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Dr Paul Rauwolf

Lecturer

p.rauwolf@bangor.ac.uk

0000-0002-4715-8644

Dr Paul Rauwolf

View Dr Paul Rauwolf’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Overview

Paul is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Sport Science at Bangor University. In 2016, Paul received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Oxford. He completed his postdoctorial work in Psychology at Bangor University. Broadly, Paul seeks to better understand and improve how individuals make decisions in uncertain, social environments. He is particularly interested in environmental psychology and improving sustainable / cooperative behaviours in complex, social environments.

Teaching and Supervision

Taught modules:

Advanced Research Methods (PRP-4014): Paul teaches Advanced Research Methods for a variety of MSc programmes. The module teaches a variety of statistical methods, with the aim to give students confidence when analysing data. Students are able to choose to learn analysis techniques using either SPSS or R (no prior experience of either SPSS or R is required). By the end of this course, students understand how poor usage of analysis techniques led to the replicability crisis. They also understand how to avoid such pitfalls and correctly employ state of the art data analysis techniques in a variety of contexts. 

MSc and BSc research projects:

Paul supervises several MSc and BSc research projects each year. The lab meets regularly to discuss ideas and progress. 

The projects this year will seek to better understand how individuals learn about sustainability over time. Participants will play the RDG with the same partners multiple times. We will measure how each participant’s behaviour changes as they learn more about their partners and the resource. We expect some people to improve their sustainable practices over time, but others will continue to struggle. Therefore, this project will attempt to better understand the individual factors related to how individuals learn to adjust their behaviour over time. We will evaluate whether certain social factors (e.g. the tendency to judge others harshly) and health risk factors (e.g. impulsivity) predict difficulty in learning how to cooperate with others and sustain a resource over time. By learning more about the time it takes for individuals to learn sustainable behaviour, we hope this project can inform future sustainable policy initiatives.

Research Interests

Paul's research seeks to understand and improve how we make decisions in highly uncertain environments. To do this, his research sits at the intersection of behavioural economics, well-being, and environmental psychology. His recent work has shown that health risk factors (e.g. depression) is associated with difficulty learning to sustain resources and vulnerability to misinformation. Currently, his lab is focusing on evaluating how individual characteristics, environmental factors, and social factors interact to predict sustainable behaviour. 

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

Self-funded (inc. agency-funded) PhD projects: 

Dr. Rauwolf welcomes informal enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in projects related to several aspects of human decision-making and cooperation, including: decision-making biases, decision-making under uncertainty, social decision-making in cooperative contexts, and misinformation in social media / online outlets. If you are interested in discussing opportunities, please contact me at p.rauwolf@bangor.ac.uk

Publications

2025

  • PublishedComputational rationality and developmental neurodivergence
    Jones, S., Rauwolf, P. & Westermann, G., 8 Feb 2025, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • E-pub ahead of printVerbal feedback modulates language choice and risk-taking in Chinese-English bilinguals
    Yang, W., Rauwolf, P., Molina Nieto, O., Frances, C., Wei, Y., Duñabeitia, J. A. & Thierry, G., 27 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, p. 1-12.
    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2024

  • PublishedChinese-English bilinguals prefer being truthful in the native language
    Yang, W., Rauwolf, P., Frances, C., Molina-Nieto, O., Duñabeitia, J. A. & Thierry, G., 8 Jan 2024, In: Frontiers in Language Sciences. 2
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedClosing the Gap: How Psychological Distance Influences Willingness to Engage in Risky COVID Behavior
    Williams, C., Rauwolf, P., Boulter, M. & Parkinson, J. A., 27 May 2024, In: Behavioral Sciences. 14, 6, 449.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedHealth factors that influence sustainable behaviour in a single-player resource management game
    Rauwolf, P., McKinnon, A., Bilderbeck, A. C. & Rogers, R., 1 Apr 2024, In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 31, 2, p. 734-749 16 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

  • PublishedInterpersonal factors and mental well-being are associated with accuracy in judging the veracity of political news
    Rauwolf, P., May 2022, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 36, 3, p. 581-601 21 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

  • Published'Just not knowing' can make life sweeter (and saltier): Reward uncertainty alters the sensory experience and consumption of palatable food and drinks
    Rauwolf, P., Mallard, S., Wong, N., Witt, A., Davies, T., Cahill, A., Madden, G. J., Parkinson, J. & Rogers, R., Oct 2021, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 150, 10, p. 2015-2035
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

  • PublishedEvolutionary Psychology and Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Behaviour
    Wilson, H., Rauwolf, P. & Bryson, J. J., 25 Nov 2020, The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology: Applications of Evolutionary Psychology. 1 ed. London, p. 333-351 19 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedHostility is associated with self-reported cognitive and social benefits across Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game player-roles
    Smith, C. M., Rauwolf, P., Intriligator, J. & Rogers, R. D., Jul 2020, In: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 23, 7, p. 487-494
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

  • PublishedExploring the utility of internal whistleblowing in healthcare via agent-based models
    Rauwolf, P. & Jones, A., 25 Jan 2019, In: BMJ Open. 9, 1, e021705.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

  • PublishedExpectations of Fairness and Trust Co-Evolve in Environments of Partial Information
    Rauwolf, P. & Bryson, J., Dec 2018, In: Dynamic Games and Applications. 8, 4, p. 891-917
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

  • PublishedOn the reliability of unreliable information Gossip as cultural memory
    Mitchell, D., Bryson, J. J., Rauwolf, P. & Ingram, G. P. D., Jan 2016, In: Interaction Studies. 17, 1, p. 1-18
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

  • PublishedValue homophily benefits cooperation but motivates employing incorrect social information
    Rauwolf, P., Mitchell, D. & Bryson, J. J., 21 Feb 2015, In: Journal of Theoretical Biology. 367, p. 246-261
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Projects

  • Understanding the psychological risk factors for believing political misinformation by merging neural network and multiple regression models

    28/01/2022 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)

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