Research FAQs

What is Dr Paul Williams' area of research expertise? . . .

Dr Paul Williams' primary field of research is cognitive psychology. His doctoral research explored how success and failure affects future performance, and how mental health interacts with these phenomena. Currently he researches how emotions and prior expectations affect the way people process information and make decisions. He is also collaborating on research exploring the measurement of errors at neurophysiological levels, and how these translate to observable behaviour.

What unique skill sets does Dr Williams have?. . .

Dr Paul Williams won the University Medal as an undergraduate and has subsequently received several awards and grants. He is a natural critical thinker who can identify the methodological, statistical, and pedagogical strengths and weaknesses of research. He is also a skilled data analyst and statistician, and is especially proficient analysing sequential data.

What academic research has Dr Williams done? . . .

A full list of Dr Paul Williams' research articles can be found here. A selection of his favourites are listed below.

Williams, P., K, Damaso, A. Heathcote (2018). Different types of errors and post-error changes. Submitted to Psychonomic Bulleting and Review

Williams, P. , Z, Howard, Eidels, A. (2018). Cognitive dysfunction under emotional exposure: When participants with depression symptoms show no cognitive control. Australian Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajpy.12205.

Williams, P., Heathcote, A., Nesbitt, K., Eidels, A. (2016) Post-error recklessness and the hot hand. Judgement and Decision Making 11(2)

Ben-Haim, M., Williams, P., Howard, Z., Yaniv Mama, Y., Ami Eidels, A., Algom., D (2016) The emotional Stroop task: Assessing cognitive impairment under exposure to emotional content. Journal of Visual Experimentation. 112(1). doi: 10.3791/53720

Williams, P., Eidels, A., & Townsend, J. T. (2014) The resurrection of Tweedledum and Tweedledee: Bimodality cannot distinguish serial and parallel processes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21(5). doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0599-0.

Eidels, A., Ryan, K., Williams, P., & Algom, D. (2014) Depth of processing in the Stroop task: Evidence from a novel forced-reading condition. Experimental Psychology. 61(5). doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000259

Williams, P., Nesbitt, K., Eidels, A., Washburn., M, Cornforth., D. (2013). Evaluating Player Strategies in the Design of a Hot Hand Game. International Journal on Computing, 3(2). doi: 10.7603/s40601-013-0006-0

Collaborations? . . .

Dr Paul Williams is a Conjoint Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He has collaborations underway with researchers from the University of Tasmania and organisations in the private sector. Opportunities for further collaborations are always welcome.