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Research interests/expertise
- Leadership
- Organisational Behaviour
- Systems thinking
- Perspective Taking, Empathy and Wisdom in Organisations
- Stress Reduction
- Executive Coaching
- Emotional Intelligence
- Cognition and Complex Problem Solving
Current Projects
- ARC Linkage Grant “Leadership Development in High Stress Workplaces”
- PhD supervision for 4 students
- Executive coaching
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training
- Leadership development training
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Articles:
Abbott, G. N., Stening, B. W., Atkins, P. W. B., & Grant, A. M. (2006). Coaching Expatriate Managers for Success: Adding Value Beyond Training and Mentoring. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 44(3), 295-317.
Atkins, P. W. B. (2001). What happens when we relearn part of what we previously knew? Predictions and constraints for models of long-term memory. Psychological Research, 65, 202-215.
Atkins, P. W. B. (2006). Emotional Intelligence and Age: Why doesnt it go up? In C. Stough, D. H. Saklofske & K. Hansen (Eds.), Emotional Intelligence: International Symposium 2005 (pp. 41-50). Croydon: Tertiary Press.
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Atkins, P. W. B., & Baddeley, A. D. (1998). Working memory and naturalistic vocabulary learning. Applied Psycholinguistics, 19, 537-552.
Atkins, P. W. B., & Murre, J. M. J. (1998). Recovery of unrehearsed items in connectionist models. Connection Science, 10(2), 99-119.
- Atkins, P. W. B. & Wood, R. E. (2002). Self versus others' as predictors of assessment center ratings: Validation evidence for 360-feedback programs. Personnel Psychology, 55, 871-904. (This is one of the most highly cited journals in applied psychology)
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Atkins, P. W. B., Wood, R. E., & Rutgers, P. J. (2002). The effects of feedback format on dynamic decision making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88(2), 587-604. (This journal is in the FT40 list)
Berger, J. G., & Atkins, P. W. B. (submitted). Mapping complexity of mind: The subject-object interview in coaching. Submitted to International Coaching Psychology Review.
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Coltheart, M., Curtis, B., Atkins, P. W. B., & Haller, M. (1993). Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches. Psychological Review, 100(4), 589-608. (This was once the 16th most cited paper in the Web of Sciences “Psychology and Psychiatry” category).
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Parker, S. E., Atkins, P. W. B., & Axtell, C. M. (in press 2008). Building better work places through individual perspective taking: A fresh look at a fundamental human process International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 23.
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Wood, R. E., Atkins, P. W. B., & Bright, J. E. H. (1999). Bonuses, Goals and Instrumentality Effects. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84(5), 703-720. (This paper was voted by the APS as one of the 10 most influential papers to emerge from Australian Psychology. This journal is one of the FT40 list).
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Wood, R. E., Atkins, P. W. B., & Tabernero, C. (2000). Self-efficacy and strategy on complex tasks. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 49(3), 430-446.
Teaching
- MGMT7003 Organisational Behaviour
- POGO8056 People and Performance in Public Organisations
Contact Details
| Telephone: | +61 2 6125 8979 |
| Fax: | +61 2 6125 8448 |
| Email: | paul.atkins@anu.edu.au |
| Mailing address: | Crawford School of Economics and Government |
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