Prof Mandeep Dhami

Research Interests

Theoretical foundations: Decision science. EG. human judgment and decision-making, risk perception and risk taking, and understanding and communicating uncertainty.

Applied domains: Criminal justice system, defence and national security. EG. crime, imprisonment, victim-offender mediation, court decision-making, forensic science, intelligence analysis.

Methodology: Primarily quantitative (experimental and survey), but also some qualitative (interviews and observations).

My research focuses on human judgment and decision-making, risk perception and risk taking, and understanding and communicating uncertainty. I have examined these issues extensively in the criminal justice sector, and more recently in the defence and security sectors. For instance, I have found that court judges make bail decisions using heuristic strategies that fall outside the law. I have shown that youth crime is motivated by the benefits that young people perceive they will gain, and that youth are not deterred by the drawbacks. I have also demonstrated that existing policies for communicating uncertainty in intelligence analysis are ineffective.

I would be willing to supervise PhD students who are interested in any of these topics.

Publications by Topic (e-mail me for a copy if you can't get them via your library or on-line)

Books

Dhami, M. K., Schlottmann, A., & Waldmann, M. (2011). (Eds.). Judgment and decision making as a skill: Learning, development, and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6478746/?site_locale=en_GB

Articles and Chapters on Decision Psychology

Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., Mellers, B., & Tetlock, P. (in press). Improving intelligence analysis with decision science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Ho, E., Budescu, D., Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (in press). On the effective communication of uncertainty: Lessons from the climate change and intelligence analysis domains. Behavioral Science & Policy.

Lundrigan, S., Dhami, M. K., & Mueller-Johnson, K. (in press). Predicting verdicts using pre-trial attitudes and standard of proof. Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Banks, A., & Dhami, M. K. (2015). Psychological perspectives on military decisions to deploy precision strike capabilities. In T. Dyson et al. (Eds.), Precision-strike warfare and international intervention (pp. 173-187). Routledge.

Dhami, M. K. (2015). Racial disparities, judge characteristics, and standards of review in sentencing. Commentary. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 171, 48-52.

Dhami, M. K., Belton, I., & Goodman-Delahunty, J. (2015). Quasi-rational models of sentencing. Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, 4, 239-247.

Dhami, M. K., & Careless, K. E. (2015). Ordinal structure of the generic analytic workflow:A survey of intelligence analysts. EISIC.

Dhami, M. K., & Belton, I. (2015). Using court records for sentencing research: Pitfalls and possibilities. In J. Roberts (Ed.), Exploring sentencing in England and Wales (pp. 18-34). Palgrave Macmillan.

Dhami, M. K., Lundrigan, S., & Mueller-Johnson, K. (2015). Instructions on reasonable doubt: Defining the standard of proof and the juror's task. Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 21, 169-178.

Belton, I., Thomson, M., & Dhami, M. K. (2014). Lawyer and non-lawyer susceptibility to framing effects in out-of-court civil litigation settlement. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 11, 578-600.

Banks, A., & Dhami, M. K. (2014). Normative and descriptive models of military decisions to deploy precision strike capabilities. Military Psychology, 26, 33-43.

Garcia-Retamero, R., Galesic, M., & Dhami, M. K. (2013). Reducing denominator neglect. In Garcia-Retamero, R., & M. Galesic (Eds.), Transparent communication of risks about health: Overcoming cultural differences (pp. 145-164). New York: Springer.

Dhami, M. K. (2013). A 'decision science' perspective on the old and new sentencing guidelines in England and Wales. In A. Ashworth & J. V. Roberts (Eds.), Structured sentencing in England and Wales: From guidance to guidelines (pp. 165-181). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2013). How do defendants choose their trial court? Evidence for a heuristic processing account. Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 552-560.

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Dhami, M. K. (2013). On avoiding framing effects in experienced decision makers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 829-842.

Dhami, M. K. (2013). Sentencing guidelines in England and Wales: Missed opportunities? Law and Contemporary Problems, 76, 287-305.

Dhami, M. K., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2012). Spanish young adults' perceptions of the costs and benefits of risky driving. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 15, 638-647.

Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2012). Crime as risk taking. Psychology, Crime and Law, 18, 389-403.

Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2012). Forecasted risk taking in youth: Evidence for a bounded-rationality perspective. Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0110-2

Dhami, M. K., & Thomson, M. (2012). On the relevance of cognitive continuum theory for understanding management judgment and decision making. European Management Journal, 30, 316-326.

Dhami, M. K. (2011). Representative design: A challenge for scientific psychology. In K. O. Moore, & N. P. Gonzalez (Eds.), Handbook on psychology of decision-making. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2011). Canadian and Spanish youths' risk perceptions of drinking and driving and riding with a drunk driver. International Journal of Psychology, 46, 81-90.

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Dhami, M. K. (2011). Pictures speak louder than numbers: On communicating medical risks to immigrants with non-native language proficiency. Health Expectations, 14, (suppl. 1.), 46-57.

Snook, B., Dhami, M. K., & Kavanagh, J. (2011). Simply criminal: Predicting burglars' occupancy decisions with a simple heuristic. Law and Human Behavior, 35, 316-326.

Kamleitner, B., Mandel, D. R, & Dhami, M. K. (2011). Risky discounts: Do people prefer per item or per purchase discounts? Journal of Economic Psychology. 32, 951-961.

Dhami, M. K. (2010). Lay magistrates' interpretations of "substantial grounds" for denying bail. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 49, 349-360.

Dhami, M. K., & Harries, C. (2010). Information search in heuristic decision making. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 571-586.

Merrall, E. L. C., Dhami, M. K., & Bird, S. M. (2010). Exploring methods to investigate sentencing decisions. Evaluation Review. 34, 185-219.

Mueller-Johnson, K., & Dhami, M. K. (2010). Effects of offenders' age and health on sentencing decisions. Journal of Social Psychology, 150, 77-97.

Dhami, M. K., & Souza, K. A. (2009). Sentencing and its outcomes project: Part one pilot study report. Ministry of Justice Research Series 2/09, London, UK.

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Dhami, M. K. (2009). Differences between experts and novices in cue estimation in crime. Psicothema, 21, 376-381.

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Dhami, M. K. (2009). Take-the-best in expert-novice decision strategies for residential burglary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 163-169.

[Reprinted in G. Gigerenzer, R., Hertwig, & T. Pachur (Eds.), (2011). Heuristics: The foundations of adaptive Behaviour (pp. 602-609). New York: Oxford University Press.]

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Dhami, M. K. (2009). Policías, ladrones y genete corriente: Diferencias entre expertos y noveles en el uso de estrategias para la toma de decisiones. Ciencia Cognitiva: Revista Electónrica de Divulgación, 3, 42-45.

Dhami, M. K. (2008). On measuring quantitative interpretations of reasonable doubt. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14, 353-363.

Dhami, M. K. (2008). Bail setting decisions. In B. Cutler (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of psychology and law (pp. 37-39).Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dhami, M. K. (2008). Sentencing decisions. In B. Cutler (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of psychology and law (pp. 708-710).Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dhami, M. K., & Olsson, H. (2008). Evolution of the interpersonal conflict paradigm. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 547-569.

Kamleitner, B., Dhami, M. K. & Mandel, D. R. (2008), Gambling for a discount: Preferring discount per item to discount per purchase? In A. L. McGill & S. Shavitt (Eds.), Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 36. Duluth, MN: Association for Consumer Research

Dhami, M. K., Hastie, R., Koehler, J. J., & Wiener, R. L. (2007). Introduction to the special issue: Decision making and the law. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 453-454.

Dhami, M. K. (2006). Legal decision making: Psychological reality meets legal idealism. In B. Brooks, & M. Freeman (Eds.), Law and psychology (pp. 49-76). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., Loewenstein, G., & Ayton, P. (2006). Prisoners' positive illusions of their post-release success. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 631-647.

