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Peter Ayton

@thruthal.bsky.social
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Professor of Decision Research, University of Leeds.

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Peter Ayton @thruthal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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What prospect theory predicts for football teams chasing the Premier League title | Letters
Letter: Prof Peter Ayton welcomes science in sporting commentary, but wants to set the record straight
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Peter Ayton @thruthal.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
“Water is piquing everyone’s interest and we’re hoping it’s about to really take off.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Meet the water sommeliers: they believe H₂O can rival wine – but would you pay £19 a bottle?
A restaurant in the English county of Cheshire has launched a water menu, as have a number of US establishments. Is it really possible, though, to tell one terroir from another?
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Peter Ayton @thruthal.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Other sleds are available - and at much lower prices. So why is this one so special? A spectacular demonstration of the effects of magical contagion www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
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Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane sells at auction for £11m
Item donated by a director who was given it during a studio clearout becomes second most valuable piece of movie memorabilia
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Peter Ayton @thruthal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In practice matches elite tennis players don’t trust each other to make honest line calls….. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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‘I’ve been hooked’: scourge of shady line calls baffles Raducanu and others
In the world of elite tennis, not everyone believes their rivals can be trusted to make fair calls in umpire-free practice sessions
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Peter Ayton @thruthal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Daniel Kahneman remembered by Daniel J Levitin
The neuroscientist celebrates the Nobel-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow – a psychologist whose elegance of thought helped reveal the foibles of human reasoning
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Peter Ayton @thruthal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The pitiful allure of the single banana www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Shoppers can be made to feel sorry for single bananas, study finds
Researchers say supermarket customers are more likely to buy a piece of fruit labelled as a ‘sad single’
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Peter Ayton @thruthal.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
My latest - substantially plagiarized - publication sadly (but perhaps fittingly) rendered drab by editorial changes. A “flourish-ectomy”- has reduced my stylish submission to the flat leaden inelegant embarrassment you see here) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Private sector offers to the NHS must beat ‘one for the price of two’ deal | Brief letters
Brief letters: Streeting’s scepticism | The force of female artists | Accordion jokes | Defining ‘scientific racism’ | Tesco’s solar energy drive
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