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Marvin Law

PhD Candidate

The University of Sydney

Biography

Marvin is a curious, driven and analytical researcher with a passion for data. He believes that it is the key to discovering patterns in behaviour and to ultimately predict and improve life outcomes. Prior to being a PhD candidate, he has worked in both academia and industry, presenting at several national conferences, publishing empirically validated papers in high impact journals as well as leading and delivering several research projects in market research.

Marvin was selected to receive the prestigious Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship in recognition of his drive, experience, and achievements. In his research, he will examine psychological and physiological predictors of in-lab and real-life outcomes. Marvin has learnt numerous programming languages and tools to investigate and solve questions in research and plans on extending this data-toolbox further with new, unique and exciting projects.

Interests

  • Cognitive Decision-Making
  • Applied Statistics
  • Individual Differences

Education

  • PhD in Psychology, 2018

    The University of Sydney

  • Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), 2015

    The University of Sydney

Publications

It's the deceiver and the receiver - Individual differences in phishing susceptibility and false positives with item profiling

Phishing email is one of the biggest risks to online information security due to its ability to exploit human trust and naivety. Prior …

It's the deceiver, not the receiver- No individual differences when detecting deception in a foreign and a native language

Individual differences in lie detection remain poorly understood. Bond and DePaulo's meta-analysis examined judges (receivers) who were …

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