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Dr Graeme Galloway  

Dr Graeme Galloway

Lecturer

 

 

Phone: +61 3 5444 7511
Fax: +61 3 5444 7850
g.galloway@latrobe.edu.au

Room 4.08
Arts Building

 

BA (Hons), PhD

I conduct theoretical and/or empirical psychological research on a broad range of topics including: theoretical psychology (direct realist analyses of human cognition); humor (theories of humor; relationship of humor to mental health, creativity, intelligence, personality; humor and advertising); psychology of tourism (personality-based market segmentation of tourism markets; risk management; decision making; travel motivation, personality predictors of attitudes and behaviours of wine tourists); and person-nature interaction (health benefits, response bias).

I have been at La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus since 1990, where my main teaching has been in cognitive science, history and philosophy of psychology, and research methods and statistics.

Currently I am the Bendigo Campus coordinator for the third year subjects PSY3PYA/B, and PSY3RSA/B.

Areas of Empirical and Theoretical Research Supervision.
Humor; Psychology of Tourism; Direct Realist Analyses of Human Cognition.

Academic Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Psychology, University of Sydney.
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD), University of Sydney.

Memberships and Associations
Member, Australian Psychological Society.
Registered Psychologist, Victoria, Australia.
Member, International Association of Society and Natural Resources.
Founder, Bendigo Regional Group, Victorian Branch, Australian Psychological Society.

Editorial Consultancies
I am a reviewer for the following journals:
International Review of Education
Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Tourism Management
South Pacific Journal of Psychology
Tourism Geographies Journal
Annals of Tourism Research
Theory & Psychology
Annals of Leisure Research

Industry Collaborators
Winemakers’ Federation of Australia

Recent Research Grants

1999
Costley, C., & Galloway, G.
Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Effectiveness of humor in advertising: An empirical examination of stimulus characteristics and individual differences. (NZ$2,500).
2003
Galloway, G., Mitchell, R., Getz, D., Crouch, G., & Ong, B.
La Trobe University Intercampus Research Incentive Scheme research grant. Identification of psychological predictors of the attitudes and behaviours of wine tourists.
($12,000).
Mitchell, R., Galloway, G., Getz, D., Crouch, G., & Ong, B.
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Replication of the Australian study of psychological predictors of the attitudes and behaviours of wine tourists. (NZ$7,400).
2005
C. Lee, S. Bergin-Seers, G. Galloway, A. McMurray, B. O'Mahony.
Seasonality and the tourism industry: Impacts and strategies. CRC for Sustainable Tourism, Project #80085. ($30,000).

Research Publications

DEST Publication category C1 (Articles in scholarly refereed journal)

1.Galloway, G. (1993). Mind as brain. South Pacific Journal of Psychology, 6(1), 24-28.

2.Galloway, G. (1994). Psychological studies of the relationship of sense of humor to creativity and intelligence: A review. European Journal for High Ability (now called High Ability Studies), 5, 133-144.

3.Galloway, G., & Cropley, A. (1999). Benefits of humor for mental health: Empirical findings and directions for further research. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 12(3), 301-314.

4. Galloway, G., & Lopez, K. (1999). Sensation seeking and attitudes to aspects of national parks: A preliminary empirical investigation. Tourism Management, 20, 665-671.

5. Galloway, G. (2000). Direct realism and the analysis of perceptual error. Theory & Psychology, 10 (5), 605-614.

6. Cropley, A., & Galloway, G. (2001). Humour and mental health:Implications for psychotherapy. Journal of Baltic Psychology, 2, 5-14.

7. Galloway, G. (2002). Psychographic segmentation of park visitor markets: Evidence for the utility of sensation seeking. Tourism Management, 23(6), 581-596.

8. Costley, C., Koslow, S., & Galloway. G. (2002). Sense of humor and advertising: A funny thing happened on the way to the model. Advances in Consumer Research, 29, 225-226.

9. Galloway, G., & Chirico, D. (in press, 2008). Personality and humor appreciation: Evidence of an association between trait neuroticism and preferences for structural features of humor. Paper accepted for publication in Humor: International Journal of Humor Research.

10. Galloway, G., Mitchell, R., Getz, D., Crouch, & Ong, B. (in press 2008). Sensation seeking and the prediction of attitudes and behaviours of wine tourists. Paper accepted for publication in Tourism Management.

11. Galloway, G. (revision under review). Humor and ad liking: Evidence that sensation seeking moderates the effects of incongruity-resolution humor. Psychology & Marketing.

12. Ewert, A., & Galloway, G. (revision under review). Socially desirable responding in an environmental context: Development of a domain specific scale. Environment and Behavior.

DEST Publication Category E3 (Conference Publications – Refereed Extract/Abstract of paper)

1. Galloway, G., & Wells, J. (1996). Motivations for tourist behaviour: A critical review. Abstract included in the refereed conference abstracts of working papers of paper presented at the Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference, Coffs Harbour, 6-9 February, 1996.

2. Galloway, G., & Wells, J. (1997). An incentives-based approach to latent market segmentation: A study of the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, A.C.T., Australia. Abstract included in the refereed conference abstracts of working papers of paper presented at the International Tourism Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, 6-9 July, 1997.

3. Galloway, G. (2000). An empirical examination of the personality constructs sensation seeking and locus of control as predictors of attitudes to aspects of national parks for young adult Australians and Canadians. Refereed abstract, Proceedings of the CAUTHE 2000 Conference: Peak Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Research, La Trobe University Mt. Buller Campus, 2 - 5 February, 2000.

