Philip Newall

PhD Student, Behavioural Science Centre, University of Stirling 

 

 

Philip Newall is a second year PhD student at the University of Stirling’s Behavioural Science Centre, where his work focuses on improving financial decision making. Taking the broadest possible view of financial decision making, his work accepted for publication so far has investigated mutual fund choice and soccer gambling advertising. In both domains he finds that businesses may passively or actively adopt decision frames that impede rational decision making, suggesting that the “nudge” concept should be debated more broadly, with both benevolent and dark nudgers in the marketplace.

 

Prior to his PhD Philip was a professional poker player and is the author of two strategy guides: The Intelligent Poker Player (2011) and Further Limit Hold ‘em: Exploring the Model Poker Game (2013).