Skali, A., Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Stadelmann, D., Torgler, B., & Whyte, S. (2026). The beauty premium in politics? Perceptions and political behavior. European Journal of Political Economy, 93, 102821. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Papers, reports & public writing
Publications and public writing
Journal articles, chapters, reports and other writing. For the most up-to-date publication record, see my Google Scholar (opens in a new tab), ORCID (opens in a new tab), or QUT (opens in a new tab) profiles.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Hugo, E., Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Torgler, B., & Whyte, S. (2026). Economic and legal influences on sex tourism. Tourism Economics. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Macintyre, A., & Torgler, B. (2025). Artificial intelligence and big data in sustainable entrepreneurship. Journal of Economic Surveys, 39(1), 103–145. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Schreyer, D., Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Schmidt, S. L., & Torgler, B. (2025). Using reminders with reward opportunities to reduce spectator no-show behavior. Journal of Business Research, 193, 115318. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Dao, B., Torgler, B., Tran, S., & Zimbatu, A. (2025). Comparing human and synthetic data in service research: Using augmented language models to study service failures and recoveries. Journal of Services Marketing, 39(1), 36–52. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Zimbatu, A., Bickley, S. J., & Whyte, S. (2025). Exploring past and future fluency of temporal landmarks under reduced agency. Scientific Reports, 15, 15920. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2023). Cognitive architectures for artificial intelligence ethics. AI & Society, 38(2), 501–519. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., & Torgler, B. (2022). Artificial intelligence in the field of economics. Scientometrics, 127(4), 2055–2084. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Schmidt, S. L., & Torgler, B. (2021). Quantum-sapiens: The quantum bases for human expertise, knowledge, and problem-solving. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 33(11), 1290–1302. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Skali, A., Stadelmann, D., & Torgler, B. (2021). How does globalization affect COVID-19 responses? Globalization and Health, 17, 57. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Brumpton, M., Chan, H. F., Colthurst, R., & Torgler, B. (2021). The stabilizing effect of social distancing: Cross-country differences in financial-market responses to COVID-19 pandemic policies. Research in International Business and Finance, 58, 101471. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2021). A systematic approach to public health: Novel application of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System to public health and COVID-19. Safety Science, 140, 105312. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Scholarly book chapters and encyclopedia entries
Bickley, S. J. (2026). Language models as tools of/in/by/for thought. In J. Liebowitz & P. McAlindon (Eds.), Digital Transformation: Accelerating Organizational Intelligence. World Scientific Publishing, pp. 121–144. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2025). Complexity and behavioural economics: Exploring dynamic systems and adaptive agents. Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2025). Sports as a mirror of society: A behavioural economics laboratory. Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Schmidt, S. L., & Torgler, B. (2024). Quantum-sapiens: The quantum bases for human expertise, knowledge, and problem-solving. In D. La Torre & F. S. Khan (Eds.), Unlocking Quantum Information Technology: Opportunities for Business and Management (pp. 13–26). Routledge. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2023). Behavioural economics: What have we missed? Exploring “classical” behavioural economics roots in AI, cognitive psychology and complexity theory. In M. Altman (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Behavioural Economics (pp. 32–59). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI (opens in a new tab).
Policy, government, industry and technical reports
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2026). AI can find the flaws. But who will pay to fix them? BITA Policy Paper No. 10. PDF (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., & Whyte, S. (2025). Cognitive, Social and Economic Factors Influencing Adoption of Generative AI by Workers. Future Skills Organisation. Project details and published report (opens in a new tab).
Galliford, P., Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., & Torgler, B. (2024). The Biases and Frames Influencing Purchase Behaviour in Financial Services. Suncorp Insurance Australia.
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Dao, B., Torgler, B., & Tran, S. (2023). SurveyLM: A Platform to Explore Emerging Value Perspectives in Augmented Language Models’ Behaviours. Panalogy Lab Technical Report 2023-001. arXiv (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Dulleck, U., & Torgler, B. (2023). Drivers of AI Investment. IP Australia Economics Research Paper Series, No. 13. Published report (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Dulleck, U., & Torgler, B. (2022). Data Evaluation Report: Mapping the (In)equalities of Human Mobility. Queensland Government Mobility Data Project, Theme 2. Queensland University of Technology.
Selected preprints and working papers
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2026). The administrative burden of responsible AI and governed autonomy in research organisations. BITA Working Paper No. 27. PDF (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Mashhady, A., Tran, S., & Torgler, B. (2026). Cultural alignment in AI does not imply population fidelity. BITA Working Paper No. 26. PDF (opens in a new tab).
McDonnell, K. J., Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Torgler, B., & Whyte, S. (2026). Human values and the uneven cultural alignment of artificial intelligence. BITA Working Paper No. 25. PDF (opens in a new tab).
Chan, H. F., Yang, S., Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2026). Designing online research to deter agentic survey fraud. BITA Working Paper No. 24. PDF (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Stadelmann, D., Tani, M., & Torgler, B. (2026). Context-Sensitive Resource Allocation: Evidence from Sequential Vignettes Using Artificial Agents. BITA Working Paper No. 23. PDF (opens in a new tab).
Richardson, T., Bickley, S. J., Chan, H. F., Torgler, B., Yasmin, S., & Pawlowski, T. (2026). Emotional driving: Reference-dependent emotions and risky driving behavior after sporting events. arXiv (opens in a new tab).
Bickley, S. J., & Torgler, B. (2025). Theory of Exchange: Moving Beyond an Exchange Between Two Individuals. BITA Working Paper No. 10. PDF (opens in a new tab).
Doctoral thesis
Bickley, S. J. (2023). Bridging Complexity and Behavioural Economics: The Constrained Methods Matrix. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology. DOI (opens in a new tab).
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For a wider audience
Public writing
Articles about AI, behaviour and the environment.
The Mandarin · 3 November 2026 · Opinion
AI can find the flaws. But who will pay to fix them? (opens in a new tab)
We argue that faster, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery needs sustained investment in software maintenance, responsible disclosure and deployment. This opinion article builds on our BITA Policy Paper No. 10, published on 28 October 2026.
The Conversation · 9 July 2026
AI can predict how you’ll respond to a survey. But that’s not the same as understanding you (opens in a new tab)
In this invited article, I discuss what AI-generated survey responses can tell us about people, and why researchers still need human evidence.
Read the article (opens in a new tab)4,982reads as at
6th by reads among QUT-authored articles during the July 2026 reporting period.
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Nature research community · 21 April 2020
Lessons for the climate crisis from the coronavirus (opens in a new tab)
With Alison Macintyre and Benno Torgler.
Nature research community · 22 April 2020
Sink or swim: COVID-19 and the marine environment (opens in a new tab)
With Alison Macintyre and Benno Torgler.
