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Lewis, Alan
Professor
Departement of Psychology
University of Bath
Phone +44 (0) 1225 38 3070
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E-mail A.Lewis@bath.ac.uk
Web www.bath.ac.uk

Visiting address
Room 2S 1.17, Department of Psychology,
University of Bath, BATH, BA2 7AY,
United Kingdom
Alan Lewis is working in the BISI programme as a project leader for Project C: Institutional investors’ decision making: structure and process.

Alan Lewis’s research interests are:

  • Moral issues in the market place: ethical and green investing
  • The Cashless Economy and attitudes towards financial services
  • Environmental attitudes and household energy consumption
  • Fiscal Psychology
  • Lay explanations of the economy including: wealth, poverty, unemployment, saving and debt.

Selected publications:
a) Books
Lewis, A. 2002. Morals, Markets and Money: Ethical, green and socially responsible investing. Prentice Hall/Financial Times. London and New York.
Lewis, A., Webley, P. and Furnham, A. 1995. The New Economic Mind, Pearson: London and New York.
Lewis, A. and Warneryd, K-E.( eds ). 1994. Ethics and Economic Affairs , Routledge: London and New York .
Furnham, A. and Lewis, A.  1986. The Economic Mind: The Social Psychology of Economic Behaviour, Wheatsheaf: Brighton/St Martin's: New York

b) Journal Articles and Contributions to Books
Cullis, J.,Jones, P. & Lewis, A. “Ethical investing: Where are we now?” In Altman, M (Ed.) Handbook of Behavioural Economics  M.E.Sharpe. New York (forthcoming ,2006).
Lewis,A & Scott,A. " A study of economic socialization: Financial practices in the home and the preferred role of schools among parents with children under 16". Citizenship, Social and Economics Education (2003) 5: 3, 138-147.
Lewis,A. "Good money, bad money: The case of socially responsible investment in the U.K." World Futures (2001) 56, 399-408
Lewis, A. "A focus group study of the motivation to invest: 'ethical/green' and 'ordinary' investors compared ."  Journal of Socio-Economics (2001) 30: 2.
Webley, P. Lewis, A. and Mackenzie, C. "Commitment among ethical investors: An experimental approach." Journal of Economic Psychology (2001) 22: 1, 27-42
Lewis, A. and Mackenzie C. "Morals, Motives and Money: The case of U.K. ethical investing"
Human Relations (2000) 53: 2, 179-191.