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Citations
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5833
National Ranking
420

Overview

Allyson Holbrook is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily focused on Health Professions, Psychology, and Social Sciences. Within these areas, key subfields include General Health Professions, Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The core themes in Holbrook's work center around doctoral education challenges and solutions, student assessment and feedback, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, and studies related to perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety. Additional research interests include innovations in medical education, career development and diversity, and science education and pedagogy.

Holbrook has contributed to a range of academic publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Wellbeing and doctoral candidature: The background and development of the importance to doctoral wellbeing questionnaire (2022) published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International
  • Oral defence as a feedback mechanism in doctoral development and examination (2021) published in The Australian Educational Researcher
  • Supervisor perspectives on the 'end-stage' of the doctoral examination process (2020) published in Higher Education Research & Development
  • Why we should capitalise on early childhood interest in engineering: changes in students' interest over the school years (2021) published in Australasian journal of engineering education
  • Dispositions towards learning: the importance of epistemic attributes for postgraduate learners (2023) published in Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Holbrook include:

  • Hedy Fairbairn
  • Jill Scevak
  • Kylie Shaw
  • Terence Lovat
  • Kerry Dally

Holbrook's research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, notably Higher Education Research & Development, Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, and The Australian Educational Researcher.

Best Publications

  • Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of National Probability Samples with Long Questionnaires: Comparisons of Respondent Satisficing and Social Desirability Response Bias

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Melanie C. Green;J. O. N. A. Krosnick

  • The Impact of "No Opinion" Response Options on Data Quality: Non-Attitude Reduction or an Invitation to Satisfice?

    Jon A. Krosnick;Allyson L. Holbrook;Matthew K. Berent;Richard T. Carson

  • Social desirability bias in voter turnout reports Tests using the item count technique

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Jon A. Krosnick

  • The Origins and Consequences of democratic citizens' Policy Agendas: A Study of Popular Concern about Global Warming

    Jon A. Krosnick;Allyson L. Holbrook;Laura Lowe;Penny S. Visser

  • The Causes and Consequences of Response Rates in Surveys by the News Media and Government Contractor Survey Research Firms

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Jon A. Krosnick;Alison Pfent

  • Attitude importance and the accumulation of attitude-relevant knowledge in memory.

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Matthew K. Berent;Jon A. Krosnick;Penny S. Visser

  • The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion

    Jon A. Krosnick;Allyson L. Holbrook;Penny S. Visser

  • Attitudes toward presidential candidates and political parties: Initial optimism, inertial first impressions, and a focus on flaws

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Jon A. Krosnick;Penny S. Visser;Wendi L. Gardner

  • Response Order Effects in Dichotomous Categorical Questions Presented Orally The Impact of Question and Respondent Attributes

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Jon A. Krosnick;David Moore;Roger Tourangeau

  • The Impact of Personality on Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective Political Processes: The Effects of Need to Evaluate

    George Y. Bizer;Jon A. Krosnick;Allyson L. Holbrook;S. Christian Wheeler

  • Measuring Voter Turnout By Using The Randomized Response Technique Evidence Calling Into Question The Method’s Validity

    Allyson L. Holbrook;Jon A. Krosnick

  • The Impact of Question and Respondent Characteristics on Comprehension and Mapping Difficulties

    Allyson Holbrook;Young Ik Cho;Timothy Johnson

  • Attrition, completion and completion times of PhD candidates

    Sid Bourke;Allyson Holbrook;Terence Lovat;Peter Farley

  • Culture Moderates the Relation Between Perceived Stress, Social Support, and Mental and Physical Health:

    Sharon Shavitt;Young Ik Cho;Timothy P. Johnson;Duo Jiang

  • Doctoral supervision in a cross-cultural context: issues affecting supervisors and candidates

    Theresa Winchester-Seeto;Judi Homewood;Jane Thogersen;Christa Jacenyik-Trawoger

  • Survey response styles across cultures

    Timothy P. Johnson;Sharon Shavitt;Allyson L. Holbrook

  • Investigating PhD thesis examination reports

    Allyson Holbrook;Sidney Bourke;Terence Lovat;Kerry Dally

  • Examiner comment on the literature review in Ph.D. theses

    Allyson Holbrook;Sid Bourke;Hedy Fairbairn;Terry Lovat

  • Using Community-Level Correlates to Evaluate Nonresponse Effects in a Telephone Survey

    Timothy P. Johnson;Young Ik Cho;Richard T. Campbell;Allyson L. Holbrook

  • Valuing the protection of ecological systems and services; a report of the EPA Science Advisory Board

    Barton H. Thompson;Robert E. Paradise;Perry L. McCarty;Kathleen Segerson

  • Knowledge and Attitudes

    Penny S. Visser;Allyson Holbrook;Jon A. Krosnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy P. Johnson
Timothy P. Johnson University of Illinois at Chicago
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
Sharon Shavitt
Sharon Shavitt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vaughan J. Carr
Vaughan J. Carr University of New South Wales
Kristin R. Laurens
Kristin R. Laurens Queensland University of Technology
Melissa J. Green
Melissa J. Green University of New South Wales
Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Roger Tourangeau
Roger Tourangeau Westat (United States)
Brady T. West
Brady T. West University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Melanie C. Green
Melanie C. Green University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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