Professor Philippa Pattison

B.Sc (Hons) PhD [Melbourne]

Professor and President, Academic Board

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Pip Pattison is a quantitative psychologist interested in the development of mathematical models for social and behavioural phenomena, particularly for social networks and network-based social processes. Her current research focuses on the development of dynamic network-based stochastic models for social processes, and on applications of these models to a diverse range of phenomena, including: the epidemiology of mental health; organizational design; the emergence of markets in 15 th century Florence; river management; and the spread of communicable diseases.

Recent keynote talks have included the 2002 International Conference on Social Networks, the 2003 Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference, and the 2004 CSIRO Workshop on Complex Systems Science. From 2003-2004, Pip served as an Advisory Panel Member for the National Science Foundation's program on Measurement, Methodology and Statistics. She is currently President of the Academic Board at the University of Melbourne.

Research Interests:

• Quantitative Psychology
• Social & Organisational Psychology
• Social Networks Lab

Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:

• 1977 RIAS Fellow, Harvard University
• University of Melbourne Special Thesis Award
• 1988 Early Career Award, Australian Psychological Society
• Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• 2002 Simmel Award, International Network for Social Network Analysis

Recent Funded Research:

Selected papers are available for download through http://www.sna.unimelb.edu.au/publications/publications.html

Book:

Breiger, R. L., Carley, K. M., and Pattison, P. E. (Eds.) (2003). Social Network Models: Workshop Summary and Papers. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. (ISBN 0-309-08952-2)

Book Chapters:

Pattison, P. E., & Wasserman, S.  (2002).  Multivariate random graph distributions: applications to social network analysis.  In J. Hagberg (Ed.), Contributions to Social Network Analysis, Information Theory and Other Topics in Statistics: A Festschrift in Honour of Ove Frank on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. (pp. 74-100).  Stockholm: University of Stockholm. (ISBN 91-7265-520-8)

Wasserman, S., & Pattison, P. E. (2003).  Social network analysis.  In Lewis-Beck, M. S., Bryman, A., & Liao, T. F. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods.  Oregon, Ohio: Sage Publications. (ISBN 0761923632)

Robins, G. L., & Pattison, P. E. (2005).  Interdependencies and social processes: dependence graphs and generalized dependence structures.  In P. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and methods in social network analysis (pp.192-214).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Koehly, L., & Pattison, P. E. (2005).  Random graph models for social networks: multiple relations or multiple raters.  In P. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and methods in social network analysis (Pp.162-191).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Pattison, P. E., & Robins, G. L. (forthcoming).  Probabilistic network theory.  In Rudas, T (Ed.), Handbook of Probability Theory with Applications.  Sage Publications.

Pattison, P. E., Robins, G. L., & Kashima, Y. (forthcoming).  Psychology of social networks.  In Blume, L., & Durlauf, S. (Eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, (second edition).  Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Edwards, J., Jackson, H. J., & Pattison, P. E. (2002)  Emotion recogntion via facial expression and affective prosody in schizophrenia: a methodological review.  Clinical Psychology Review, 22, 789-832.  (Erratum: pp. 1267-1285).

Lee, J. K., Ward, T., Jackson, H. J., & Pattison, P. E. (2002). Developmental risk factors for sexual offending.  Child Abuse and Neglect, 26, 73-92.
Pattison, P. E., & Breiger, R. L. (2002).  Lattices and dimensional representations: matrix decompositions and ordering structures.  Social Networks, 24, 423-444.

Pattison, P. E., & Robins, G. L. (2002).  Neighbourhood-based models for social networks.  Sociological Methodology, 32, 300-337.

Canobi, K. C., Reeve, R. A., & Pattison, P. E. (2002).  Young children’s understanding of addition concepts.  Educational Psychology, 22, 513-532.

Schofield, P. E., Pattison, P. E., Hill, D. J., & Borland, R. (2003).  Youth culture and smoking: integrating social group processes and individual cognitive processes in a model of health-related behaviours.  Journal of Health Psychology, 8, 291-306.

Canobi, K., Reeve, R., & Pattison, P. E. (2003).  Patterns of knowledge in children’s addition.  Developmental Psychology, 39, 521-534.

Creamer, M., O’Donnell, M., & Pattison, P. (2004). The relationship between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in severely injured trauma surviviors.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42, 315-328.

