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PROF ALEXANDER WEARING



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: Honorary (Professor Emeritus)
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/WearingA.html
Work: 8344 7038
Fax: 9347 6618
Room: 1119
Level: 11
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts Adelaide University
Doctor of Philosophy University of Illinois

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPSS)
Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPSS)

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
INFORMATION & SITUATION AWARENESS-THE EFFECT OF LEVEL OF DETAIL OF INFORMATION ON SITUATION AWARENESS, WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE IN A WORK GROUP RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 01/01/2004
METACOGNITION AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS IN DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING Chief Investigator US DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 01/11/2004
METACOGNITION IN COMMAND AND CONTROL Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 08/02/2007
ASSESSMENT OF MEASURES OF DECISION MAKING STYLES Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 22/12/2008
ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOMETRIC INSTRUMENTS TO MEASURE DECISION MAKING AND META-COGNITION STYLES AND THEIR ROLE IN SIMULATION FOR EDUCATION: PHASE 2 Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 29/09/2009
RESEARCH AGREEMENT- CROSS NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION Chief Investigator INTERNATIONAL SURVEY RESEARCH LLC

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Big boys don't cry: an investigation of stoicism and its mental health outcomes
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Personality and Individual Differences
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1369-1381
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Ceremonies of the whole: does social participation moderate the mood consequences of neuroticism?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 173-180
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  • Mental health problems in rural contexts: what are the barriers to seeking help from professional providers?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Psychologist
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 147-160
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Decision making effectiveness in wildfire incident management teams
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 27-37
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  • Do Australian taxation staff and compliant taxpayers identify with tax from the same perspective, or are there significant degrees of separation?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Australian Taxation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 119-171
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  • Shared subjective views, intent to cooperate and tax compliance: Similarities between Australian taxpayers and tax officers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Economic Psychology
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 502-517
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • "More Is Better?": A Bias Toward Overuse of Resources in Naturalistic Decision-Making Settings
    Year: 2005
    Book: How Professionals Make Decisions
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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  • How expertise is applied in real-world dynamic environments: head-mounted video and cued recall as a methodology for studying routines of decision making
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Routines of Decision Making
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • "More Is Better?": A Bias Toward Overuse of Resources in Naturalistic Decision-Making Settings
    Year: 2004
    Book: How Professionals Make Decisions
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Command style and team performance in dynamic decision-making tasks.
    Year: 2003
    Book: Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research.
    Publisher: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Tax related behaviours, beliefs, attitudes and values and taxpayer compliance in Australia.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Australian Taxation
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 132-165
    Publisher: Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University
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  • Taxation agents and taxpayer compliance.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Australian Taxation
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 166-200
    Publisher: Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University
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  • The role of genes in tobacco smoking during adolescence and young adulthood: a multivariate behaviour genetic investigation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 1087-1100
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstroke)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Better ways of breeding Lizards: simulating three strategies for managing a multistage investment decision task
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Risk, Decision and Policy
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 285-308
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Finding a place in history: some reflections on a talk given by egon brunswik
    Year: 2001
    Book: The essential brunswik
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Reports

  • Human decision making in complex systems
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Australian Defence Force
    Publisher: Australian Defence Force(Canberra)
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  • The determinants of Australian personal taxpayers' compliance
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Australian Tax Office
    Publisher: Australian Tax Office(Canberra)
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