Current Positions/Roles
Professor in Decision Psychology, Middlesex University London
Governor, Middlesex University London
co-Editor, Judgment and Decision Making
President-elect, European Association for Decision Making
UK representative, NATO research panel SAS-114 'Anticipatory Intelligence for Superior Decision-Making'
Qualifications
PhD Psychology, City University, London, UK
MA Criminology, University of Leicester, UK
BSc First Class Honors Psychology, Brunel University, London, UK
Biography
In the past, I have held academic positions at the University of Surrey (UK), University of Cambridge (UK), University of Victoria (Canada), University of Maryland (USA), and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany). In addition, I have held visiting academic posts at the University of Granada (Spain), and the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security. I have also worked as a Principal Scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL, UK Ministry of Defence), and have work experience in two British prisons.
English, Punjabi
Research Interests:
I examine people’s judgment and decision-making strategies, the factors that influence their risk perceptions, and how they communicate probabilistic information. My research employs primarily quantitative methods (i.e., experiments, surveys and statistical modelling). I often work in applied domains such as criminal courts, and intelligence analysis. I also have a background in Criminology, and so I have published research on restorative justice (victim-offender mediation), and other socio-legal/political issues. I would be willing to supervise PhD students who are interested in any of the above topics.
Current and recent funded projects:
Co-Investigator, CHIST-era/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded project on "Judicial decision data gathering, encoding and sharing (JUDDGES)", 2023-2025.
Co-Investigator, British Academy of Managment funded project on "The effect of scenario planning on individuals’ perceptions of uncertain futures", 2020-2022.
Publications (e-mail me for a copy if you can't access them elsewhere)
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.
Goodman-Delahunty, J., Saunders, P., Tinsley, Y., & Dhami, M. K. (2012). Strengthening forensic science in Korea. Korean Institute of Criminology, Seoul, Korea.
Articles and Chapters (by topic)
Judgment and decision-making - general
Holleman, G., Dhami, M. K., Hooge, I. T. C., & Hessels, R. S. (In press). Representative design: A realistic alternative to (systematic) integrative design. Commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Derbyshire, J., Belton, I., Dhami, M. K., & Onkal, D. (2023). The value of experiments in futures and foresight science: A reply to commentary on Derbyshire et al. (2023). Futures & Foresight Science. e156. https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.156
Grossman, I., Rotella, A., Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S., & Dhami, M. K., et al. (2023). Insights into the accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1
Derbyshire, J., Belton, I., Dhami, M. K., & Onkal, D. (2022). The value of experiments in futures and foresight science as illustrated by the case of scenario planning. Futures & Foresight Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.146
Witt, J. K., & Dhami, M. K. (2022). Visual organization of icon arrays affects Bayesian reasoning and risk judgments. Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000044
Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2022). Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.002
Mandel, D. R., Dhami, M. K., Tran, S., & Irwin, D. (2021). Arithmetic computation with probability words and numbers. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34(4), 593-608. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2232
Dhami, M. K., & Mumpower, J. (2018). Kenneth R. Hammond’s contributions to the study of human judgment and decision making. Judgment and Decision Making, 13, 1-22.
Ward, E., & Dhami, M. K. (2016). Editorial: The aging decision-maker: Advances in understanding the impact of cognitive change on decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognition, 7, 1622. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01622
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. (2012). Representative design: Brunswik’s challenge for scientific psychology. In K. O. Moore, & N. P. Gonzalez (Eds.), Handbook on psychology of decision-making (pp. 249-261). Nova Science Publishers, Inc. http://www.novapublishers.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=22923
Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2012). Forecasted risk taking in youth: Evidence for a bounded-rationality perspective. Synthese, 189, 161-171. 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.
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.
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., & Harries, C. (2010). Information search in heuristic decision making. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 571-586.
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. & Wallsten, T. S. (2005). Interpersonal comparison of subjective probabilities. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1057-1068.
Dhami, M. K., Hertwig, R., & Hoffrage, U. (2004). The role of representative design in an ecological approach to cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 959-988.
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. & 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.
