Dr Don Hine
Associate Professor and Acting Head of School, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
Ph.D. University of Victoria, M.A. University of Victoria, B.Sc. University of Alberta
Contact
| Email: | dhine@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Psychology (S6) Room 7 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2731 (or +61 2 6773 2731 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3820 |
Areas of Teaching
PSYC 302 Advanced Research Methods and Statistics
PSYC 401H Reading course: Psychology and Environmental Problems
Research interests
My primary research area is human judgment and decision-making. I have conducted numerous studies on cognitive factors (expectancies, mental models, risk perceptions) that guide decisions related to aggression, smoking, alcohol use, and anti-poverty activism. I am particularly interested in dual process models that suggest human behaviour is controlled by two distinct information-processing systems: (1) an experiential system that is predominantly preconscious, automatic, and driven by emotion, and (2) a rational system that is conscious, effortful and logic-based. Much of my most recent research has involved applying the dual process perspective to problem behaviour exhibited during adolescence.
I also conduct research in the area of environmental psychology. This work focuses on understanding psychological factors that underlie environmental problems such as resource over-consumption, global warming, and air pollution. I am particularly interested in identifying strategies to help people change their destructive patterns of behaviour into more environmentally sustainable ones.
Representative Publications
Phillips, W., Hine, D.W., & Marks, A. D. G. (in press). Impulsivity and adolescent alcohol use: A dual process perspective. Personality and Individual Differences.
Hine, D. W. Marks, A. D. G. & O’Neil, G. (2009). Smoking cessation in adults: A dual process perspective. Addiction Research and Theory, 17, 220-229.
Rooke, S., Hine, D.W., & Thorsteinsson, E.B. (2008). Implicit cognition and substance use: A meta-analysis. Addictive Behavior, 33, 1314-1328.
Hine, D.W., Honan, C., Marks, A. D. G., & Brettschneider, K. (2007). Development and validation of the Smoking Expectancy Scale for Adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 19, 347-355.
Hine, D.W., Marks, A.D.G. , Nachriener, M., Gifford, R., Heath, Y. (2007). Keeping the home fires burning: The affect heuristic and wood smoke pollution. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 27, 26-32.
Cockshott, F., Marsh, N. & Hine, D.W. (2006) Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Third edition in an Australian Clinical Sample. Psychological Assessment, 18,353-357.
Hine, D.W., Montiel, C. J., Cooksey, R., & Lewko, J. (2005). Mental models of poverty in developing nations: A Canada-Philippines contrast. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 36, 283-303.
Hine, D.W., Tilleczek, K., Lewko, J. H., McKenzie-Richer, A., & Perreault, L. (2005). Measuring adolescent smoking expectancies by incorporating judgments about the expected time of occurrence of smoking outcomes. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19, 284-290.
Hine, D.W., McKenzie-Richer, A., Lewko, J. H., Tilleczek, K., & Perreault, L. (2002). A comparison of the mediational properties of four adolescent smoking expectancy measures. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 16, 187-195.