I am a professor of behavioural science and director of research and enterprise for Kingston Business School. I joined Kingston Business School as a professor of behavioural science in January 2016.
After studying at Paris Nanterre University (1998, MSc Social Psychology) and the University of Hertfordshire (2004, PhD), I began my career as a lecturer in Decision Sciences at Leeds University Business School (2001-2004). I then worked as a lecturer in Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Toulouse (2004-2009) before joining the Psychology Department at Kingston University in 2009.
Professor of Behavioural Science and School Director of Research and Enterprise
My research contributes to the psychology of decision-making, risk and uncertainty, and thinking. My work focuses on how individuals communicate and interpret uncertainty, draw conclusions based on uncertain information, and how judgments, decisions, choices, problem-solving and innovation are shaped by individuals' motivations, mode of thinking (intuitive or deliberative) and the way information is distributed in their environment. Currently, I am working on a 2-year research project funded by the Wellcome Trust examining how expert reviewers make judgments about research proposals.
Hallpike, Helen, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Van der Heijden, Beatrice (2023) Distributed interactive decision-making for sustainable careers : how do executives interact with their career context when making decisions to sustain their careers? German Journal of Human Resource Management, ISSN (print) 0179-6437 (In Press)
Hallpike, Helen, Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle and Van der Heijden, Beatrice (2022) A distributed interactive decision-making framework for sustainable career development. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, p. 790533. ISSN (online) 1664-1078
Moon, Karis, Riege, Anine, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle (2022) Development and validation of the treatmentself-regulation questionnaire assessing healthcare professionals' motivation for flu vaccination (TSRQ-Flu). Psychology & Health, 37(3), pp. 259-278. ISSN (print) 0887-0446
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Wheelock, Ana, Vandrevala, Tushna and Harries, Priscilla (2022) Peer reviewer’s dilemmas : a qualitative exploration of decisional conflict in the evaluation of grant applications in the medical humanities and social sciences. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, p. 70. ISSN (online) 2662-9992
Riege, Anine, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaëlle (2021) Covert eye-tracking : an innovative method to investigate compliance with instructions. Psychological Research, 85, pp. 3084-3093. ISSN (print) 0340-0727
Moon, Karis, Riege, Anine, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaëlle (2021) The moderating effect of autonomy on promotional health messages encouraging healthcare professionals to get the influenza vaccine. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(2), pp. 187-200. ISSN (print) 1076-898X
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle (2020) Mapping systemic resources in problem solving. New Ideas in Psychology, 59, p. 100812. ISSN (print) 0732-118X
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Ross, Wendy, Ruffatto Rech, Renata and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle (2020) Insight as discovery. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, ISSN (print) 2044-5911 (Epub Ahead of Print)
Henok, Niyat, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2020) Incubation and interactivity in insight problem solving. Psychological Research, 84(1), pp. 128-139. ISSN (print) 0340-0727
Kassianos, George, Kuchar, Ernest, Nitsch-Osuch, Aneta, Kyncl, Jan, Galev, Andrey, Humolli, Isme, Falup-Pecurariu, Oana, Thomson, Angus, Klein, Christina and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2018) Motors of influenza vaccination uptake and vaccination advocacy in healthcare workers : a comparative study in six European countries. Vaccine, 36(44), pp. 6546-6552. ISSN (online) 0264-410X
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Promberger, Marianne, Moon, Karis, Wheelock, Ana, Sirota, Miroslav, Norton, Christine and Sevdalis, Nick (2018) Motors of influenza vaccination uptake and vaccination advocacy in healthcare workers : development and validation of two short scales. Vaccine, 36(44), pp. 6540-6545. ISSN (print) 0264-410X
Thomson, Angus, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Suggs, L. Suzanne (2018) Strategies to increase vaccine acceptance and uptake : from behavioral insights to context-specific, culturally-appropriate, evidence-based communications and interventions. Vaccine, 36(44), pp. 6457-6458. ISSN (print) 0264-410X
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Sirota, Miroslav and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2016) Interactivity mitigates the impact of working memory depletion on mental arithmetic performance. Cognitive Research : Principles and Implications, 1, ISSN (online) 2365-7464
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2016) Why the best problem-solvers think with their hands, as well as their heads. The Conversation,
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Steffensen, Sune Vork, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Sirota, Miroslav (2016) Insight with hands and things. Acta Psychologica, 170, pp. 195-205. ISSN (print) 0001-6918
