Matthew Browne

Matthew Browne is a Professor of Psychology at Central Queensland University, Australia. He completed a PhD in psychophysiological signal processing in 2002, and has worked as a research scientist for the CSIRO and the Fraunhofer Institute (Germany’s equivalent national research body) Institute for Autonomous Systems. He currently primarily does research on addiction, but also looks at factors leading to non-evidence-based beliefs, particularly in health and religion. With Chris Kavanagh, he co-hosts ‘Decoding the Gurus’, a podcast where they explore the persuasive techniques used by the contemporary crop of public intellectuals.