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I am an Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, interested in decision making psychology, computational modelling, and applied statistics. Before coming to Warwick, I did a PhD in Experimental Psychology at University College London under supervision of Adam Harris and Henrik Singmann. You can contact me at maximilianmaier0401[at]gmail.com.

I’m happy to support motivated students and researchers at all levels—BSc, MSc, PhD, or postdoc. Several promising ideas are just waiting for a motivated student or researcher and of course I am also happy to support projects that you propose. If you want to discuss more just send me an email and we can set up a meeting.

Research Interest:

My research interests include the following areas:

  • computational models of cognition and decision making
  • moral and prosocial decision making
  • decision making under extinction risk
  • ecological rationality and representative design
  • behaviour change
  • using paradigms from cognitive science and psychology to study LLMs
  • meta-science, meta-analysis, and publication bias correction
  • …

Representative Publications:

  • Maier, M.*, Cheung, V.*, & Lieder, F. (in press). Learning from outcomes shapes reliance on moral rules versus cost-benefit reasoning. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gjf3h
  • Cheung, V.*, Maier, M.*, & Lieder, F. (2025). Large language models show amplified cognitive biases in moral decision-making. PNAS, 122(25), e2412015122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2412015122
  • Maier, M., Harris, A. J. L., Kellen, D., & Singmann, H. (2025). Decision making under extinction risk. Cognitive Psychology, 159, 101735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101735
  • Maier, M.*, Bartoš, F.*, Stanley, T. D., Shanks, D. R., Harris, A. J. L., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2022). No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias. PNAS, 119(31), e2200300119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200300119
  • Maier, M.*, Bartoš, F.*, & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2023). Robust Bayesian Meta-Analysis: Addressing publication bias with model-averaging. Psychological Methods, 28(1), 107–122. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000405

For more information, see my CV, and my Google scholar.