Thomson, Angus, Robinson, Karis and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2016) The 5As: A practical taxonomy for the determinants of vaccine uptake. Vaccine, 34(8), pp. 1018-1024. ISSN (print) 0264-410X
Steffensen, Sune, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2016) Cognitive events in a problem solving task : qualitative methods for investigating interactivity in the 17 animals problem. Journal Of Cognitive Psychology, 28(1), pp. 79-105. ISSN (print) 2044-5911
Sirota, Miroslav, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Juanchich, Marie (2015) On Bayesian problem-solving : helping Bayesians solve simple Bayesian word problems. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, p. 1141. ISSN (online) 1664-1078
Guthrie, Lisa, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Howard, Chelsea (2015) Learning and interactivity in solving a transformation problem. Memory & Cognition, 43(5), pp. 723-735. ISSN (print) 0090-502X
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2015) Interactivity fosters Bayesian reasoning without instruction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), pp. 581-603. ISSN (print) 0096-3445
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Sirota, Miroslav, Juanchich, Marie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2015) Beyond getting the numbers right : what does it mean to be a "successful" Bayesian reasoner? Frontiers in Psychology, 6(712), ISSN (online) 1664-1078
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2014) The spatio-temporal dynamics of systemic thinking. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 21(1-2), pp. 113-127. ISSN (print) 0907-0877
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2014) Diagrams, jars, and matchsticks : a systemicist's toolkit. Pragmatics and Cognition, 22(2), pp. 187-205. ISSN (print) 0929-0907
Abadie, Marlene, Villejoubert, Gaelle, Waroquier, Laurent and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2013) The interplay between presentation material and decision mode for complex choice preferences. Journal Of Cognitive Psychology, 25(6), pp. 682-691. ISSN (print) 2044-5911
Juanchich, Marie, Sirota, Miroslav, Karelitz, Tzur M. and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2013) Can membership-functions capture the directionality of verbal probabilities? Thinking & Reasoning, 19(2), pp. 231-247. ISSN (print) 1354-6783
Alison, Laurence, Almond, Louise, Christiansen, Paul, Waring, Sara, Power, Nicola and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2012) When do we believe experts? The power of the unorthodox view. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 30(6), pp. 729-748. ISSN (print) 0735-3936
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2012) Relevance-driven information search in "pseudodiagnostic" reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(3), pp. 541-552. ISSN (print) 0272-4987
Weller, A., Villejoubert, G. and Vallee-Tourangeau, F. (2011) Interactive insight problem solving. Thinking & Reasoning, 17(4), pp. 424-439. ISSN (print) 1354-6783
Martinez, Frederic, Le Floch, Valerie, Gaffie, Bernard and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2011) Reports of wins and risk taking: an investigation of the mediating effect of the illusion of control. Journal of Gambling Studies, 27(2), pp. 271-285. ISSN (print) 1050-5350
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2011) La resolution de probleme naturalisee. Enfance, 2011(1), pp. 93-116. ISSN (online) 0013-7545
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2011) Constructing preferences in the physical world: a distributed cognition perspective on preferences and risky choices. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(302), ISSN (online) 1664-1078
Juanchich, Marie, Teigen, Karl H. and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010) Is guilt 'likely' or 'not certain'? Contrast with previous probabilities determines choice of verbal terms. Acta Psychologica, 135(3), pp. 267-277. ISSN (print) 0001-6918
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois, Feeney, Aidan and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) When some is actually all: scalar inferences in face-threatening contexts. Cognition, 112(2), pp. 249-258. ISSN (print) 0010-0277
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Almond, Louise and Alison, Laurence (2009) Interpreting claims in offender profiles: the role of probability phrases, base rates and perceived dangerousness. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(1), pp. 36-54. ISSN (print) 0888-4080
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2007) Modus Tollens, Modus Shmollens: contrapositive reasoning and the pragmatics of negation. Thinking & Reasoning, 13(2), pp. 207-222. ISSN (print) 1354-6783
Maule, J. and Villejoubert, G. (2007) What lies beneath: reframing framing effects. Thinking & Reasoning, 13(1), pp. 25-44. ISSN (print) 1354-6783
Villejoubert, Gaelle (2007) Les aides graphiques peuvent-elles nous aider a mieux raisonner avec les probabilites [Can graphical aids help improve probabilistic reasoning?]. Les Annales de la Fondation Fyssen, 22, pp. 32-43. ISSN (print) 0980-157X
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2006) Tactful, or doubtful? Expectations of politeness explain the severity bias in the interpretation of probability phrases. Psychological Science, 17(9), pp. 747-751. ISSN (print) 0956-7976