Piperides, C., Allen, R. J., Dhami, M. K., Flessner, A., Hastie, R., Koehler, J. J., Lempert, R., Schulz, J., & Wagner, G. (2006). Group report: What is the role of heuristics in litigation? In C. Engel & G. Gigerenzer (Eds.), Heuristics and the law. Dahlem Workshop Report 94 (pp. 343-377). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dhami, M. K. (2005). From discretion to disagreement: Explaining disparities in judges' pre-trial decisions. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 23, 367-386.

Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., & Souza, K. A. (2005). Escape from reality: Prisoners' counterfactual thinking about crime, justice and punishment. In: D. R. Mandel, D. J. Hilton, & P. Catellani (Eds.), The psychology of counterfactual thinking (pp. 165-182). London: Routledge.

Dhami, M. K. & Wallsten, T. S. (2005). Interpersonal comparison of subjective probabilities. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1057-1068.

Mandel, D. R. & Dhami, M. K. (2005). "What I did" versus "what I might have done": Effect of factual and counterfactual thinking on blame, guilt, and shame in prisoners. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41.627-635.

Dhami, M. K. (2004). Conditional bail decision making in the magistrates' court. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 27-46.

Dhami, M. K., Hertwig, R., & Hoffrage, U. (2004). The role of representative design in an ecological approach to cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 959-988.

Dhami, M. K. (2003). Psychological models of professional decision-making. Psychological Science, 14, 175-180.

[Reprinted in G. Gigerenzer, R., Hertwig, & T. Pachur (Eds.), (2011). Heuristics: The foundations of adaptive behavior (pp. 579-588). New York: Oxford University Press.]

Dhami, M. K. (2002). Do bail information schemes really affect bail decisions? The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 41, 245-262.

Karelitz, T. M., Dhami, M. K., Budescu, D. V., & Wallsten, T. S. (2002). Toward a universal translator of verbal probabilities. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 498-502.

Dhami, M. K., & Ayton, P. (2001). Bailing and jailing the fast and frugal way. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 14, 141-168.

Dhami, M. K. & Harries, C. (2001). Fast and frugal versus regression models of human judgment. Thinking & Reasoning, 7, 5-27.

Harries, C. & Dhami, M. K. (2000). On the descriptive validity and prescriptive utility of fast and frugal models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 753-754.

Articles and Chapters on Criminal Justice and Social Issues

Dhami, M. K. (in press). Apology in victim-offender mediation. Contemporary Justice Review.

Dhami, M. K. (in press). Effects of victims' response to apology in victim-offender mediation. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Li, S., Dhami, M. K., & Ho, T. (2015). Standards and best practices in digital and multimedia forensics. In S. Li, & A. T. S. Ho (Eds.), Handbook of digital forensics of multimedia and mobile devices (pp. 38-93).John Wiley & Sons.

Delahunty, J., Martschuk, N., & Dhami, M. K. (2014). Interviewing high value detainees: Securing cooperation and reliable disclosures. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 883-897.

Dhami, M. K. (2014). A scientific approach to countering the terrorist threat. In J. Cole & R. Pantucci (Eds.), Community tensions (pp. 9-17). STFC/RUSI Conference Series No. 3. London: RUSI and STFC.

Dhami, M. K. (2013). Prison work. In J. S. Albanese (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dhami, M. K, & Cruise, P. (2013). Prisoner disenfranchisement: Prisoner and public views of an invisible punishment. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 13, 211-227.

Goodman-Delahunty, J., & Dhami, M. K. (2013). A forensic analysis of court reports. Australian Psychologist, 48, 32-40.

Dhami, M. K. (2012). Should prisoners be allowed to vote? Criminal Justice Matters, 90 43-44.

Dhami, M. K. (2012). Auto-theft. In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of adolescence. NY: Springer-Verlag.

Dhami, M. K. (2012). White-collar crime. In A. Thio, T. C. Calhoun, & A. Conyers (Eds.), Deviance today. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.

Dhami, M. K. (2012). Offer and acceptance of apology in victim-offender mediation. Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 20, 45-60.

Dhami, M. K. (2011). Iraq. In G. R. Newman (Ed.), Crime and punishment around the world (pp. 272-283). Volume 1, Africa/Middle East. ABC-CLIO.

