Chris Starmer

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Biography

Chris joined the University of Nottingham in 2000 where he is Professor of Experimental Economics. He gained his PhD at the University of East Anglia where he also worked as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer. His main research interests are in individual and strategic decision making, experimental economics and the methodology of economics. He is Director of the CeDEx Research Centre at the School of Economics.

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Research Summary

Chris is best known for his work studying human decision making using a combination of theoretical and empirical (especially experimental) approaches. His work examines aspects of human motivation… read more

Recent Publications

• ISLER, O, GAECHTER, S, MAULE, J and STARMER, CHRIS, 2021. Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics Scientific Reports. 11, 13868
• MURAD, Z and STARMER, C, 2021. Confidence snowballing and relative performance feedback Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 190, 550-572
• ALEMPAKI, D, CADIC, E, MULLETT, T, STEWART, N, STARMER, C, SKYLARK, W and FABIO TUFANO, 2019. 50. Re-examining how utility and weighting functions get their shapes: a quasi-adversarial collaboration providing a new interpretation Management Science.
• ALEMPAKI, D, STARMER, C and TUFANO, F, 2019. On the priming of risk preferences: The role of fear and general affect Journal of Economic Psychology.

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Current Research

Chris is best known for his work studying human decision making using a combination of theoretical and empirical (especially experimental) approaches. His work examines aspects of human motivation and decision processes including topics such as: how do people factor risk into their decisions; how to they trade off different dimensions of decisions (e.g. gains versus losses; the present versus the future); how do people influence each other's decisions; how do people make decisions in complex environments. Starmer has published widely across the leading international journals (e.g. American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Review of Economic Studies, Management Science, Nature Human Behaviour). He is also co-author of a book - Experimental Economics: rethinking the rules - examining the methodological foundations of experimental economics.

