Dr Eugene Aidman

Human Systems Integration, LOD Defence Science and Technology Organisation Phone +61 (08) 8259 6446 Fax +61 (08) 8259 4193 Eugene.Aidman@dsto.defence.gov.au Personal Page

Area of Research

Personality & Individual Differences

Psychometrics

Sport and performance psychology

Human Factors

Senior Appointments and Memberships

Senior Research Scientist (Human Systems Integration) Defence Science & Technology Organisation

Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide

Member of the Executive, APS College of Sport Psychologists

Editorial Board Member, Journal of the American Board of Sport Psychology

Member, Sports Medicine Australia

Psychology Research Interests

Personality and occupational success in work/sport/military contexts

Investigation of implicit social cognition: attitudes and self-esteem

Performance-based assessment of personality in synthetic environments

Modeling of human performance and goal-directed action

Recent Key Publications

Petróczi, A., & Aidman, E.V. (2008). Psychological drivers in doping: the life-cycle model of performance enhancement. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy http://www.substanceabusepolicy.com/   3:7.

Ivancievic, V., & Aidman, E.V. (2007). Life-Space Foam: a Medium for Motivational and Cognitive Dynamics. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics And Its Application, 382, 616-630.

Aidman, E. (2006).  Measuring Aggression in a Computer Game Simulation . In: J.P.Morgan (Ed.) Perspectives on the Psychology of Aggression , ( pp. 91-109). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers .

Meagher, B.E., & Aidman, E. (2004) Individual Differences in Implicit and Declared Self-Esteem as Predictors of Response to Negative Performance Evaluation: Validating Implicit Association Test as a Measure of Self-Attitudes . International Journal of Testing , 4 (1), 19-42.

Aidman, E.V., & Schofield, G. (2004). Personality and Individual Differences in Sport. In T. Morris & J. Summers (Eds.), Sport Psychology: Theory, Applications and Issues (2nd Ed.) (pp.22-47). Milton: Wiley.