Research Interests: Alcohol consumption, implicit attitudes, attitudinal ambivalence, alcohol advertising, evaluative conditioning.

 

Research Aims:  To obtain a greater understanding of the underlying nature of alcohol-related attitudes, with a particular interest in implicit attitudes and ambivalence. To examine the relationship between alcohol-related sponsorship of sport and drinking behaviour andto investigate the effectiveness of health-related alcohol labelling on attitudes and drinking behaviour.

 

Expected Research Outcomes:  

1. Assessment of factors leading to alcohol ambivalence toward alcohol consumption

2. Investigation in to the influence of alcohol-related advertising on implicit attitudes

3. Further development of implicit attitude measures, with a particular focus on IAT variants

4. Identifying more effective methods of producing negative attitudes toward alcohol consumption

 

 

Current Projects

Examining workplace sitting in the University and its effect on mental and physical health

Examining factors that may contribute to Medical students working in rural areas

Statistical advice to HDR students at James Cook University

Examining students perceptions of subjects in the Health Sciences at James Cook University

Examining the relationship between sports and alcohol consumption

 

Publications

 

Ray RA, Young JL and Lindsay D (2015) The influences of background on beginning medical

students' perceptions of rural medical practice. BMC Medical Education, 15.

Ray RA, Fried O and Lindsay D (2014) Palliative care professional education via video conference

builds confidence to deliver palliative care in rural and remote locations. BMC Health Services Research, 14. pp. 1-8

Lindsay D and Swinbourne AL (2014) Implicit ambivalence toward alcohol consumption. Drug and

Alcohol Review, 33 (Supplement S1). p. 44

Lindsay D and Swinbourne AL (2014) I like it but I don't: attitudinal ambivalence and addictive

behaviours. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21 (Supplement 1). pp. S152-S153

Lindsay D and Swinbourne AL (2014) Unhealthy or unsociable? The influence of message framing on

alcohol-related implicit attitudes. European Health Psychology, 16 (S1). p. 533

Lindsay D and Swinbourne AL (2014) Attitudinal ambivalence toward health behaviours in a cross-

cultural sample. European Health Psychology, 16 (S1). p. 818

Lindsay D and Swinbourne AL (2013) Drink before you think: the influence of automatic processes

on alcohol consumption. Psychology & Health, 28 (S1). p. 260

Boynton RE, Swinbourne AL, Lindsay D and Morris KR (2013) A cross-cultural application of the

prototype willingness model. Psychology & Health, 28 (S1). p. 181

Lindsay D and Swinbourne AL (2013) The influence of advertisements on health-related implicit

attitudes and behaviour. Psychology & Health, 28 (S1). p. 121

Lindsay D and Swinbourne AL (2011) Drink before you think: the role of implicit cognitions in alcohol

consumption. Combined Abstracts of 2011 Australian Psychology Conferences. In: 46th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, 4-8 October 2011, Canberra, ACT, Australia