• ISLER, O, GAECHTER, S, MAULE, J and STARMER, CHRIS, 2021. Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics Scientific Reports. 11, 13868
• MURAD, Z and STARMER, C, 2021. Confidence snowballing and relative performance feedback Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 190, 550-572
• ALEMPAKI, D, CADIC, E, MULLETT, T, STEWART, N, STARMER, C, SKYLARK, W and FABIO TUFANO, 2019. 50. Re-examining how utility and weighting functions get their shapes: a quasi-adversarial collaboration providing a new interpretation Management Science.
• ALEMPAKI, D, STARMER, C and TUFANO, F, 2019. On the priming of risk preferences: The role of fear and general affect Journal of Economic Psychology.
• KÖLLE, F, NOSENZO, D, LANE, T and STARMER, C, 2019. Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms Behavioural Public Policy.
• MOLLEMAN, L, KÖLLE, F, STARMER, C and GÄCHTER, S, 2019. People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions Nature Human Behaviour. 3, 1145–1153
• ISLER O, MAULE J and STARMER C, 2018. Is intuition really cooperative? Improved tests support the social heuristics hypothesis. PloS one. 13(1), e0190560
• HUMPHREY, S, LINDSAY, L and STARMER, C, 2017. Consumption experience, choice experience and the endowment effect Journal of the Economic Science Association. 3(2), 109-120
• ZAHRA MURAD, MARTIN SEFTON and CHRIS STARMER, 2016. How do Risk Attitudes Affect Measured Confidence? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 52, 21-46
• ROBIN P. CUBITT, DANIEL NAVARRO-MARTINEZ and CHRIS STARMER, 2015. On preference imprecision Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 50, 1-34
• SIMON GAECHTER, CHRIS STARMER and FABIO TUFANO, 2015. Measuring the Closeness of Relationships: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' Scale PLoS One. 10(6), e0129478
• ISOPI, A, NOSENZO, D and STARMER, C, 2014. Does consultation improve decision-making? Theory and Decision. 77(3), 377-388
• FERGUSON, E. and STARMER, C., 2013. Incentives, Expertise and Medical Decisions: Testing the Robustness of Natural Frequency Framing Health Psychology. 32, 967-977
• CUBITT, R., RUIZ-MARTOS, M. and STARMER, C., 2012. Are bygones bygones? Theory and Decision. 73(2), 185-202
• NICHOLAS BARDSLEY, ROBIN CUBITT, PETER MOFFATT, GRAHAM LOOMES, CHRIS STARMER and ROBERT SUGDEN, 2011. A response to Binmore, Harrison and Ross on Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules Journal of Economic Methodology. 18(2), 195-199
• LOOMES, G., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets Journal of Economic Psychology. VOL 31(NUMBER 3), 374-387
• BARDSLEY, N., CUBITT, R., LOOMES, G. MOFFATT, P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• BARDSLEY, N., MEHTA, J., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Explaining focal points: cognitive hierarchy theory versus team reasoning Economic Journal. 120(543), 40-79
• GÄCHTER, S., ORZEN, H., RENNER, E. and STARMER, C., 2009. Are experimental economists prone to framing effects?: a natural field experiment Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 70(3), 443-446
• BRAGA, J., HUMPHREY, S. J. and STARMER, C., 2009. Market experience eliminates some anomalies--and creates new ones European Economic Review. 53(4), 401-416
• SCHMIDT, U., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2008. Third-generation prospect theory Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 36(3), 203-223
• BATEMAN, I, DENT, S., PETERS, E., SLOVIC, P. and STARMER, C., 2007. The affect heuristic and the attractiveness of simple gambles Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 20(4), 365-380 (In Press.)
• BATEMAN, I., KAHNEMAN, D., MUNRO, A., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2005. Testing competing models of loss aversion: an adversarial collaboration Journal of Public Economics. 89(8), 1561-1580
• BRAGA, J. and STARMER, C., 2005. Preference Anomalies, Preference Elicitation and the Discovered Preference Hypothesis Environmental and Resource Economics. VOL 32(NUMBER 1), 55-89
• CHRIS STARMER, 2005. Normative notions in descriptive dialogues Journal of Economic Methodology. 12(2), 227-89
• CUBITT, R.P., MUNRO, A. and STARMER, C., 2004. Testing explanations of preference reversal Economic Journal. 114(497), 709-726
• LOOMES, G., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2003. Do anomalies disappear in repeated markets? Economic Journal. 113(486), C153-C166
• CUBITT, R.P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2001. Discovered preferences and the experimental evidence of violations of expected utility theory Journal of Economic Methodology. 8(3), 385-414
• STARMER, C., 2000. Developments in Non-Expected Utility Theory: The Hunt for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk Journal of Economic Literature. VOL 38(PART 2), 332-382
• BATEMAN, I. J., LANGFORD, I. H., MUNRO, A., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2000. Estimating Four Hicksian Welfare Measures for a Public Good: A Contingent Valuation Investigation Land Economics. VOL 76(PART 3), 355-373
• STARMER, C., 1999. Cycling with Rules of Thumb: An Experimental Test for a New Form of Non-transitive Behavior Theory and Decision. VOL 46(NUMBER 2), 141-158
• STARMER, C., 1999. Experimental Economics: Hard Science or Wasteful Tinkering? Economic Journal. ISSUE 453, F5-F15
• STARMER, C., 1999. Experiments in Economics: Should we trust the dismal scientists? Journal of Economic Methodology. 6, 1-30
• CUBITT, R. P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1998. Dynamic Choice and the Common Ratio Effect: An Experimental Investigation Economic Journal. 108, 1362-1380
• STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1998. Testing Alternative Explanations of Cyclical Choices Economica. VOL 65(ISSUE 259), 347-362
• CUBITT, R. P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1998. On the Validity of the Random Lottery Incentive System Experimental Economics. VOL 1(NUMBER 2), 115-132
• TANGA MCDANIEL and CHRIS STARMER, 1998. Experimental economics and deception: A comment Journal of Economic Psychology. 19(3), 403-409
• BATEMAN, I., MUNRO, A., RHODES, B., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1997. A Test of the Theory of Reference-Dependent Preferences The Quarterly Journal of Economics. VOL 112(NUMBER 2), 479-506
• BATEMAN, I., MUNROE, A., RHODES, B., STARMER, C. and SUDGEN, R., 1997. Does Part-whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation Economic Journal. ISSUE 441, 322-332
• STARMER, C., 1996. Explaining risky choices without assuming preferences Social Choice and Welfare. VOL 13(NUMBER 2), 201-214
• MEHTA, J., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1994. The Nature of Salience: An Experimental Investigation of Pure Coordination Games American Economic Review. VOL 84(NUMBER 3), 658-74
• MEHTA, J., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1994. Focal Points in Pure Coordination Games: An Experimental Investigation Theory and Decision. VOL 36(NUMBER 2), 163-85
• STARMER, C., 1993. The psychology of uncertainty in economic theory: a critical appraisal and a fresh approach Review of Political Economy. VOL 5(NUMBER 2), 181-96
• STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1993. Testing for Juxtaposition and Event-Splitting Effects Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. VOL 6(NUMBER 3), 235-54
• LOOMES, G., STARMER, C and SUGDEN, R., 1992. Are Preferences Montonic: Testing some implications of regret theory Economica. 59, 17-33 (In Press.)
• STARMER, C., 1992. Testing New Theories of Choice Under Uncertainty Using the Common Consequence Effect Review of Economic Studies. 59, 813-30
• CHRIS STARMER, ROBERT SUGDEN and GRAHAM LOOMES, 1991. Observing Violations of Transitivity By Experimental Methods Econometrica. 59, 425-39
• STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1991. Does the Random-Lottery Incentive System Elicit True Preferences? American Economic Review. 81, 971-79
• LOOMES, G and STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1989. Preference Reversal: Information Processing or Rational Non-Transitive Choice? Economic Journal. 140-51
• STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1989. Probability and Juxtaposition Effects: An Experimental Investigation of The Common Ratio Effect Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 2, 159-78
• STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1989. Violations of the Independence Axiom in Common Ratio Problems: An Experimental Test of some Competing Hypotheses Annals of Operations Research. 19, 79-102