Emeritus Professor Alexander Wearing

MA PhD

Emeritus Professor

Contact details:

Research Interests:

• Cognitive Psychology
  • complex decision making
• Social & Organisational Psychology
  • policy design and evaluation
  • economic psychology
  • psychological wellbeing

Recent Funded Research:

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:

Alexandra Stol