Dhami, M. K. (2011). Military social influence: Commentary on King. Analyses of Social Issues and Public PolicyDOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2011.01239.x

Goodman-Delahunty, J., & Dhami, M. K. (2011). Forensic scientific evidence: Pitfalls and safeguards. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Understanding Forensic Science in Criminal Justice (pp. 217-253 and Korean translation from pp. 191-216), Korean Institute of Criminology, Seoul, Korea.

Souza, K. S., & Dhami, M. K. (2010). First-time and recurrent inmates' experiences of imprisonment. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37, 1330-1342.

Barnes, G., Mitic, W., Leadbeater, B., & Dhami, M. K. (2009). Risk and protective factors for adolescent substance use and mental health symptoms. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 28, 1-15.

Dhami, M. K., Mantle, G., & Fox, D. (2009). Restorative justice in prisons. Contemporary Justice Review, 12, 433-448.

Dhami, M. K., & Souza, K. A. (2009). Breaking into court. In D. L. Streiner & S. Sidani (Eds.), When research goes off the rails: Why it happens and what can you do about it (pp. 81-87). New York: Guilford Press.

Dhami, M. K. (2008). Youth auto theft: A survey of a general population of Canadian youth. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 50, 187-209.

Souza, K. A., & Dhami, M. K. (2008). A study of volunteers in community-based restorative justice programs. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 50, 31-57.

Souza, K. K., & Dhami, M. K. (2008). Organizational aspects of restorative justice. Resolution, 29, 5.

Dhami, M. K. (2007). White-collar prisoners' perceptions of audience reaction: Findings from a small-scale interview study. Deviant Behavior, 28, 57-77.

Dhami, M. K., Ayton, P., & Loewenstein, G. (2007). Adaptation to imprisonment: Indigenous or imported? Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 1085-1100.

Dhami, M. K. & Joy, P. (2007). Challenges to establishing volunteer run community-based restorative justice programs. Contemporary Justice Review, 10, 9-22.

Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D., & Sothmann, K. (2007). An evaluation of post-adoption services. Children and Youth Services Review, 29, 162-179.

Souza, K. A., & Dhami, M. K. (2007). Restorative justice volunteers' perceptions of effective facilitators. British Journal of Community Justice, 5, 55-61.

Fox, D., Dhami, M. K., & Mantle, G. (2006). Restorative final warnings: Policy and practice. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 45, 129-140.

Dhami, M. K. (2005). Prisoner disenfranchisement policy: A threat to democracy? Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Special Issue: Psychological Perspectives on Threats to Democracy, 5, 253-247.

[Translated and re-published as Dhami, M. K. (2009). La política de privación del sufragio a los presos: ¿una amenaza pa ra la democracia? Revista de Derecho, 22, 121-135.]

Dhami, M. K., Hoglund, W., Leadbeater, B., & Boone, E. (2005). Gender-linked risks for peer physical and relational victimization in the context of school level poverty in first-grade. Social Development, 14, 532-549.

Jansson, M., Russell, T., Mitic, W., & Dhami, M. K. (2005). Ethical issues in a youth population health survey. In: B. Leadbeater, E. Banister, T. Riecken et al. (Eds.), Ethics in community-based research (pp. 59-69). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Mandel, D. R., & Dhami, M. K. (2005). Introduction to the special issue, Psychological perspectives on threats to democracy, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 5, 205-207.

Mantle, G., Fox, D., & Dhami, M. K. (2005). Restorative justice and three individual theories of crime. Internet Journal of Criminology, 1-36.

Leadbeater, B., Dhami, M. K., Hoglund, W., & Dickinson, E. (2004). Prediction and prevention of peer victimization in early elementary school: How does gender matter? In: M. M. Moretti, C. Odgers, & M. Jackson (Eds.), Girls and aggression: Contributing factors and intervention principles (pp. 181-194). New York: Kluwer Publishers.

Dhami, M. K. (1999). A psychologist on the bench. The Psychologist, 12, 328-329.

Dhami, M. K. (1995). Helping Asian deportees. Forensic Update, 40, 21.

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