Professor Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Management
- Kingston Business School
- Kingston Hill
Professor of Behavioural Science and School Director of Research and Enterprise
About
I am a professor of behavioural science and director of research and enterprise for Kingston Business School. I joined Kingston Business School as a professor of behavioural science in January 2016.
After studying at Paris Nanterre University (1998, MSc Social Psychology) and the University of Hertfordshire (2004, PhD), I began my career as a lecturer in Decision Sciences at Leeds University Business School (2001-2004). I then worked as a lecturer in Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Toulouse (2004-2009) before joining the Psychology Department at Kingston University in 2009.
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology (Judgement and Decision-Making)
- MSc in Experimental Social Psychology
- BSc in Psychology
- Certified Management & Business Educator
Domains
My research contributes to the psychology of decision-making, risk and uncertainty, and thinking. My work focuses on how individuals communicate and interpret uncertainty, draw conclusions based on uncertain information, and how judgments, decisions, choices, problem-solving and innovation are shaped by individuals' motivations, mode of thinking (intuitive or deliberative) and the way information is distributed in their environment. Currently, I am working on a 2-year research project funded by the Wellcome Trust examining how expert reviewers make judgments about research proposals.
Specialisms
- Judgement and Decision-Making
- Thinking and problem-solving
- Behavioural insights
Scholarly affiliations
- European Association for Decision-Making
- mKTP in partnership with PromoVeritas
- BIG Innovation in partnership with Create4MentalHealth
Industry links
- Create4Mental Health
- PromoVeritas
- Sanofi-Pasteur
- Royal Borough of Kingston
Professional and scholarly affiliations
- European Association for Decision Making
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making
- Global Association for Applied Behavioural Scientists
University responsibilities
- Director of Research and Enterprise for Kingston Business School
- Member of the peer-review college
- Academic Lead for the Kingston Behavioural Science Lab
Public and Civic roles
- President for the European Association for Decision-Making
- Board member of the French Education and Research Network in the UK (FERN-UK)
Publications
Development and validation of the Chinese teacher sources of stress scale
Wei, Qi, Van der Heijden, Beatrice and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2025, European Review of Applied Psychology (75), 1, pp 101004
The vaccination acceptance, confidence and conviction on influenza in the Middle East, Eurasia and Africa among healthcare providers (VACCIMENA-HCP) project 2023 : determinants of vaccination behavior
Tanriover, Mine Durusu, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Kokorin, Valentin A, Larina, Vera N, Maamar, Mouna, Harmouche, Hicham, Uyaroğlu, Oğuz Abdullah, Kutlay, Dilan Yağmur, Khelil, Jalila Ben, Anjorin, Abdul-Azeez A, Rana, Muhammad Suleman, Jabrayilov, Jabrayil, Slail, Fatima Al, Kathiry, Dalal Al, Harthi, Hasina Al, Ghazy, Ramy Mohamed, Gahwagi, Milad, Mafi, Alireza, Koul, Parvaiz and Awaidy, Salah Al, 2025, IJID Regions, pp 100572
Moral obligation, autonomous motivation and vaccine hesitancy : highlighting moral obligation increases reactance in hesitant individuals
Pavey, Louisa, Rotella, Amanda and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2024, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
What do you do when your career script runs out? How older workers decide whether and how to sustain their careers
Hallpike, Helen, Van der Heijden, Beatrice I J M and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2024, Work, Aging and Retirement
Vaccination invitations sent by warm and competent medical professionals disclosing risks and benefits increase trust and booking intention and reduce inequalities between ethnic groups
Juanchich, Marie, Oakley, Claire M., Sayer, Hazel, Holford, Dawn Liu, Bruine de Bruin, Wändi, Booker, Cara, Chadborn, Tim, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Wood, Reed M. and Sirota, Miroslav, 2024, Health Psychology (43), 10, pp 718-729
Distributed interactive decision-making for sustainable careers : how do executives interact with their career context when making decisions to sustain their careers?
