Wells, Andrew


Dr Andrew Wells  

Department

Position held

Institute of Social Psychology

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Experience keywords:

cognitive theory; computers; computation; cognitive science; psychological research methods; evolutionary psychology; philosophy

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

020 7955 7709

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2007

Dickens, T.E and Sear, Rebecca and Wells, Andrew J. (2007) Mind the gap(s)... in theory, method and data: a response to Kanazawa (2006). British journal of health psychology, 12 (2). pp. 167-178. ISSN 1359-107X

2006

Wells, Andrew J. (2006) Rethinking cognitive computation: Turing and the science of the mind. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 1403911622

Wells, Andrew J. (2006) In defense of mechanism. Ecological psychology, 18 (1). pp. 39-65. ISSN 1040-7413

2005

Wells, A.J. (2005) Algorists, algorithms, and complexity: an exploration of the Shavian critque of discrete state computation. Ecological psychology, 17 (3&4). pp. 205-230. ISSN 1040-7413

2004

Wells, Andrew J. (2004) Cognitive science and the Turing machine: an ecological perspective. In: Teuscher, Christof, (ed.) Alan Turing: life and legacy of a great thinker. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 271-294. ISBN 3540200207

2002

Wells, Andrew J. (2002) Gibson's affordances and Turing's theory of computation. Ecological psychology, 14 (3). pp. 140-180. ISSN 1040-7413

2000

Wells, Andrew J. (2000) Turing machines and the study of human cognitive architecture. In: Kent, Allen and Williams, James G, (eds.) Encyclopedia of computer science and technology. Marcel Dekker, London, pp. 337-359. ISBN 9780824722968

1999

Nutt, D. and Baldwin, D. and Beaumont, G. and Bell, C. and Denny, C. and Knapp, Martin and Maxwell, R. and McNicholas, F. and Wells, Andrew J. (1999) Guidelines for the management of social phobia/social anxiety disorder. Primary care psychiatry, 5 (4). pp. 147-155. ISSN 1746-8841

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