Emeritus Professor Alexander Wearing
MA PhD
Professor
Contact details:
| email: ajwe AT unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 8344 7038 |
Research Interests:
- Cognitive Psychology
- complex decision making
- Social & Organisational Psychology
- policy design and evaluation
- economic psychology
- psychological wellbeing
Recent Funded Research:
| Project: | Safety in Behaviour and Decision Making |
| Year: | 2003–2008 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre |
| Administered by: | LaTrobe University |
| Project: | Information and Situation Awareness: The Effect of Level of Detail of Information on Situation Awareness, Workload, and Performance in a Work Group Resource Management Task |
| Year: | 2003–2004 |
| Funded by: | Defence Science Technology Organisation |
| Project: | Uncertainty, Error, and Performance in Multiperson Dynamic Decision-Making Tasks |
| Year: | 2000–2002 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council Large Project Grant |
| Administered by: | LaTrobe University |
| Project: | Human Decision-Making in Complex Systems |
| Year: | 1998–1999 |
| Funded by: | Defence Science Technology Organisation |
| Project: | Enhancing Emergency Management Decision Making at Large Scale Incidents |
| Year: | 1998–1999 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council Strategic Partnership with Industry - Research & Training Grant |
| Administered by: | LaTrobe University |
Selected Publications:
Book Chapters
Hart, P.M. & Wearing, A.J. (2000). "Using Employee Opinion Surveys to Identify Control Mechanisms in Organisations". In Perrig, W. & Grob, A. (Eds) Control of Human Behaviour, Mental Processes and Consciousness. Mahweh, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 519-540.
Niemirowski, P. & Wearing, A.J. (2001) "Thirty Years of Tax Compliance Research: Of What Use is it to the AT O?".In Walpole, M. & Evans, C. (Eds) Tax Administration in the 21st Century. St Leonards: Prospect Media 199-214.
Omodei, M.M., Wearing, A.J., McLennan, J., Elliott, G.C., & Clancy, J.M. (in press). "More is Better? Problems of Self Regulation in Naturalistic Decision Making Settings", in Montgomery, H., Lipshitz, R., Brehmer, B. (Eds.). Naturalistic Decision Making.
Clancy, J.M., Elliott, G.C., Ley, T., McLennan, J., Omodei, M.M., Thorsteinsson, E.B., & Wearing, A.J. (in press). "Command Style and Team Performance in Dynamic Decision Making Tasks", in Schneider, S., & Shanteau, J. (Eds.). Individual Differences in Decision Making.
Clancy, J.M., Elliott, G.C., Ley, T., Omodei, M.M., Wearing, A.J., McLennan, J.P., & Thorsteinsson (in press). "Command Style and Team Performance in a Dynamic Decision Making Task", In S. Schneider & J. Shanteau (Eds.). Emerging Perspectives in Decision Research.
Refereed Journal Articles
Huber, O. & Wearing, A.J. (2002) "Better Ways of Breeding Lizards: Simulating Three Strategies for Managing a Multistage Investment Decision Task", Risk, Decision and Policy, 7, 285-308.
PhD Students under Supervision:
Yu Zhao, Alexandra Stol