Paul Webley

Professor Paul Webley is Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Psychology and former President of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology.

He received his BSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. After a brief period at the University of Southampton he moved to the University of Exeter, where he remained for 26 years, rising from Lecturer to Professor of Economic Psychology. He was Head of the Department and School of Psychology from 1993 to 2003, and from 2003 to 2006 he was one of the University's Deputy Vice-Chancellors (Senior Deputy VC, 2005-6). His major research interests are in economic socialization, the psychology of money, and the psychology of taxation, though he has also worked on environmental psychology and the general issue of the social psychology underlying rule compliance.

Professor Webley is married, has three children, and lives in both London and Exeter.

Publications

Professor Webley has written 10 books, 58 chapters in books, 68 journal articles, and more than a dozen papers for newsletters, magazines, and miscellaneous professional and academic publications. A full list is available here:

• Publications

Notable publications, illustrating the range of Webley's research, include:

• Lea, S.E.G., Tarpy, R.M., & Webley, P. (1987). The Individual in the Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Webley, P., Robben, H.S.J., Elffers, H., & Hessing, D.J. (1991). Tax evasion: an experimental approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bonn, M.; Webley, Paul (2000). "South African children's understanding of money and banking". British Journal of Developmental Psychology 18 (2): 269–278. doi:10.1348/026151000165689. 
• Webley, P.; Siviter, C (2000). "Why do some owners allow their dogs to foul the pavement? The social psychology of a minor rule infraction". Journal of Applied Social Psychology 7: 1453–1462. 
• Webley, P., Burgoyne, C.B., Lea, S.E.G. & Young, B.M. (2001). The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life. Hove: Psychology Press.
• Webley, Paul; Nyhus, E.K. (2001). "Life-cycle and dispositional routes into problem debt". British Journal of Psychology 92 (3): 423–446. doi:10.1348/000712601162275. 
• Webley, P.; Lewis, A.; Mackenzie, C.R. (2001). "Commitment among ethical investors: an experimental approach". Journal of Economic Psychology 22: 27–42. doi:10.1016/S0167-4870(00)00035-0. 
• Lea, S.E.G.; Webley, P. (2006). "Money as tool, money as drug". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 161–209. 

External links

• Donald MacLeod, 'SOAS appoints new director', The Guardian (7 February 2006)