Decision-making in legal and criminal justice contexts
Belton, I. K., & Dhami, M. K. (in press). The role of character-based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Lundrigan, S., Weir, R., Newton, A. Agudelo, K., & Dhami, M. K. (2022). Patterns and predictors of stranger rape locations. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-022-09535-5
Dhami, M. K. & van den Brink, Y. A (2022). A multi-disciplinary and comparative approach to evaluating pre-trial detention decisions: Towards evidence-based reform. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 381-395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-022-09510-0
Dhami, M. K. (2021). Sentencing multiple- versus single-offence cases: Does more crime mean less punishment? British Journal of Criminology. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azab030
Dhami, M. K., Belton, I., Merrall, E. L. C., McGrath, A., & Bird, S. M. (2020). Criminal sentencing by preferred numbers. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 17(1), 139-163. https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12246
Dhami, M. K., Lundrigan, S., & Thomas, S. (2020). Police discretion in rape cases. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 35, 157-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-018-9299-4
Lundrigan, S., Dhami, M. K., & Agudelo, K. (2020). Factors predicting conviction in child stranger rape. Child Abuse & Neglect, 101, 104-242. DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104242
Lundrigan, S., Dhami, M. K., & Agudelo, K. (2019). Factors predicting jury convictions in stranger rape cases. Frontiers in Psychology, section Forensic and Legal Psychology, 10, Article 526, 1-12. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00526
Whitehouse, L., K., Bright, S., & Dhami, M. K. (2019). Improving procedural fairness in housing possession cases. Civil Justice Quarterly, 38, 351-375.
Lundrigan, S., Dhami, M. K., & Mueller-Johnson, K. (2018). A re-examination of the acquittal biasing effect of offence seriousness. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 25, 769-778.
Mueller-Johnson, K., Dhami, M. K., & Lundrigan, S. (2018). Effects of judicial instructions and juror characteristics on interpretations of beyond reasonable doubt. Psychology, Crime and Law, 24, 117-133. DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2017.1394461
Dhami, M. K. & Belton, I. K. (2017). On getting inside the judge’s mind. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3, 214-226. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000115
Dhami, M. K, & Belton, I. (2016). Statistical analyses of court decisions: An example of multilevel models of sentencing. Law and Method. DOI: 10.5553/REM/.000019.
Dhami, M. K., & Murray, J. (2016). Male youth perceptions of violent extremism: Towards a test of rational choice theory. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 19, E51, 1-10. DOI: 10.1017/sjp.2016.49
Lundrigan, S., Dhami, M. K., & Mueller-Johnson, K. (2016). Predicting verdicts using pre-trial attitudes and standard of proof. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 21, 95-110.
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. (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., 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., 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.
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. (2013). Sentencing guidelines in England and Wales: Missed opportunities? Law and Contemporary Problems, 76, 287-305. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4355&context=lcp
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., & 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., & 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.
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.
Dhami, M. K. (2010). Lay magistrates’ interpretations of “substantial grounds” for denying bail. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 49, 349-360.
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). 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.
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.]
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). On measuring quantitative interpretations of reasonable doubt. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14, 353-363.
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., 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.
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. (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.
Dhami, M. K., & Ayton, P. (2001). Bailing and jailing the fast and frugal way. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 14, 141-168.
Decision-making in defence and security contexts
Dhami, M. K., Wicke, L., & Onkal, D. A (2022). Scenario generation and scenario quality using the cone of plausibility. Futures, 142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102995
Mandel, D. R., Dhami, M. K., Budescu, D. V. (2022). Meta-informational cue inconsistency and judgment of information accuracy: Spotlight on intelligence analysis. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2307
Wicke, L., Dhami, M. K., Onkal, D., & Belton, I. (2022). Using scenarios to forecast outcomes of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. International Journal of Forecasting, 38(3), 1175-1184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.05.017
Belton, K., & Dhami, M. K. (2021). Cognitive biases and debiasing relevant to intelligence analysis. In R. Viale (Ed.), Handbook on Bounded Rationality. Chapter 37. Routledge.
Dhami, M. K. & Careless, K. E. (2021). Development and validation of the ‘analysis support guide.’ International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. 10.1080/08850607.2021.1966589
Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2021). Words or numbers? Communicating probability in intelligence analysis. American Psychologist, 76(3), 549-560. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3550
Dhami, M. K. & Careless, K. (2019). A survey of intelligence analysts’ strategies for solving analytic tasks. Military Psychology, 31, 117-127.
Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., & Belton, I. (2019). The ‘Analysis of Competing Hypotheses’ in intelligence analysis. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 1080-1090. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3550
Dhami, M. K. (2018). Towards an evidence-based approach to communicating uncertainty in intelligence analysis. Intelligence and National Security, 33, 257-272.
Mandel, D. R., Karvetski, C. W., & Dhami, M. K. (2018). Boosting intelligence analysts’ judgment accuracy: What works, what fails? Judgment and Decision Making, 607-621.
Dhami, M. K., Belton, I., & Careless, K. (2016). Critical review of analytic techniques. 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, 152-155. DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2016.33
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., & Careless, K. E. (2015). Intelligence analysis: Does collaborative analysis outperform the individual analyst? The Journal of Intelligence and Analysis, 22(3), 43-58.
Dhami, M. K., & Careless, K. E. (2015). Ordinal structure of the generic analytic workflow: a survey of intelligence analysts. 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, 141-144. DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2015.37
Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., Mellers, B., & Tetlock, P. (2015). Improving intelligence analysis with decision science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 753-757.
