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Paul Atkins
BA in Psychology (1st Class Hons, Macquarie University) ,

Master of Cognitive Science (UNSW)
PhD in Applied Psychology
(Cambridge University)
Associate Professor,
Crawford School of Economics and Government

 

 

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.

  • 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)
  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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
The Australian National University
Canberra 0200 ACT  Australia

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