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Mike SMITHSON

Professor Mike SMITHSON
PhD

Professor [Deputy HoD & Graduate Program Convenor]

Email : Michael.Smithson@anu.edu.au
Phone : (02) 612 58356
Fax : (02) 612 50499

Office Location

Room 215, Department of Psychology (Building 39)

Mailing Address

Department of Psychology (Building 39)
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
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About Me
Research and Supervision Interests
Current Teaching
Research Students
Qualifications
Selected Publications

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Research and Supervision Interests

Ignorance and Uncertainty, Risk, Decision Making, Fuzzy Logic, Statistical Methods for Psychological Research, Social Dilemmas, Philosophy and Social Psychology of Science

Current Teaching

  • coordinator PSYC2009 ( Quantitative Methods in Psychology )
  • coordinator PSYC4005F ( Honours : Methodology )
Research Students

Gianfranco Giuntoli ( PhD ): Application of the capabilities framework to people living with HIV

Anthony Ryan ( PhD ): Water-consumption and temporal perception

Marcell Noja (PhD): Moral reasoning and ethical risk-taking

Carly Pymont (PhD): Mathematical cognition

Stephen Tang (PhD clinical): Indecision and narrative reasoning

Scarlet Bennett (PhD): Confidence
 
Michael Gurr (Honours): Partition effects in probability judgements

David Reeves (Honours): Temporal discounting

Arthur Sopena (Honours): Marginal racism

 

Qualifications

PhD Sociology, University of Oregon 1976

BsC Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College 1972

Selected Publications

Smithson, M. (accepted) Confidence interval. In M. Lovric (Ed.) International encyclopedia of statistical sciences. N.Y.: Springer.

Pushkarskaya, H., Smithson, M., Liu, X. and Joseph, J.E. (accepted) Neuroeconomics of Environmental Uncertainty and the Theory of Firm. In M. Day, A. Stanton, and I. Welpe (Eds.) Neuroeconomics and the Firm. Cheltenham UK: Elgar.

Smithson, M. (accepted) Uncertainty. In V.S. Ramachandran (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

Hájek, A. and Smithson, M. (accepted) Rationality and indeterminate probabilities. Synthese.

Smithson, M. (accepted) How many alternatives? Partitions pose problems for predictions and diagnoses. Social Epistemology.

Smithson, M. (in press). Ignorance and uncertainty. In V. A. Brown, J. Russell, and J. Harris (Eds). Tackling wicked problems: Using the transdisciplinary imagination. London: Earthscan.

Aimola-Davies, A., Davies, M., Ogden, J., Smithson, M. & White, R.C. (2009) "Cognitive and motivational factors in anosognosia." In T. Bayne & J. Fernandez (Eds.) Delusions and Self-Deception: Affective Influences on Belief-Formation. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press, 187-225.

Smithson, M. & Segale, C. (2009) "Partition priming in judgments of imprecise probabilities."Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3, 169-182.

Smithson, M. & Baker, C. (2008) “Risk Orientation, Loving and Liking in Long-Term Romantic Relationships.” Journal of Personal and Social Relationships, 25, 87-103.

Smithson, M. (2008). “Social theories of ignorance.” In R. Proctor and L. Schiebinger (Eds.), Agnotology: The cultural production of ignorance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Smithson, M. (2008). “The many faces and masks of uncertainty.” In Bammer, G. and Smithson, M. (Eds.) Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Earthscan, pp. 13-26.

Smithson, M. (2008). “Psychology’s ambivalent view of uncertainty.” In Bammer, G. and Smithson, M. (Eds.) Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Earthscan, pp. 205-218.

Bammer, G. & Smithson, M. (2008). “The nature of uncertainty.” In Bammer, G. and Smithson, M. (Eds.) Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Earthscan, pp.289-304.

Smithson, M. & Bammer, G. (2008). “Uncertainty metaphors, motives and morals.” In Bammer, G. and Smithson, M. (Eds.) Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Earthscan, pp.305-320.

Smithson, M. & Bammer, G. (2008). “Coping and managing under uncertainty.” In Bammer, G. and Smithson, M. (Eds.) Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. London: Earthscan, pp. 321-333.

Smithson, M., Gracik, L. & Deady, S. (2007). “Guilty, not guilty, or … ? Multiple verdict options in jury verdict choices.” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 481-498.

Smithson, M. (2006). A little (more) knowledge: Comments on “Changes in Canadian Heroin Supply Coinciding with the Australian Heroin Shortage.” Addiction, 101, 622-623.

Smithson, M. (2006). Scale construction from a decisional viewpoint. Minds and Machines, 16, 339-364.

Smithson, M. & Verkuilen, J. (2006). A better lemon-squeezer? Maximum likelihood regression with beta-distributed dependent variables. Psychological Methods, 11, 54-71.

Smithson, M. & Verkuilen, J. (2006). Fuzzy Set Theory. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Smithson, M., McFadden, M., Mwesigye, S.-E., & Casey. T. (2004). The impact of illicit drug supply reduction on health and social outcomes: The heroin shortage in the A.C.T. Addiction, 98, 340-348.

Smithson, M.J. (2003). Confidence Intervals, Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series, No. 140. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.