Ho, E. H., Budescu, D. V., Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2015). Improving the communication of uncertainty in climate science and intelligence analysis. Behavioral Science & Policy, 1, 43-55.
Banks, A., & Dhami, M. K. (2014). Normative and descriptive models of military decisions to deploy precision strike capabilities. Military Psychology, 26, 33-43.
Restorative justice (victim-offender mediation)
Dhami, M. K. (2017). An empirical note on perceptions of partial apologies. Onati Socio-Legal Series, 7 408-420.
Dhami, M. K. (2016). Apology in victim-offender mediation. Contemporary Justice Review, 19, 31-42. DOI: 10.1080/10282580.2015.1101686
Dhami, M. K. (2016). Effects of victims’ response to apology in victim-offender mediation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 110-123. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2145
Dhami, M. K. (2012). Offer and acceptance of apology in victim-offender mediation. Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 20, 45-60.
Dhami, M. K., Mantle, G., & Fox, D. (2009). Restorative justice in prisons. Contemporary Justice Review, 12, 433-448.
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. & Joy, P. (2007). Challenges to establishing volunteer run community-based restorative justice programs. Contemporary Justice Review, 10, 9-22.
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.
Mantle, G., Fox, D., & Dhami, M. K. (2005). Restorative justice and three individual theories of crime. Internet Journal of Criminology, 1-36.
Social, legal and political issues
Cockerton, T., Zhu, Y., & Dhami, M. K. (in press). On conducting ethically-sound psychological science in the Metaverse. American Psychologist.
Murray, J., Dhami, M. K., McClatchey, K., Weiss-Cohen, L., & Ayton, P. (2022). Health, wellbeing, and social interaction: An international and demographic analysis of perceived life changes and the positives and negatives of the COVID-19 lockdown. Europe’s Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.5964/ejop.7751
Dhami, M. K., Weiss-Cohen, L., & Ayton, P. (2020). Are people experiencing the ‘pains of imprisonment’ during lockdown? Frontiers in Psychology, section Personality and Social Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.578430
Dhami, M. K., Goodman-Delahunty, J., Martscshuk, N., Cheung, S., & Belton, I. (2020). Disengaging and rehabilitating high-value detainees: A small-scale qualitative study. Journal of Deradicalization, 22.
Bilgic, A., Dhami, M. K., & Onkal, D. (2018). Towards a pedagogy for critical security studies: Politics of migration in the classroom. International Studies Perspectives, 19, 250-266.
Dhami, M. K. (2017). A survey of intelligence analysts’ perceptions of analytic tools. 2017 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, 131-134. DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2017.26
Dhami, M. K., Goodman-Delahunty, J., & Desai, S. (2017). Development of an information sheet providing rapport advice for interpreters in police interviews. Police Practice and Research, 18, 291-305. DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2017.1291580
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.
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.
Goodman-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. (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). Auto-theft. In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of adolescence. NY: Springer-Verlag.
Dhami, M. K. (2012). Disenfranchisement is a form of ‘civil death’ that has social costs. Criminal Justice Matters, 90, 44.
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. (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 Policy DOI: 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., & 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.
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., Mandel, D., & Sothmann, K. (2007). An evaluation of post-adoption services. Children and Youth Services Review, 29, 162-179.
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.
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.
Research Funding
Approx. £2.5 million obtained in research funds to-date from various research councils and government bodies, including the UK Ministry of Justice, UK Ministry of Defence, UK Government, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Leverhulme Trust, British Academy (BA), British Academy of Managment (BAM), British Council, European Science Foundation (ESF), Engineering and Physcial Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI/UTEP), US Office for Naval Research.
Editorial Work
Co-editor, Judgment and Decision Making, 2020-present
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology (Cognition), 2022-present
Associate Editor, Mind & Society, 2023-present
Guest Co-Editor (with Dr. Emma Ward), Special Issue on The Aging Decision-Maker: Advances in understanding the impact of cognitive change on decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognition, 2016
Guest Co-Editor (with Prof. Jeremy Wolfe et al.), Special Issue on Policy Insights from Cognitive Psychology for Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015
Guest Lead-Editor (with Profs. R. Hastie, J. J. Koehler and R. L. Wiener), Special Issue on Decision Making and the Law for Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2007
Guest Co-Editor (with Dr. David R. Mandel), Special Issue on Psychological Perspectives on Threats to Democracy for Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2005
Editorial Board, Journal of Information Security and Applications (formerly Information Security Technical Report, 2012
Editorial Board, International Journal of Psychology, 2010-2014
Editorial Board, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2010-2014
Editorial Board, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2010-2016
Editorial Board, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017-
Editorial Board, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2009-
Editorial Board, Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-2020 (see above)
Editorial Board, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2001-2006
Keynote/Opening/Plenary Presentations (plus over 100 other invited presentations worldwide)
Invited Keynote (May 2023). An evidence-based approach to improving intelligence analysis. Leadership Assessment Conference organised by the NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre (NIFC), Zagreb, Croatia.
