B Science (Honours), GCert Higher Ed, PhD
Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Psychology
Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council
Psychology Early Career Teaching Award from Pearson Education and the Australian Psychological Society
Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching (Social Sciences)
Contact details for A/Prof David Neumann
Research expertise
- Using a combination of behavioural, self-report, and physiological measures to study attention and learning.
- The fundamental nature of attention and how to best harness attention to enhance performance during sport and exercise.
- Basic learning processes that underlie fear and other emotions and ways to improve cognitive-behavioural treatment programs for these problems.
Current teaching areas
- Research methods and statistics
- Behavioural neuroscience
- Associative learning
- A/Prof David Neumann is the program convenor for the Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) programs.
- Main contact person for students within 4th year psychology programs and students wishing to apply for entry into the Honours programs.
- Supervision of honours research projects in the areas of clinical psychology, sport psychology, and psychophysiology
Selected Publications
- Boyle, G. J., Neumann, D. L., Westbury, H. R., Reiestad, M., & Furedy, J. J. (2010). Balance between merit and equity in academic hiring decisions: Judgemental content analysis applied to the phraseology of Australian tenure-stream advertisements in comparison with Canadian advertisements. Australian Universities Review, 52, 49-55.
- Neumann, D. L., & Kitlertsirivatana, E. (2010). Exposure to a novel context after extinction causes a renewal of extinguished conditioned responses: Implications for the treatment of fear. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 565-570.
- Neumann, D. L. (2010). The use of computer-based interactive simulations in the assessment of statistical concepts. The International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 17(1), 43-51.
- Neumann, D. L., Neumann, M. M., & Hood, M. (2010). The development and evaluation of a survey that makes use of student data to teach statistics. Journal of Statistics Education, 18(1).
- Neumann, M. M., & Neumann, D. L. (2010). Parental strategies to scaffold emergent writing skills in the pre-school child within the home environment. Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development,30(1), 79-94.