Hallpike, Helen, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Van der Heijden, Beatrice, 2023, German Journal of Human Resource Management
A distributed interactive decision-making framework for sustainable career development
Hallpike, Helen, Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle and Van der Heijden, Beatrice, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology (12), pp 790533
Development and validation of the treatmentself-regulation questionnaire assessing healthcare professionals' motivation for flu vaccination (TSRQ-Flu)
Moon, Karis, Riege, Anine, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2022, (37), 3, pp 259-278
Peer reviewer’s dilemmas : a qualitative exploration of decisional conflict in the evaluation of grant applications in the medical humanities and social sciences
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Wheelock, Ana, Vandrevala, Tushna and Harries, Priscilla, 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (9), pp 70
Covert eye-tracking : an innovative method to investigate compliance with instructions
Riege, Anine, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2021, Psychological Research (85), pp 3084-3093
The moderating effect of autonomy on promotional health messages encouraging healthcare professionals to get the influenza vaccine
Moon, Karis, Riege, Anine, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (27), 2, pp 187-200
Insight as discovery
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Ross, Wendy, Ruffatto Rech, Renata and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2021, Journal of Cognitive Psychology (33), 6-7, pp 718-737
Mapping systemic resources in problem solving
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2020, New Ideas in Psychology (59), pp 100812
Incubation and interactivity in insight problem solving
Henok, Niyat, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2020, Psychological Research (84), 1, pp 128-139
Motors of influenza vaccination uptake and vaccination advocacy in healthcare workers : a comparative study in six European countries
Kassianos, George, Kuchar, Ernest, Nitsch-Osuch, Aneta, Kyncl, Jan, Galev, Andrey, Humolli, Isme, Falup-Pecurariu, Oana, Thomson, Angus, Klein, Christina and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2018, Vaccine (36), 44, pp 6546-6552
Motors of influenza vaccination uptake and vaccination advocacy in healthcare workers : development and validation of two short scales
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Promberger, Marianne, Moon, Karis, Wheelock, Ana, Sirota, Miroslav, Norton, Christine and Sevdalis, Nick, 2018, Vaccine (36), 44, pp 6540-6545
Strategies to increase vaccine acceptance and uptake : from behavioral insights to context-specific, culturally-appropriate, evidence-based communications and interventions
Thomson, Angus, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Suggs, L. Suzanne, 2018, Vaccine (36), 44, pp 6457-6458
Interactivity mitigates the impact of working memory depletion on mental arithmetic performance
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Sirota, Miroslav and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2016, Cognitive Research : Principles and Implications (1)
Why the best problem-solvers think with their hands, as well as their heads
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2016, The Conversation
Insight with hands and things
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Steffensen, Sune Vork, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Sirota, Miroslav, 2016, Acta Psychologica (170), pp 195-205
The 5As: A practical taxonomy for the determinants of vaccine uptake
Thomson, Angus, Robinson, Karis and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2016, Vaccine (34), 8, pp 1018-1024
Cognitive events in a problem solving task : qualitative methods for investigating interactivity in the 17 animals problem
Steffensen, Sune, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2016, Journal Of Cognitive Psychology (28), 1, pp 79-105
On Bayesian problem-solving : helping Bayesians solve simple Bayesian word problems
Sirota, Miroslav, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Juanchich, Marie, 2015, Frontiers in Psychology (6), pp 1141
Learning and interactivity in solving a transformation problem
Guthrie, Lisa, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Howard, Chelsea, 2015, (43), 5, pp 723-735
Interactivity fosters Bayesian reasoning without instruction
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (144), 3, pp 581-603
Beyond getting the numbers right : what does it mean to be a "successful" Bayesian reasoner?
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Sirota, Miroslav, Juanchich, Marie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, Frontiers in Psychology (6), 712
The spatio-temporal dynamics of systemic thinking
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2014, (21), 1-2, pp 113-127
Diagrams, jars, and matchsticks : a systemicist's toolkit
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2014, Pragmatics and Cognition (22), 2, pp 187-205
The interplay between presentation material and decision mode for complex choice preferences
Abadie, Marlene, Villejoubert, Gaelle, Waroquier, Laurent and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2013, Journal Of Cognitive Psychology (25), 6, pp 682-691
Can membership-functions capture the directionality of verbal probabilities?
