Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences School of Behavioural Science

Emeritus Professor Alexander Wearing

MA PhD

Professor

Contact details:

email: ajwe AT unimelb.edu.au

 

telephone: +61 3 8344 7038  

 

Research Interests:


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

 

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