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Professor Thomas Ormerod

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Journal article
  2. Published

    Sleep promotes analogical transfer in problem solving

    Monaghan, P., Sio, U. N., Lau, S. W., Woo, H. K., Linkenauger, S. A. & Ormerod, T. C., 10/2015, In: Cognition. 143, p. 25-30 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Helping to sort the liars from the truth-tellers: the gradual revelation of information during investigative interviews

    Dando, C., Bull, R., Ormerod, T. & Sandham, A., 02/2015, In: Legal and Criminological Psychology. 20, 1, p. 114-128 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Detecting insider threats to organizations through language change

    Taylor, P., Dando, C., Ormerod, T., Ball, L., Jenkins, M., Sandham, A. & Menacere, T., 08/2013, In: Law and Human Behavior. 37, 4, p. 267-275 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Do preference reversals generalise? Results on ambiguity and loss aversion

    Ball, L. J., Bardsley, N. & Ormerod, T., 02/2012, In: Journal of Economic Psychology. 33, 1, p. 48-57 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Informing the development of a fraud prevention toolset through a situated analysis of fraud investigation expertise

    Ormerod, T. C., Ball, L. J. & Morley, N. J., 2012, In: Behaviour and Information Technology. 31, 4, p. 371-381 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    When help becomes hindrance: Unexpected errors of omission and commission in eyewitness memory resulting from change temporal order at retrieval?

    Dando, C., Ormerod, T., Wilcock, R. & Milne, R., 12/2011, In: Cognition. 121, 3, p. 416-421 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Explaining away the negative effects of evaluation on analogical transfer: The perils of premature evaluation

    Bearman, C., Ormerod, T. C., Ball, L. J. & Deptula, D., 2011, In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . 64, 5, p. 942-959 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Sentence memorability reveals the mental representations involved in processing spatial descriptions

    Fleming, P., Ball, L. J., Ormerod, T. C. & Collins, A. F., 2011, In: Thinking and Reasoning. 17, 1, p. 30-56 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Does incubation enhance problem solving? A meta-analytic review.

    Sio, U. & Ormerod, T., 01/2009, In: Psychological Bulletin. 135, 1, p. 94-120 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    People and Computers XXI - HCI... but not as we know it: Proceedings of HCI.

    Ball, L. J., Sasse, A., Sas, C., Ormerod, T. C., Dix, A., Bagnall, P. & McEwan, T., 09/2007, In: People and Computers. 1

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    The Structure and Function of Spontaneous Analogising in Domain-Based Problem Solving.

    Bearman, C. R., Ball, L. J. & Ormerod, T. C., 08/2007, In: Thinking and Reasoning. 13, 3, p. 273-294 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Analogue versus propositional representation in congenitally blind individuals.

    Ball, L. J., Collins, A. F., Fleming, P. & Ormerod, T. C., 1/12/2006, In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 13, 6, p. 1049-1055 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    How the detection of insurance fraud succeeds and fails.

    Morley, N. J., Ball, L. J. & Ormerod, T. C., 04/2006, In: Psychology, Crime and Law. 12, 2, p. 163-180 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    A comparison of heuristic and human performance on open versions of the traveling salesperson problem.

    MacGregor, J. N., Chronicle, E. P. & Ormerod, T., 2006, In: Journal of Problem Solving. 1, 1, p. 33-43 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    It looks easy! Heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems.

    Chronicle, E. P., MacGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C. & Burr, A., 2006, In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . 39, 4, p. 783 -800

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Doing ethnography and experiments together to explore collaborative photograph handling.

    Ormerod, T. C., Morley, N., Mariani, J., Lewis, K., Hitch, G., Mathrick, J. & Rodden, T., 09/2004, In: Design For Life. 2, p. 81-84 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Spontaneous analogising in engineering design: a comparative analysis of experts and novices.

    Ball, L. J., Ormerod, T. C., Morley, N. J., Cross, N. (ed.) & Edmonds, E. (ed.), 09/2004, In: Design Studies. 25, 5, p. 495-508 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Convex-hull or crossing-avoidance? : solution heuristics in the travelling salesperson problem.

    MacGregor, J. N., Chronicle, E. P. & Ormerod, T. C., 03/2004, In: Memory and Cognition. 32, 2, p. 260-270 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    What makes an insight problem? The roles of heuristics, goal conception and solution recoding in knowledge-lean problems.

    Chronicle, E. P., MacGregor, J. N. & Ormerod, T. C., 01/2004, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 30, 1, p. 14-27 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    On the generation and evaluation of inferences from single premises.

    Ormerod, T. C. & Richardson, J., 04/2003, In: Memory and Cognition. 31, 3, p. 467-478 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Dynamics and Constraints in Insight Problem Solving.

    Ormerod, T. C., Chronicle, E. P. & MacGregor, J. N., 1/01/2002, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 28, 4, p. 791-799 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Representing design rationale to support innovative design reuse: a minimalist approach.

    Ball, L. J., Lambell, N. J., Ormerod, T. C., Slavin, S. & Mariani, J. A., 08/2001, In: Automation in Construction. 10, 6, p. 663-674 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Information-processing and insight: A process model of performance on the nine-dot and related problems.

    Ormerod, T. C., Chronicle, E. P. & MacGregor, J. N., 1/01/2001, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 27, p. 176-201 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    When insight just won’t come: The failure of visual cues in the nine-dot problem.

    Chronicle, E. P., Ormerod, T. C. & MacGregor, J. N., 2001, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Series a Human Experimental Psychology. 54 A, 3, p. 903-919 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Putting ethnography to work: the case for a cognitive ethnography of design.

    Ball, L. J. & Ormerod, T. C., 07/2000, In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 53, 1, p. 147-168 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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