B Arts (Honours), B Science, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Psychology

Contact details for A/Prof Brett Myors

Research expertise

• Industrial/Organisational Psychologist with specific interests in the application of psychological assessment to areas such as personnel selection.
• Methodological areas such as power analysis and utility analysis.

Current teaching areas

• Brett is Director of Organisational Training and takes overall responsibility for postgraduate programs in Organisational Psychology offered by the School. As such he is the default convenor for research and practicum courses as well as convening specific courses in his area of interest such as The Employment Lifecycle and Psychological Assessment.
• Within the undergraduate program, Brett convenes senior level courses in research methods and supervises honours students from a wide range of interests.
• Honours topics that Brett has recently supervised include: The effectiveness of online training, The nature of academic procrastination, Applications of O*NET in the Australian context, Why people enjoy watching horror movies, and What motivates people to eat out of garbage bins.
  

Publications

• Glendon, A.I., Thompson, B., and Myors, B. (Eds.). (2007). Advances in Organisational Psychology. Australian Academic Press, Brisbane.
• Shum, D., O’Gorman, J., and Myors, B. (2006). Psychological Testing and Assessment. Oxford University Press, Sydney.
• Carstairs, J.R., Myors, B., Shores, E. A., and Fogarty, G. (2006). Influence of language background on tests of cognitive abilities: Australian data. Australian Psychologist, 41, 48-54.
• Myors, B. (2006). Statistical power. In F.T.L. Leong and J.T. Austin (Eds.) The Psychology Research Handbook. Second Edition: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
• Myors, B., and Carstairs, J.R. (2004). What is a psychological test? University of Sheffield Institute of Work Psychology What Is? Series.