O’Donnell, M., Creamer, M., Pattison, P., & Atkin, C. (2004). Psychiatric morbidity following injury.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 507-514.

Lomi, A., & Pattison, P. (2004). Introduction to the CMOT Special Issue on Mathematical representations and models for the analysis of social networks within and between organizations.  Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 10, 5-15.

O’Donnell, M., Creamer, M., & Pattison, P. (2004). PTSD and depression following trauma: Understanding comorbidity.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1390-1396.

Robins, G., Pattison, P., & Woolcock, J. (2004). Missing data in networks: exponential random graph (p*) models for networks with non-resondents.  Social Networks, 26, 257-283.

Murray, G., Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Komiti, A., Hodgins, G., Pattison, P., Humphreys, J., & Robins, G. (2004). Rurality and mental health: the role of accessibility.  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 629-634.

Smith, A. M. A., Grierson, J., Wain, D., Pitts, M., & Pattison, P. (2004).  Associations between the sexual behaviour of men who have sex with men and the structure and composition of their social networks.  Sexually Transmitted Infections, 80, 455-458.

Pattison, P. E., & Robins, G. L. (2004).  Building models for social space: Neighbourhood-based models for social networks and affiliation structures.  Mathematics and Social Sciences, 168, 11-30. 

Fraser, C.,Jackson, H., Judd, F., Komiti, A., Robins, G., Murray, G., Humphreys, J., Pattison, P., & Hodgins, G. (2005).  Changing Places: The impact of rural restructuring on mental health in Australia, Journal of Health and Place, 11, 157-171.

Robins, G.L., Pattison, P., & Woolcock, J. (2005). Small and other worlds: Global network structures from local processes. American Journal of Sociology, 110, 894-936.

Creamer, M., O’Donnell, M., & Pattison, P. (2005). Amnesia, traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder: A methodological inquiry.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1383-1389.

Wilson, S. J., Bladin, P. F., Saling, M. M., & Pattison, P. E. (2005). Characterising psychosocial outcome trajectories following seizure surgery.  Epilepsy and Behaviour, 6, 570-580.

Murray, G., Judd, F., Jackson, H. J., Fraser, C., Komiti, A., Pattison, P. E., Humphrey, J., & Robins, G. (2005). The five factor model and accessibility/remoteness: novel evidence for person-environment interaction.  Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 715-725.

*Wong, L. H., Pattison, P. & Robins, G. (2006). A spatial model for social networks.  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 360, 99-120. 

Marziano, V., Ward, T., Beech, A., & Pattison, P. (2006).  Identification of five fundamental implicit theories underlying cognitive distortions in child abusers: A preliminary study.  Psychology, Crime and Law, 12, 97-105.

*Smith, A. M. A., Grierson, J., Wain, D., Pitts, M., & Pattison, P. (2006).  Interpersonal and social network influences on gay men’s communication about unprotected sex.  International Journal of STDs and AIDS, 17, 267-270.

March, E. G., & Pattison, P. E. (2006).  Semantic verbal fluency in Alzheimer’s disease: approaches beyond the traditional scoring system.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 549-566.

*Lomi, A., & Pattison, P. (2006). Manufacturing relations: An empirical study of the organization of production across multiple networks.  Organization Science, 17, 313-332

March, E. G., Wales, R., & Pattison, P. (2006).  The uses of nouns and deixis in discourse production in Alzheimer’s disease.  Journal of Neurolinguistics, 19, 311-340.

*Snijders, T., Pattison, P., Robins, G. , and Handcock, M. (2006). New specifications for exponential random graph models.  Sociological Methodology, 36, 99-153.
Smith, A., Grierson, J., Pitts, M., & Pattison, P. (in press).  Individual characteristics are less important than event characteristics in predicting protected and unprotected anal intercourse among gay and bisexual men in Melbourne, Australia.  Sexually Transmitted Infections.  Accepted May 2006.

Robins, G., Pattison, P., Kalish, Y., & Lusher, D. (in press). An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks. Social Networks. Accepted May 2006.

Robins, G.L., Snijders, T.A.B., Wang, P., Handcock, M., & Pattison,P. (in press). Recent developments in exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks.  Social Networks. Accepted May 2006   

PhD Students under Supervision:

• Penny Mitchell (School of Population Health)
• Mark Lutschini (Centre for the Study of Health and Society)
• Galina Daraganova
• Sarah Buckley

• Jenny Anderson