Juanchich, Marie, Sirota, Miroslav, Karelitz, Tzur M. and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2013, (19), 2, pp 231-247
When do we believe experts? The power of the unorthodox view
Alison, Laurence, Almond, Louise, Christiansen, Paul, Waring, Sara, Power, Nicola and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2012, (30), 6, pp 729-748
Relevance-driven information search in "pseudodiagnostic" reasoning
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2012, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (65), 3, pp 541-552
Interactive insight problem solving
Weller, A., Villejoubert, G. and Vallee-Tourangeau, F., 2011, (17), 4, pp 424-439
Reports of wins and risk taking: an investigation of the mediating effect of the illusion of control
Martinez, Frederic, Le Floch, Valerie, Gaffie, Bernard and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2011, Journal of Gambling Studies (27), 2, pp 271-285
La resolution de probleme naturalisee
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2011, Enfance (2011), 1, pp 93-116
Constructing preferences in the physical world: a distributed cognition perspective on preferences and risky choices
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2011, Frontiers in Psychology (2), 302
Is guilt 'likely' or 'not certain'? Contrast with previous probabilities determines choice of verbal terms
Juanchich, Marie, Teigen, Karl H. and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2010, Acta Psychologica (135), 3, pp 267-277
When some is actually all: scalar inferences in face-threatening contexts
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois, Feeney, Aidan and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2009, Cognition (112), 2, pp 249-258
Interpreting claims in offender profiles: the role of probability phrases, base rates and perceived dangerousness
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Almond, Louise and Alison, Laurence, 2009, Applied Cognitive Psychology (23), 1, pp 36-54
Modus Tollens, Modus Shmollens: contrapositive reasoning and the pragmatics of negation
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2007, (13), 2, pp 207-222
What lies beneath: reframing framing effects
Maule, J. and Villejoubert, G., 2007, (13), 1, pp 25-44
Les aides graphiques peuvent-elles nous aider a mieux raisonner avec les probabilites [Can graphical aids help improve probabilistic reasoning?]
Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2007, Les Annales de la Fondation Fyssen (22), pp 32-43
Tactful, or doubtful? Expectations of politeness explain the severity bias in the interpretation of probability phrases
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2006, Psychological Science (17), 9, pp 747-751
How to do things with logical expressions: creating collective value through co-ordinated reasoning
Hilton, Denis, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Bonnefon, Jean-Francois, 2005, Interaction Studies (6), 1, pp 103-117
The inverse fallacy: an account of deviations from Bayes's theorem and the additivity principle
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Mandel, David R., 2002, (30), 2, pp 171-178
Individual innovation and creativity : an interdisciplinary mapping of creative cognition
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Sakellariou, Evy and Szigetvári, Fanni (2023). In: Ball, Linden, (eds.) and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, (eds.), Handbook of Creative Cognition. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Insight
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2019). In: Glaveanu, Vlad Petre, (ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
Thinking and deciding beyond the brain
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2017). In: Galbraith, Niall, (eds.), Lucas, Erica, (eds.) and Over, David E., (eds.), The thinking mind: a Festschrift for Ken Manktelow. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 40-53
Il y a sans doute en fonction des contextes des explications qui paraissent plus "plausibles" que d’autres... [There are undoubtedly, depending on contexts, explanations that seem more "plausible" than others...]
Le Floch, Valerie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2013). In: Abdellaoui, Sid, (ed.), L’expertise psycholegale: Enjeux, realites et nouvelles perspectives. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, pp 117-134
Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010). In: Ohlsson, S., (eds.) and Catrambone, R., (eds.), Cognition in flux: proceedings of the 32nd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A.: Cognitive Science Society, pp 1172-1177
Jugement et prise de decision: etat de l'art et methodes d'aides a la decision en milieu professionnel. [Judgment and decision-making: field overview and decision aids methods in professional settings]
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Le Floch, Valerie (2010). In: Morchain, P., (eds.) and Somat, A., (eds.), La psychologie sociale: applicabilite et applications. Grenoble, France: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, pp 189-214
The psychology of risk management
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2010). In: Boecker, K., (ed.), Rethinking risk measurement and reporting: uncertainty, Bayesian analysis and expert judgement. London, U.K.: Risk Books
Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid? The effect of time pressure on the conjunction fallacy
Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009). In: Taatgen, N., (eds.), van Rijn, H., (eds.), Schomaker, L., (eds.) and Nerbonne, J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A.: Cognitive Science Society, pp 2980-2985
How do speakers choose uncertainty phrases to express guilt probabilities?
