Chapter 1 Cancer
Chapter 2 Changing bodies
Chapter 3 Living in the natural world
Chapter 4 Living in the virtual world
Chapter 5 Getting to the heart of things
Chapter 6 Changing Behaviour
Chapter 7 Working Together
Neil Stewart is a professor in the Psychology Department at Warwick University.
His particular research interests are in perception, mathematical psychology, and judgment and decision making.
He is co-author with Professor Gordon Brown and Alex Wood of Cognitive science and behavioural economics — showing us keys to happiness, their contribution to The New Optimists.
The good news is that changing one’s behaviour can have great impact on our sense of well-being and general health, so says Warwick’s Professor Gordon Brown whose work is at the interface of economics and cognitive psychology.
Professor Brown, along with Neil Stewart and Alex Wood argue in The New Optimists that the focus will shift from mastery of the environment to mastery of our cognition. Money typically explains only 1-2% of individual differences in happiness. Thus improving national happiness may well be better achieved by a greater emphasis on preventing unemployment rather than increasing everyone’s income.
Professor Brown’s research interests in the computational and mathematical modelling of human timing and memory; categorisation, identification, and word recognition; and the interface between economic psychology, cognitive science, and psychophysics