Hilton, Denis, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Bonnefon, Jean-Francois (2005) How to do things with logical expressions: creating collective value through co-ordinated reasoning. Interaction Studies, 6(1), pp. 103-117. ISSN (print) 1572-0373
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Mandel, David R. (2002) The inverse fallacy: an account of deviations from Bayes's theorem and the additivity principle. Memory & Cognition, 30(2), pp. 171-178. ISSN (print) 0090-502X
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Sakellariou, Evy and Szigetvári, Fanni (2023) Individual innovation and creativity : an interdisciplinary mapping of creative cognition. In: Ball, Linden and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, (eds.) Handbook of Creative Cognition. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. (In Press)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2019) Insight. In: Glaveanu, Vlad Petre, (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319983905 (Epub Ahead of Print)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2017) Thinking and deciding beyond the brain. In: Galbraith, Niall , Lucas, Erica and Over, David E., (eds.) The thinking mind: a Festschrift for Ken Manktelow. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 40-53. ISBN 9781138937871
Le Floch, Valerie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2013) Il y a sans doute en fonction des contextes des explications qui paraissent plus "plausibles" que d’autres... [There are undoubtedly, depending on contexts, explanations that seem more "plausible" than others...]. In: Abdellaoui, Sid, (ed.) L’expertise psycholegale: Enjeux, realites et nouvelles perspectives. Paris, France : L'Harmattan. pp. 117-134. ISBN 9782336290843
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010) Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning. In: Ohlsson, S. and Catrambone, R., (eds.) Cognition in flux: proceedings of the 32nd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A. : Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1172-1177.
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Le Floch, Valerie (2010) Jugement et prise de decision: etat de l'art et methodes d'aides a la decision en milieu professionnel. [Judgment and decision-making: field overview and decision aids methods in professional settings]. In: Morchain, P. and Somat, A., (eds.) La psychologie sociale: applicabilite et applications. Grenoble, France : Presses Universitaires de Grenoble. pp. 189-214. ISBN 9782753510616
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2010) The psychology of risk management. In: Boecker, K., (ed.) Rethinking risk measurement and reporting: uncertainty, Bayesian analysis and expert judgement. London, U.K. : Risk Books. 1 ISBN 1906348405
Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid? The effect of time pressure on the conjunction fallacy. In: Taatgen, N. , van Rijn, H. , Schomaker, L. and Nerbonne, J., (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A. : Cognitive Science Society. pp. 2980-2985. ISBN 9780976831853
Juanchich, Marie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) How do speakers choose uncertainty phrases to express guilt probabilities? In: Taatgen, N. , van Rijn, H. , Schomaker, L. and Nerbonne, J., (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin,U.S.A. : Cognitive Science Society. pp. 2717-2722. ISBN 9780976831853
Gourdon, Amélie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements. In: Taatgen, N. , van Rijn, H. , Schomaker, L. and Nerbonne, J., (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A. : Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1121-1126. ISBN 9780976831853
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Wheelock, Ana, Vandrevala, Tushna and Harries, Priscilla (2021) Applying Social Judgment Theory to better understand what peer-reviewers pay attention to when evaluating proposals. In: 27th International (Virtual) Meeting of the Brunswik Society; 09-10 Dec 2021, Held online. (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2021) Determinants of influenza uptake among healthcare workers. In: Influenza in healthcare workers and the role of vaccination; 10 Jun 2021, Held Online. (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle [Presenter], Wheelock, Ana, Vandrevala, Tushna and Harries, Priscilla (2021) Applying social judgment theory to better understand what peer reviewers pay attention to when evaluating fellowship grant proposals. In: Centre for Decision Research (CDR) Seminar Series; 03 Mar 2021, Leeds, U.K. (Held online). (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic [Collaborator] (2019) Can you take a break if you have work to do? Momentary emotional wellbeing and prospective hedonic judgments of leisure. In: 27th Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) Conference; 18 - 22 Aug 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2019) A (very) short introduction to behavioural science methods for business and management. In: 10th Annual Faculty Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business and Social Sciences in a period of uncertainty; 03 - 04 Jun 2019, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Hallpike, Helen, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Van Der Heijden, Beatrice (2018) Career sustainability and decision-making in the face of increasing longevity. In: 9th Annual Faculty of Business Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business; 04 Jun 