Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, PhD
Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

About Me

Sarah Ashcroft-Jones is a researcher of the psychological and behavioural sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research interests include decision making, categorisation, and cognitive biases. Her current work focuses on understanding the individual and structural factors that influence financial and health behaviours. She leads the Junior Researcher Programme, which develops opportunities for early career researchers in the psychological and behavioural sciences. She likes to ask questions.

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Interests
  • Decision making
  • Decision confidence
  • Behavioural interventions
  • Open science
Education

  • PhD in Experimental Psychology

    Oxford University

  • MSc in Psychological Research

    Oxford University

  • MA in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

    Cambridge University

My Research

I like to ask questions.

I am a research scientist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. My work focuses on understanding the individual and structural factors that influence financial and health behaviours. Alongside my research, I act as an educator and a research consultant. I also volunteer my time as the Executive Director of the JRP.

My current active research projects range from the computational modelling of confidence in decision-making to testing real-time interventions on vaccine uptake and financial behaviours. I am an advocate of Open Science practices.

Featured Publications
People in 26 countries prefer individual control to commercial or governmental control over online choice architectures
The persistence of cognitive biases in financial decisions across economic groups
Recent Publications
Friederike Stock, Sofia Pelica, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Federica Stablum, Chabelly Acosta, Ava Aimable, Megan Amaro, Parker Anderson, Nicolas Brandao, Daniella Coen, Catherine Coughlin, Mina Crnogorac, Annie Leyao Dong, Jasmin Dönicke, Roxana Ehlers, Sondos Elkot, Eman Farahat, Nika Filippov, Shiri Gil, Helena Jemioło, Marta W. Karczewska, Nina Franziska Kirchhof, Shalini Kudinoor, Olivia La Rue, Dominik Meindl, Ana Milošič, Jaaziel Olayinka, Sebnem Ozdemir, Ye-Eun Park, Nicole Pi, Nina Šafranko, Arushi Saxena, Yasmin Silane, Philippe Roman Sloksnath, Valério Souza-Neto, Barnabas Szaszi, Amira Al Rai, Cruz Vernon, Mona W. Xie, Ruohan Xu, Yuki Yamada, Fikret Yetkin, Eszter Zilahi, Kai Ruggeri, Ralph Hertwig, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (2024). People in 26 countries prefer individual control to commercial or governmental control over online choice architectures. OSF.
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Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, PhD (2024). People in 26 countries prefer individual control to commercial or governmental control over online choice architectures. Preprint.
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Kai Ruggeri, Giampaolo Abate Romero Landini, Katharina Busch, Valentina Cafarelli, Barbora Doubravová, Deniz Misra Gurol, Melika Miralem, Fredrik Nilsson, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Friederike Stock (2024). Financial decision-making, income, cognitive biases: The impact of economic systems and environments on behavior in six countries. OSF.
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Kai Ruggeri, Friederike Stock, S. Alexander Haslam, Valerio Capraro, Paulo Boggio, Naomi Ellemers, Aleksandra Cichocka, Karen M. Douglas, David G. Rand, Sander Van Der Linden, Mina Cikara, Eli J. Finkel, James N. Druckman, Michael J. A. Wohl, Richard E. Petty, Joshua A. Tucker, Azim Shariff, Michele Gelfand, Dominic Packer, Jolanda Jetten, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, Katherine Baicker, Alia Crum, Kim A. Weeden, Lucy Napper, Nassim Tabri, Jamil Zaki, Linda Skitka, Shinobu Kitayama, Dean Mobbs, Cass R. Sunstein, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Anna Louise Todsen, Ali Hajian, Sanne Verra, Vanessa Buehler, Maja Friedemann, Marlene Hecht, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Ralitsa Karakasheva, Markus R. Tünte, Siu Kit Yeung, R. Shayna Rosenbaum, Žan Lep, Yuki Yamada, Sa-Kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Lucía Macchia, Irina Soboleva, Eugen Dimant, Sandra J. Geiger, Hannes Jarke, Tobias Wingen, Jana B. Berkessel, Silvana Mareva, Lucy McGill, Francesca Papa, Bojana Većkalov, Zeina Afif, Eike K. Buabang, Marna Landman, Felice Tavera, Jack L. Andrews, Aslı Bursalıoğlu, Zorana Zupan, Lisa Wagner, Joaquín Navajas, Marek Vranka, David Kasdan, Patricia Chen, Kathleen R. Hudson, Lindsay M. Novak, Paul Teas, Nikolay R. Rachev, Matteo M. Galizzi, Katherine L. Milkman, Marija Petrović, Jay J. Van Bavel, Robb Willer (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature.
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Olmo R. Van Den Akker, Marjan Bakker, Marcel A. L. M. Van Assen, Charlotte R. Pennington, Leone Verweij, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Aline Claesen, Stefan D. M. Gaillard, Siu Kit Yeung, Jan-Luca Frankenberger, Kai Krautter, Jamie P. Cockcroft, Katharina S. Kreuer, Thomas Rhys Evans, Frédérique M. Heppel, Sarah F. Schoch, Max Korbmacher, Yuki Yamada, Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir, Shilaan Alzahawi, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Maksim M. Sitnikov, Filip Děchtěrenko, Sophia Wingen, Sandra Grinschgl, Helena Hartmann, Suzanne L. K. Stewart, Cátia M. F. De Oliveira, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Bradley J. Baker, Jelte M. Wicherts (2024). The potential of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration producibility and preregistration-study consistency.. Psychological Methods.
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