Juanchich, Marie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009). In: Taatgen, N., (eds.), van Rijn, H., (eds.), Schomaker, L., (eds.) and Nerbonne, J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin,U.S.A.: Cognitive Science Society, pp 2717-2722
A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements
Gourdon, Amélie and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2009). In: Taatgen, N., (eds.), van Rijn, H., (eds.), Schomaker, L., (eds.) and Nerbonne, J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A.: Cognitive Science Society, pp 1121-1126
A behavioural insights study of the Kingston Chamber of Commerce Website
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle and Szigetvri, Fanni (2023). Kingston-upon-Thames, U.K.: (Kingston University)
Applying Social Judgment Theory to better understand what peer-reviewers pay attention to when evaluating proposals
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Wheelock, Ana, Vandrevala, Tushna and Harries, Priscilla(2021). In: 27th International (Virtual) Meeting of the Brunswik Society, 09-10 Dec 2021 :Held online
Determinants of influenza uptake among healthcare workers
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle(2021). In: Influenza in healthcare workers and the role of vaccination, 10 Jun 2021 :Held Online
Applying social judgment theory to better understand what peer reviewers pay attention to when evaluating fellowship grant proposals
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Wheelock, Ana, Vandrevala, Tushna and Harries, Priscilla(2021). In: Centre for Decision Research (CDR) Seminar Series, 03 Mar 2021 :Leeds, U.K. (Held online)
Can you take a break if you have work to do? Momentary emotional wellbeing and prospective hedonic judgments of leisure
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2019). In: 27th Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) Conference, 18 - 22 Aug 2019 :Amsterdam, Netherlands
A (very) short introduction to behavioural science methods for business and management
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle(2019). In: 10th Annual Faculty Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business and Social Sciences in a period of uncertainty, 03 - 04 Jun 2019 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Career sustainability and decision-making in the face of increasing longevity
Hallpike, Helen, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Van Der Heijden, Beatrice(2018). In: 9th Annual Faculty of Business Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business, 04 Jun 2018 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Impossible participants or impossible instructions? An eye-tracking investigation of an ego depletion paradigm
Riege, Anine, Henderson, Emma, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle(2018). In: 9th Annual Faculty of Business Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business, 04 Jun 2018 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Children’s interpretation of verbal probabilities: use of directionality and pragmatic cues.
Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie, Beck, Sarah R. and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle(2017). In: International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) 2017, 23-25 Mar 2017 :Vienna, Austria
Levels of engagement with vaccination impacts risk perception and vaccination - decisions in healthcare workers
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle(2016). In: Strategies to increase vaccine acceptance and uptake, 26-28 Sep 2016 :Les Pensières, Annecy, France
Touchy thinking: interactivity improves planning
Henderson, Emma, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2016). In: Third International Conference on Interactivity, Language and Cognition (CILC2016): the Tactility of Thinking and Talking, 29 Jun – 01 Jul 2016 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
The description-experience gap in risky choice framing
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Ramasubramanian, Madhuri(2016). In: 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2016): Recognizing and Representing Events, 10-13 Aug 2016 :Philadelphia, U.S.
Distributed Bayesian reasoning
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Abadie, Marlene(2011). In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 13 - 15 Apr 2011 :Oxford, U.K.
Distributed cognition and insight
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Weller, Anna(2011). In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 13 - 15 Apr 2011 :Oxford, U.K.
The role of representativeness and cognitive elaboration in judging the probability of a suspect's guilt
Almond, Louise, Alison, Laurence and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2010). In: 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 19 - 22 Nov 2010 :St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2010). In: Cognition in Flux: 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 11 - 14 Aug 2010 :Portland, U.S.
The meanings of verbal probabilities
Juanchich, Marie, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Mullet, Etienne(2010). In: Emerging Issues in Business and Law, 22 Jun 2010 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Feeding the mind's eye: unconscious deliberation needs visual information
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2009). In: LJDM seminar, 4 Nov 2009 :London, U.K.
Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid?
Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference, 01 - 03 Sep 2009 :Hatfield, U.K.
Distributed cognition in problem solving
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference, 01 - 03 Sep 2009 :Hatfield, U.K.
Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid?
Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: SPUDM 22 : Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, 23 - 27 Aug 2009 :Rovereto, Italy
Verbal probability choice, a story of contrast?
Juanchich, Marie, Teigen, Karl Halvor and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: SPUDM 22 : Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, 23 - 27 Aug 2009 :Rovereto, Italy
Are representativeness judgments automatic and rapid? The effect of time pressure on the conjunction fallacy
Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2009 :Amsterdam, Netherlands
How do speakers choose uncertainty phrases to express guilt probabilities?
Juanchich, Marie and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2009 :Amsterdam, Netherlands
A comparison of children and adults' judgements and decisions based on verbal uncertainty statements
Gourdon, Amélie and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2009 :Amsterdam, Netherlands
Communicating likelihood and managing face: can we say it is probable when we know it to be certain?
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: CogSci 2005 XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 21 - 23 Jul 2005 :Strea, Italy
Les roles des utilities, de la motivation, et de l'information numerique dans le raisonnement pseudo-diagnostique [Utility-driven information search in pseudodiagnostic reasoning]
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2009). In: Congres de la SFP : Psychologie at enjeux de societe [Annual Conference of the French Psychological Society], 17 - 19 Jun 2009 :Toulouse, France