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Prof John McClure

MA	Auckland
DPhil	Oxford

Deputy Head of School/Professor

Course Coordinator

Areas of Interest

Social psychology, judgment and decision-making, causal reasoning.

I’m especially interested in social judgment; for example, causal attributions (folk psychology); biases such as unrealistic optimism; and risk judgments, and the way these judgments affect helplessness and fatalism. Some current projects are examining:

How do people weigh up the costs and benefits of different risks and related actions? How does a bias like unrealistic optimism affect risk-taking?
How do we explain other people’s intentional actions (folk psychology)?
Why people misunderstand the actions of individuals with invisible conditions such as brain injury.
Factors affecting student motivation.

Selected Publications

McClure, J., Sutton, R M., & Sibley, C. (2007). Listening to reporters or engineers: How different messages about building design affect earthquake fatalism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 1956-1973.

McClure, J., Hilton, D. J., & Sutton, R. M. (2007). Judgments of voluntary and physical causes in causal chains: Probabilistic and social functionalist criteria for attributions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 879-901.

McClure, J., Devlin, M. E., McDowall, J., & Wade, K. (2006). Visible markers of brain injury influence attributions for adolescents’ behaviour. Brain Injury, 10, 1029-1035.

Boonzaier, A., McClure. J., & Sutton, R. M. (2005). Distinguishing the effect of beliefs and preconditions. The folk psychology of goals and actions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 725-740.

Harrington, L., Siegert, R. J., & McClure, J. (2005). Theory of mind in schizophrenia; A critical review. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 10, 249-286.

Sutton, R., & McClure, J. (2001). Covariational influences on goal-based explanation: An integrative model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 222-236.