4. Galloway, G. (2001). Examination of the factor structure of attitudes to features of parks examined in the 1996 Ontario Parks Camper Survey. Refereed conference abstract, Proceedings of the CAUTHE 2001 National Research Conference, Canberra, Australia, 7 - 10 February, 2001. p.45.

5. Costley, C., Galloway, G., & Koslow, S. (2001). Sense of humor and what’s funny in advertising. Refereed conference abstract, 20th International Humor Conference, College Park, Maryland, USA, 6-10 July 2001. p.43.

6. Koslow, S., Costley, C., & Galloway, G. (2002). Sense of humor and advertising. Refereed conference abstract, Association for Consumer Research Conference, Virginia, USA. In S. Broniarczyk and K. Nakamoto (eds.). Advances in Consumer Research. Vol XXIX, 2002.

7. Ewert, A., & Galloway, G. (2004). Expressed environmental attitudes and actual behaviour: Exploring the concept of environmentally-desirable responses. Refereed conference abstract, 10th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, June 2-6, 2004, Keystone, Colorado, USA. Book of Abstracts, pp. 58-59.

8. Galloway, G., & Ewert, A. (2005). Environmentally desirable response bias: Psychometric properties, and potential applications, of a new measurement instrument. Refereed conference abstract, 11th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, June 16-19, 2005, Ostersund, Sweden. Book of Abstracts, p. 31.

9. Ewert, A., & Galloway, G. (2005). Environmental attitudes and concerns: Intrinsically held beliefs or political statements? Refereed abstract 8th World Wilderness Congress, September 30-October 6, 2005, Anchorage, Alaska. p. 53.

10. Mitchell, R., & Galloway, G. (2005). Sensation seeking and winery visitation. Refereed conference abstract, ATLAS Annual Conference, 2005. University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 2-4 November, 2005.

11. Ewert, A., & Galloway, G. (2006). Environmentally desirable response sets: What do we really know about the impact of outdoor education programs? Refereed conference abstract, 3rd Outdoor Education Research Conference 2006, University of Central Lancashire, UK, July 4 - 7 2006.

12. Mitchell, R., Christensen, D., & Galloway, G. (2006). Wine clubs, wine tourists, enduring involvement, and personality traits. Refereed conference abstract - International Wine Tourism Conference, Margaret River, WA Australia. November 2006. World wine and travel summit and exhibition: Academic stream proceedings. J. Carlsen (ed.). p. 50.

13. Ewert, A., & Galloway, G. (2007). The environmental attitude-behavior connection: An alternative explanation - Environmentally desirable responding. Refereed Conference abstract , 13th International Symposium on Society & Resource Management Park City Utah June 17-21.

14. Lee, C., & Galloway, G. (2007). Ethical challenges in conducting research with ethnic communities. Refereed Abstract, National Research Ethics Conference, 2007, 17-18 October, 2007, Albert Park, Melbourne.

15. Lee, C., McMurray, A., Galloway, G., Bergin-Seers, S., & O’Mahony, B. (2007). Seasonality and the tourism Industry in Australia. Refereed abstract, 7th PERA (Pacific Employment Relations Association) Academic Conference, Nov 14-16, 2007, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia.

DEST Publication Category E1 (Conference Publications – Full Refereed Paper – Refereed Proceedings)

1. Galloway, G. (1998). Motivations for leisure travel: A critical examination. Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference, 11- 14 February, 1998, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, pp. 99-108.

2. Ewert, A., & Galloway, G. (2004). Expressed environmental attitudes and actual behaviour: Exploring the concept of environmentally desirable responses. International Outdoor Education Research Conference, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, July 6-9, 2004. Connections and Disconnections: Examining the reality and rhetoric. International perspectives on outdoor education theory and practice. (Refereed full paper, available on disk – also through google scholar).

3. Ewert, A., & Galloway, G. (2006). Environmental desirability responding: One possibility in addressing the attitude-behavior gap. Research in Outdoor Education, vol. 8, 63-74. Coalition for Education in the Outdoors, State University of New York at Cortland.

4. Lee, C., & Galloway, G. (2007). Addressing the negligible usage of parks by ethnic communities. 12 International Conference on ISO 9000 & TQM (12-ICIT). Going for Gold, 9-11 April, 2007, National Taichung Chin-Yi University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

DEST Publication Category M (Published pamphlet or report)

1. Galloway, G. (1990). Evaluation of the effects of changed parking arrangements in the Bendigo Central Retail Area (for Bendigo City Council).

2. Galloway, G. (1992). Evaluation of the Leisure Focus, Loddon Campaspe region, Bendigo, High Support project.

3. Lee, C., Bergin-Seers, S., Galloway, G., O’Mahony, B., & McMurray, A. (2008). Seasonality and the tourism industry: Impacts and strategies. Project #80085, CRC for Sustainable Tourism.

Conferences
See list of Conference Presentations above.

Visiting Lecturer/Scholar Positions
2003
Visiting Lecturer, Tourism Department, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
Visiting Scholar, School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Indiana University, USA.
Visiting Lecturer, Albright Center, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA.
Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University and Napier University; Scotland, UK.
2002
Visiting Lecturer, Resource, Recreation and Tourism Program, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada.
Visiting lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1999
Visiting Lecturer, Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Development Studies, Trent University, Ontario, Canada.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geography, and School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks, and Tourism, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.
Visiting Lecturer, Resource, Recreation and Tourism Program, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada.
Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Interdisciplinary Management Studies, Waikato Management School, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Human and Leisure Sciences, Lincoln University, Christchurch, NZ.
1995
Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Tourism and Leisure Policy Research, University of Canberra, Australia.


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