial gambles made for others. BMC Psychology, 3:9.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Ziegler, F.V. (2015). Surrogate utility estimation by long-term partners and unfamiliar dyads. Frontiers in Psychology, 10.3389.
  • Bisson, M-J., Van Hueven, W., Conklin, K., and Tunney, R.J. (2015). The role of verbal and pictorial information in multimodal incidental acquisition of foreign language vocab- ulary. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 1306-1326.
  • Bisson, M-J., Van Hueven, W., Conklin, K., and Tunney, R.J. (2014). The Role of Repeated Exposure to Multi-modal Input in Incidental Acquisition of Foreign Language Vocabulary. Language Learning, 64, 855-877.
  • Ma, L.K., Tunney, R.J. and Ferguson, E. (2014). Gratefully received, gratefully repaid: The role of perceived fairness in cooperative interactions. PLoS ONE 9:12, e114976.
  • James, R.J.E., O’Malley, C., Tunney, R.J. (2014). On the latent structure of problem gambling: A taxometric analysis. Addiction, 109, 1707-1717.
  • Bisson, M-J., Van Hueven, W., Conklin, K., and Tunney, R.J. (2014). Processing of native and foreign language subtitles in films: An eye tracking study. Applied Psycholinguistics, 35, 399-418.
  • 3Fernie, G. and Tunney, R.J. (2013). Learning on the Iowa Gambling Task follows emer- gence of knowledge but not differential somatic activity. Frontiers in Decision Neuro- science, 4, 10.3389.
  • Mullet, T.L. and Tunney, R.J. (2013). Value representations by rank order in a distributed network of varying context dependency. Brain and Cognition, 82, 76-83.
  • Bisson, M-J., Van Hueven, W., Conklin, K., and Tunney, R.J. (2013). Incidental acquisi- tion of foreign language vocabulary through brief multi-modal exposure. PLoS ONE 8:4, e60912.
  • Hogarth, L., Stillwell, D.J., and Tunney, R.J. (2013). Impulsivity and acute nicotine ex- posure are associated with discounting global consequences in the Harvard game. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 28, 72-79.
  • Ziegler. F.V., Tunney, R.J. (2012) Decisions for others become less impulsive the further away they are on the family tree. PLoS ONE, 7:11, e49479.
  • Stillwell, D. and Tunney, R.J. (2012). Individuals’ insight into intrapersonal externalities. Judgment and Decision Making, 7, 390-401.
  • Stillwell, D. and Tunney, R.J. (2012). Effects of measurement methods on the relationship between smoking and delay reward discounting. Addiction, 107, 1003-1012.
  • Tunney, R.J., Mullett, T.L., Moross, C.L., and Gardner, A. (2012). Does the butcher- on-the-bus phenomenon require a dual-process explanation? A signal detection analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:208.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Fernie, G. (2011). Episodic and prototype models of category learning. Cognitive Processing, 13, 41-54.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2010). Do changes in the subjective experience of recognition over time sug- gest independent processes? British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 63, 43-62.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Fernie, G. (2010). Emotion influences decision-making: Effects of emo- tional reinforcement on learning in the Iowa gambling task. Advances in Psychology Research, 62, 255-267.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2010). Similarity and confidence in artificial grammar learning. Experimental Psychology, 57, 160-168.
  • Tunney, R.J., Fernie, G., and Astle, D. (2010). An ERP analysis of recognition and categorization decisions in a prototype-distortion task. PLoS ONE, 5:4, e10116.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2009). Preference reversals. In M. Kattan (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making. New York: Sage. 48-50.
  • Stillwell, D. and Tunney, R.J. (2009). Melioration behaviour in the Harvard game is reduced by simplifying decision outcomes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2252-2261.
  • Newell, B.R., Weston, N.J., Tunney, R.J., and Shanks, D.R. (2009). The effectiveness of feedback in multiple-cue probability learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psy- chology, 62, 9892-908.
  • Fernie, G. and Tunney, R.J. (2008). Decision Making in the Iowa Gambling Task. In G.R. Burthold (Ed.) Psychology of Decision Making in Legal, Health Care and Science Settings. New York: Nova.
  • Rosenberg, J. and Tunney, R.J. (2008). Human vocabulary use as display. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 538-549.
  • Madsen, E., Tunney, R.J., Fieldman, G., Plotkin, H.C., Dunbar, R.I.M., Henzi, S.P., Richardson, J-M., and McFarland, D. (2007). Kinship and altruism: A cross-cultural experimental study. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 339-359.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Bezzina, G. (2007). Effects of retention intervals on receiver operating characteristics in artificial grammar learning. Acta Psychologica, 125, 37-50.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Fernie, G. (2007). Repetition priming affects guessing not familiarity. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 3:40.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2007). The subjective experience of remembering in artificial grammar learning. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19, 934-952.
  • Fernie, G. and Tunney, R.J. (2006). Some decks are better than others: The effect of reinforcer type and task instructions on learning in the Iowa Gambling Task. Brain and Cognition, 60, 94-102.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2006). Preference reversals are diminished when gambles are presented as relative frequencies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1516-1523.
  • Tunney, R.J. (2005). Sources of Confidence in Implicit Cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 367-373.
  • Stephens, R. and Tunney, R.J. (2004). How does chewing gum affect cognitive function? Reply to Scholey (2004). Appetite, 43, 217-218.
  • Stephens, R. and Tunney, R.J. (2004). Role of glucose in chewing gum-related facilitation of cognitive function. Appetite, 43,211-213.
  • Tunney, R.J. Implicit and Explicit Knowledge Decay at Different Rates: A Dissociation Between Priming and Recognition in Artificial Grammar Learning. Experimental Psychology, 50, 124-130.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Shanks, D.R. (2003). Does Opposition Logic Provide Evidence for Multiple Processes in Artificial Grammar Learning? Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 201-208.
  • Kinder, A., Shanks, D.R., Cock, J., and Tunney, R.J. (2003). Recollection, Fluency, and the Explicit/Implicit Distinction in Artificial Grammar Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132 551-565.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Shanks, D.R. (2003). Subjective Measures of Awareness and Implicit Cognition. Memory and Cognition, 31, 1060-1071.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Shanks, D.R. (2002). A Re-examination of Melioration and Rational Choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15, 291-311.
  • Shanks, D.R., Tunney, R.J. and McCarthy, J. (2002). A Re-examination of Probability Matching and Rational Choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15, 233-250.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). Two Modes of Transfer in Artificial Grammar Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 25, 614- 639.
  • Tunney, R.J. and Altmann, G.T.M. (1999). The Transfer Effect in Artificial Grammar Learning: Reappraising the Evidence on the transfer of Sequential Dependencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 25, 1322-1333.