School of Psychology - Directory - People - Dr Mark Horswill
School of Psychology
University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane
QLD 4072
Australia
BSc Hons in Cybernetics and Psychology; PhD in Psychology; Certificate in Further Professional Studies in Teaching in Higher Education
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
5. Rowe, R., Horswill, M. S., Kronvall-Parkinson, M., Poulter, D. R. & McKenna, F. P. (2009). The effect of disguise on novice and expert tennis players' anticipation ability. Journal of Applied Sports Psychology, 21(2), 178-185.
7. Horswill, M. S., & Plooy, A. M. (2008). Reducing contrast makes speeds in a video-based driving simulator harder to discriminate as well making them appear slower. Perception, 37, 1269-1275.
8. Horswill, M. S., Marrington, S. A., McCullough, C. M., Wood, J., Pachana, N. A., McWilliam, J., Raikos, M. K. (2008). The hazard perception ability of older drivers. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 63, 212-218.
9. Horswill, M. S., & Plooy, A. M. (2008). Auditory feedback influences perceived driving speeds. Perception, 37, 1037-1043.
10. Wallis, T. S. A., & Horswill, M. S. (2007). Using fuzzy signal detection theory to determine why experienced and trained drivers respond faster than novices in a hazard perception test. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 39, 1137-1185.
11. Campbell, J. M., Edwards, M. S., Horswill, M. S., Helman, S. (2007). Effects of contextual cues in recall and recognition memory: The misinformation effect reconsidered. British Journal of Psychology, 98(3), 485-498.
12. Myers, L. B., & Horswill, M. S. (2006). Social cognitive predictors of sun protection intention and behavior. Behavioral Medicine, 32, 57-63.
13. McKenna, F. P., Horswill, M. S., & Alexander, J. (2006). Does anticipation training affect drivers' risk taking? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12(1), 1-10.
14. McKenna, F. P. & Horswill, M. S. (2006). Risk taking from the participants' perspective: The case of driving and accident risk. Health Psychology, 25(2), 163-170.
15. Horswill, M. S., Helman, S., Ardiles, P., & Wann, J. P. (2005). Motorcycle accident risk could be inflated by a time to arrival illusion. Optometry and Vision Science, 82(8), 740-746.
16. Waylen, A. E., Horswill, M. S., Alexander, J., & McKenna, F. P. (2004). Do expert drivers have a reduced illusion of superiority? Transportation Research Part F, 7, 323-331.
17. Horswill, M. S., Waylen, A. E., & Tofield, M. I. (2004). Drivers' ratings of different components of their own driving skill: A greater illusion of superiority for skills that relate to accident involvement. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34 (1), 177-195.
Book Chapters:
27. Horswill, M. S., & McKenna, F. P. (2004). Drivers' hazard perception ability: Situation awareness on the road. In S. Banbury & S. Tremblay (Eds.). A Cognitive Approach to Situation Awareness (pp.155-175). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Peer-reviewed conference papers:
Published conference papers (not peer-reviewed):
30. Horswill, M. S., Waylen, A. E., & Tofield, M. I. (2002). Drivers' illusion of superiority for hazard perception and vehicle control skill. In Marçal, S. (Ed.), Behavioural Research in Road Safety: Twelfth Seminar, London: Department for Transport.
32. Horswill, M. S. & Coster, M. E. (2001). Using the Internet for research into traffic psychology. Proceedings of the International Conference of Traffic and Transport Psychology, Berne, 3-7 September 2000. Berne: Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (BFU).
Published conference abstracts:
45. Smith S., Horswill M., Wetton M., and Chambers, B. (2008) Hazard perception when sleepy in experienced and inexperienced drivers. Sleep, 31(Suppl. S), A122.
46. Preece, M. H. W., Geffen, G. M., & Horswill, M. S. (2008). Are individuals recovering from mild traumatic brain injury vigilant drivers? Brain Impairment, 9(1), 89.
47. Smith S., Horswill M., Wetton M., and Chambers, B. (2007) Sleepiness and hazard perception while driving in experienced and inexperienced drivers. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 5(S1) A104.
48. Wallis, T., & Horswill, M. (2006). Signal detection theory in applied tasks: The case of hazard perception in driving. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58 (supplement), 94.
49. Horswill, M. & Plooy, A. (2006). The effect of reduced contrast on drivers' speed perception. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58 (supplement), 79-80.
50. Pachana, N., Horswill, M., Marrington, S., McCullough, C. (2005). "Hazard detection in older adult drivers" Australian Journal of Psychology, 57 (supplement), 278.
51. Myers, L.B. & Horswill, M. (2004). Social cognitive predictors of sun protection intention and behaviour. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 12, 178-179.
Reports
Others:
Course Coordinator:
I have some exciting research possibilities waiting for you if you pick me to be your honours supervisor in 2010 linked to NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, DRIVING, and HUMAN FACTORS IN MEDICINE. Here are some examples:
1. You will investigate the effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on drivers’ hazard perception.We will look at whether people with TBI (or even a history of head injury) have an elevated risk of crashing because of their impaired ability to anticipate traffic hazards due to ongoing cognitive impairments. You will learn to administer neuropsychological tests. Would ideally suit students interested in pursuing a research career in applied cognitive psychology or neuropsychology or students wishing to undertake a clinical Masters.
2. We developed a hazard perception training package for young drivers in conjunction with Queensland Transport - and preliminary data indicates that it has a stunningly huge beneficial effect on drivers' hazard perception response times. However, we've just got access to an eye-tracker and want to see whether training actually changes what people are looking at in our driving simulator. Also we need to know how long the training effect lasts for, which components of the training work the best, and how to persuade drivers to take the training in the first place. Help us find out the answers to these questions and save lives!
3. Lots of people die in hospital under circumstances that can be avoided. We're currently working on a project to reduce this death toll by (1) designing and evaluating the "ideal" patient observation chart (which may end up being used throughout Australia) (2) working out the bes way to educate health professionals on detecting and acting on patient deterioration (using charts). This is exciting stuff where we have an excellent chance of saving lives.
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