Invited Keynote, (Mar 2019). Crime and rationality. Paper presented at the Psychology Undergraduate Conference, Kingston University, London, UK.
Invited Keynote, (Oct 2016). Are offenders rational? Paper presented at the East Asian Association of Psychology and Law, Jeju Island, South Korea.
Invited Keynote, (Sept 2016). Decision science can help improve policy and practice decisions. Paper presented at the International conference: Judgment and Decision Making in Social Work. Mainz, Germany.
Invited Keynote, (July 2016). Applying an evidence-based approach to policy and practice decision-making. Paper presented at the Conference on Decisions, Assessment, Risk and Evidence in Social Work. Templepatrick, Northern Ireland.
Invited Keynote, (May 2014). Justice or just decisions? Improving sentencing using guidelines. Paper presented at the UCSIA Workshop on How Objective Can Judges Be? Antwerp, Belgium.
Invited Opening Speech, (Sept 2012). The ‘decision science’ of intelligence analysis. Paper presented at the 2nd Workshop of the RECOBIA Project. Brussels, Belgium.
Invited Discussant for Plenary, (Mar 2011). ANZAPPL Presidential Plenary – A hypothetical: Sexual harassment in Sydney: What price? American Psychology-Law Society 4th International Congress on Psychology and Law. Miami, FL, USA.
Advice and Consultancy
I’ve provided advice and consultancy to national and international government bodies including the UK Parliament's Knowledge Exchange Unit, UK Home Office, UK Ministry of Justice, UK Ministry of Defence, Sentencing Council for England and Wales, Judicial Studies Board (Northern Ireland), London Metropolitan Police, Federal Bureau of Investigations (USA), National Security Agency’s Laboratory for Analytic Science (USA), NATO, as well as other organisations such as the Korean Institute for Criminology, Restorative Justice – Victoria (in Canada), and Southwark Mediation Services.
Affiliations (Past and Present)
Fellow, Psychonomics Society, 2019-
Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (American Psychological Association Division 9), member since 2001and awarded fellowship in 2007
Member, American Psychology and Law Society (American Psychological Association, Division 41), 2006-
Member, American Society of Criminology, 2006
Member, Association for Psychological Science (formerly American Psychological Society), 2004-2015
Associate Member, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2000-
Member, British Psychological Society, 1992-2001
Member, Brunswik Society, 1997-
Member, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, Kings College, UK (formerly ISTD), 1998-2001
Member, Centre for Youth & Society, University of Victoria, 2001-2004
Member, European Association for Decision Making, 1997-
Member, European Association for Psychology and Law, 2005-2014
Member, European Society of Criminology, 2009
Full Associate Member, International Association of Investigative Psychology, 2009-2012
Member, Law and Society, 2016-
Member, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 1997-
Academic Awards, Honours and Scholarships/Fellowships
Winner, NATO Science & Technology Organisation SAS Panel Excellence Award, 2020
Fellow, Psychonomics Society, 2019
1st Prize, Best Publication of the Year, University of Granada, Spain, 2012
Invited Research Fellow, Australian Graduate School of Policing, Charles Sturt University, Australia, 2011-2014 (declined)
Visiting Academic, Australian Graduate School of Policing, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia, April-May 2011
Honorary Lecturer, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK, 2011-2014
Research Scholarship, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Ministry of Defence, UK, 2011-2013 (declined)
Visiting Academic, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Spain, Feb-Mar, 2009
Honourable Mention, Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award, European Association for Decision Making, 2009
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, City University, London, UK, 2008-2011
Visiting Research Fellow (and Academic), Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, London South Bank University, 2008-2013
Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Division 9 of American Psychological Association, 2007
Research Fellowship, City University, London, UK, 2002-2004
First Prize, SPSSI Social Issues Dissertation Award, Division 9 of American Psychological Association, 2001-2002
Jane Beattie Scholarship, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2000
Winner, De Finetti PhD Student Prize, European Association for Decision Making, 1999
Winner, Student Poster Prize, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 1998
Winner, Hammond-Brunswik New Investigator of the Year Award, Brunswik Society, 1998
Postgraduate Bursary, British Psychological Society, Cognitive Psychology Section, 1997
Postgraduate Scholarship, Department of Psychology, City University, London, UK, 1996-2000
Scholarship, Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 1995-1996
Winner, University Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Brunel University, London, UK, 1995
Winner, Student Research Prize, Department of Psychology, Brunel University, London, UK, 1993
