Professor Simon Kemp
Position
Professor
Working Papers:
Ordinal Scales in Psychology (pdf, 348KB)
Simon Kemp & Randolph C. Grace
University of Canterbury
Version: 21 March, 2012
Recent Research:
PSYC 105 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SEMESTER 1 (2011) FOLLOWING THE FEBRUARY EARTHQUAKE (PDF, 83KB)
Effects of the September 4, 2010 earthquake on second semester academic grades at the University of Canterbury (pdf, 42KB, 18 Jan 11)
Curriculum Vitae (December 2011)
Qualifications
MSc (Auckland)
Ph.D. (Auckland)
Room
208a
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2968 (direct)
Internal Phone: 6968
Email: simon.kemp@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Psychology
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
PSYC 346: Judgement and Decision Making - Course Coordinator
PSYC 344: Research Methods
Graduate Courses
PSYC 472: History of Psychology (new course) - Course Coordinator
PSYC 473: The Individual in the Economy (new course) - Course Coordinator
Thesis Supervision
I am happy to supervise on a range of topics, especially in economic psychology, memory and the history of psychology.
General supervision comments:
I have ideas that I think would make good projects and theses, but I am equally happy to supervise students who want to work from their own ideas.
In general, I expect to help with the research strategy and design, point out at least some previous work (depending a little on area), suggest and sometimes introduce appropriate analysis techniques (I have taught research methods and statistics), and read (and hopefully improve) drafts. I believe good thesis results should be published. I am not good at being very directive.
Current Research Interests
I have research interests in economic psychology, long-term memory, psychological measurement, and the history of psychology.
Current projects include investigating under what circumstances scales can be ordinal and the possibility that category rating might be the basis for an efficient ranking process (both with Randolph Grace), whether promotion decisions are affected by anchoring bias (with Zhe Chen), whether part-time working affects students’ academic achievement (with Jessica Richardson, Steve Haultain and Sanna Malinen), lay views of international trade and the recent recession, lay perceptions of accountability, the psychological and commercial effects of the recent earthquake (with Deak Helton and Neville Blampied), and how income distribution preferences relate to individual enviousness (with Friedel Bolle). Mostly my research students work within the fields of decision-making and economic psychology.
University Administration
University of Canterbury Council
Academic Board
Department Administration
400 level coordinator from Semester 2, 2012
Recent Publications (2009 to present)
In Press
Chen, Z., & Kemp, S. (in press). Lie hard: The effect of self-assessments on academic promotion decisions. Journal of Economic Psychology.
Kemp, S., & Chen, Z. (in press). Overall hedonic evaluations and evaluation of specific moments from past relationships and high school days. Journal of Happiness Studies.
Kemp, S., Helton, W.S., Richardson, J., Blampied, N.M., & Grimshaw, M. (in press). Sleeplessness, stress, cognitive disruption and academic performance following the September 4, 2010, Christchurch earthquake. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies.
2011
Helton, W.S., Head, J., & Kemp, S. (2011). Natural disaster induced cognitive disruption: impacts on action slips. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1732-1737.
Helton W.S., & Kemp, S. (2011). What basic–applied issue? Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 12, 397-407.
Kemp, S. (2011). Medieval consumption. In D. Southerton (Ed.), Encyclopedia of consumer culture (pp. 942-946). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Kemp, S. (2011). Economic Psychology. In D. Southerton (Ed.), Encyclopedia of consumer culture (pp. 495-498). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Kemp, S., Richardson, J., & Burt, C.D.B. (2011). A goat for Christmas: Exploring third-party gifts. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 26, 453-464.
Kemp, S., & Wall, G. (2011). Psychology and economics: An introduction to the special issue. New Zealand Economic Papers, 45, 1-4.
2010
Haultain, S., Kemp, S., & Chernyshenko, O.S. (2010). The structure of attitudes to student debt. Journal of Economic Psychology. 31, 322-330.
Kemp, S, & Grace, R.C. (2010). When can information from ordinal scale variables be integrated? Psychological Methods, 15, 398-412.
2009
Bolle, F., & Kemp, S. (2009). Can we compare life satisfaction between nationalities? – Evaluating actual and imagined situations. Social Indicators Research, 90, 397-408.
Casola, L., Kemp, S., & Mackenzie, A. (2009). Consumer decisions in the black market for stolen or counterfeit goods. Journal of Economic Psychology, 30, 162-171.
Dai, Z., Grace, R.C., & Kemp, S. (2009). Reward contrast in delay and probability discounting. Learning & Behavior, 37, 281-288.
Kemp, S. (2009). Public perception of actual changes in New Zealand government spending. New Zealand Economic Papers, 43, 59-67.
Kemp, S., Burt, C.D.B., & Malinen, S. (2009). Investigating the structure of autobiographical memory using reaction times. Memory, 17, 511-517.
Kemp, S., & McGuigan, C. (2009). Do PhD examiners agree on their recommendations? New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 44, 47-58.
Zhang, J., & Kemp, S. (2009). The relationships between student debt and motivation, happiness, and academic achievement. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 38(2), 24-29.
See recent CV for further publications