Publications

Doctoral Thesis — QUT, 2025

Pistis: Development of a Holistic Theory of Trust
Doctor of Philosophy  ·  Supervisors: Peter Bruza & Andrew Gibson  ·  Queensland University of Technology
Develops a holistic theory of trust from its most primordial, intuitive form, drawing on quantum cognition, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology. The theory traces trust from its ancient roots in Greek thought through to its expression in human-AI interaction and off-Earth habitation contexts. Termed Pistis, from the ancient Greek for trust, faith, and reliance.
Title Cited by Year

Contextuality and context-sensitivity in probabilistic models of cognition

Bruza, P. D., Fell, L., Hoyte, P., Dehdashti, S., Obeid, A., Gibson, A., & Moreira, C. (2023). Cognitive Psychology, 140, 101529.

512023

Design insights into embedding virtual reality content into life skills training for people with intellectual disability

Brown, R., Sitbon, L., Fell, L., Koplick, S., Beaumont, C., & Brereton, M. (2016). Proceedings of OzCHI 2016 (pp. 581-585).

322016

Trust and COVID-19: Implications for interpersonal, workplace, institutional, and information-based trust

Fell, L. (2020). Digital Government: Research and Practice, 2(1), 1-5.

312020

Human Information Interaction and the Cognitive Predicting Theory of Trust

Fell, L., Gibson, A., Bruza, P., & Hoyte, P. (2020). Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 145-152).

282020

Turning heads: Designing engaging immersive video experiences to support people with intellectual disability when learning everyday living skills

Sitbon, L., Brown, R., & Fell, L. (2019). 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 171-182).

252019

A quantum model of trust calibration in human-AI interactions

Roeder, L., Hoyte, P., van der Meer, J., Fell, L., Johnston, P., Kerr, G., & Bruza, P. (2023). Entropy, 25(9), 1362.

192023

Engaging the Abilities of Participants with Intellectual Disability in IIR Research

Sitbon, L., Favre, B., Brereton, M., Koplick, S., & Fell, L. (2020). Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 103-112).

192020

Quantum-like structure in multidimensional relevance judgements

Uprety, S., Tiwari, P., Dehdashti, S., Fell, L., Song, D., Bruza, P., & Melucci, M. (2020). European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp. 728-742). Springer.

182020

An experimental protocol to derive and validate a quantum model of decision-making

Fell, L., Dehdashti, S., Bruza, P., & Pinto Moreira, C. (2019). Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1724-1730).

182019

Towards a quantum-like cognitive architecture for decision-making

Moreira, C., Fell, L., Dehdashti, S., Bruza, P., & Wichert, A. (2019). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43.

162019

Towards universal search design

Sitbon, L., Fell, L., Poxon, D., Zhang, J., & Geva, S. (2014). Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (pp. 109-112).

132014

On the irrationality of being in two minds

Dehdashti, S., Fell, L., & Bruza, P. (2020). Entropy, 22(2), 174.

122020

Modelling dynamic interactions between relevance dimensions

Uprety, S., Dehdashti, S., Fell, L., Bruza, P., & Song, D. (2019). Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (pp. 35-42).

82019

Are decisions of image trustworthiness contextual? A pilot study [symposium version]

Bruza, P. D., & Fell, L. (2018). International Symposium on Quantum Interaction (pp. 39-50). Springer.

52018

Bistable probabilities: a unified framework for studying rationality and irrationality in classical and quantum games

Dehdashti, S., Fell, L., Karim Obeid, A., Moreira, C., & Bruza, P. (2020). Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 476(2237), 20190839.

42020

Proto-trust and trust attribution: a theory of intuitive, affective forms of trust and the means by which trust decisions are made

Fell, L. E., & Bruza, P. (2022). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44(44).

32022

The cognitive decision space of trust: an exploratory study of image trustworthiness and the propensity to deceive

Fell, L., Bruza, P. D., Devitt, S. K., Oliver, G., Gradwell, M., & Partridge, H. (2016).

32016

Are decisions of image trustworthiness contextual? A pilot study [QI 2019 conference version]

Bruza, P. D., & Fell, L. (2019). Proceedings of the Quantum Interaction: 11th International Conference. Springer.

12019

Do you trust this image? Exploring the subjectivity of image trustworthiness from a cognitive perspective

Bruza, P. D., Fell, L., Devitt, S. K., Oliver, G., Gradwell, M., & Partridge, H. L. (2017).

12017

Immersive digital experiences to ease people with intellectual disability into new physical spaces

Sitbon, L., Brown, R., Fell, L., Koplick, S., & Beaumont, C. (2017). Workshop at OZCHI 2017.

-2017

Trust in Extreme Environments: Insights from a Simulated Lunar Mission

Fell, L. (2025). Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025), Sydney.

-2025

Democratising Space Science: The Australian Lunar Experiment Promoting Horticulture (ALEPH)

Fell, L. (2025). Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025), Sydney.

-2025

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