2018, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Riege, Anine, Henderson, Emma, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2018) Impossible participants or impossible instructions? An eye-tracking investigation of an ego depletion paradigm. In: 9th Annual Faculty of Business Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business; 04 Jun 2018, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie, Beck, Sarah R. and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2017) Children’s interpretation of verbal probabilities: use of directionality and pragmatic cues. In: International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) 2017; 23-25 Mar 2017, Vienna, Austria. (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2016) Levels of engagement with vaccination impacts risk perception and vaccination - decisions in healthcare workers. In: Strategies to increase vaccine acceptance and uptake; 26-28 Sep 2016, Les Pensières, Annecy, France. (Unpublished)
Henderson, Emma, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2016) Touchy thinking: interactivity improves planning. In: Third International Conference on Interactivity, Language and Cognition (CILC2016): the Tactility of Thinking and Talking; 29 Jun – 01 Jul 2016, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Ramasubramanian, Madhuri (2016) The description-experience gap in risky choice framing. In: 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2016): Recognizing and Representing Events; 10-13 Aug 2016, Philadelphia, U.S.. ISBN 9780991196739
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Abadie, Marlene (2011) Distributed Bayesian reasoning. In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting; 13 - 15 Apr 2011, Oxford, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Weller, Anna (2011) Distributed cognition and insight. In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting; 13 - 15 Apr 2011, Oxford, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Almond, Louise, Alison, Laurence and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010) The role of representativeness and cognitive elaboration in judging the probability of a suspect's guilt. In: 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making; 19 - 22 Nov 2010, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.. (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010) Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning. In: Cognition in Flux: 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; 11 - 14 Aug 2010, Portland, U.S..
Juanchich, Marie, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Mullet, Etienne (2010) The meanings of verbal probabilities. In: Emerging Issues in Business and Law; 22 Jun 2010, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Villejoubert, Gaelle [Speaker], Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2009) Feeding the mind's eye: unconscious deliberation needs visual information. In: LJDM seminar; 4 Nov 2009, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid? In: British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference; 01 - 03 Sep 2009, Hatfield, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) Distributed cognition in problem solving. In: British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference; 01 - 03 Sep 2009, Hatfield, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid? In: SPUDM 22 : Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making; 23 - 27 Aug 2009, Rovereto, Italy. (Unpublished)
Juanchich, Marie, Teigen, Karl Halvor and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) Verbal probability choice, a story of contrast? In: SPUDM 22 : Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making; 23 - 27 Aug 2009, Rovereto, Italy. (Unpublished)
Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid? The effect of time pressure on the conjunction fallacy. In: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Juanchich, Marie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) How do speakers choose uncertainty phrases to express guilt probabilities? In: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Gourdon, Amélie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements. In: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009) Communicating likelihood and managing face: can we say it is probable when we know it to be certain? In: CogSci 2005 XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; 21 - 23 Jul 2005, Strea, Italy.
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2009) Les roles des utilities, de la motivation, et de l'information numerique dans le raisonnement pseudo-diagnostique [Utility-driven information search in pseudodiagnostic reasoning]. In: Congres de la SFP : Psychologie at enjeux de societe [Annual Conference of the French Psychological Society]; 17 - 19 Jun 2009, Toulouse, France. (Unpublished)
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle and Szigetvri, Fanni [Author-contributor] (2023) A behavioural insights study of the Kingston Chamber of Commerce Website. (Project Report) Kingston-upon-Thames, U.K. : Kingston University. 24 p. (Unpublished)
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Peltier, Marie and de Villaines, Astrid (2021) Peut-on vraiment changer d'avis? (radio debate). (54 min.)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2016) Interactivity Fosters Bayesian Reasoning without Instruction [Data set and code book]. [Dataset]
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