Associate Professor Robert B Isler
Graduate and International Student Adviser (Psychology), Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: Dipl Natw. ETH, PhD ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Expertise
Applied physiological psychology and human performance; road safety, driver training and education; teenage driver issues.
Research Interests
Dr Isler's research interests include psychology-physiology interactions, eye movement behaviour and human factors in road safety issues, and cognitive processes such as memory and perception in humans.
He is available to supervise graduate research in safety issues, and human performance, eye movement behaviour, human information processing, psycho-physiology and psychophysics.
Recent Publications
Isler, R. (2018). Steering the NZAPP into the future: Intentions, dreams and realities. In 4th Biennial Conference in Positive Psychology in New Zealand. Conference held at University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Heintz, S., Ruch, W., Platt, T., Pang, D., Carretero-Dios, H., Dionigi, A., . . . Torres-Marin, J. (2018). Psychometric comparisons of benevolent and corrective humor across 22 countries: The virtue gap in humor goes international. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 19 pages. doi:10.3389/fpsyd.2018.00092
Isler, R. B. (2017). Fleetcoach [Developer and designer of online driver training programme]. University of Waikato & eDrive Solutions Ltd. Retrieved from https://www.fleetcoach.com/
Kim, J. D., Perrone, J. A., & Isler, R. B. (2017). The effect of differences in day and night lighting distributions on drivers' speed perception. Perception, 46(6), 728-744. doi:10.1177/0301006616684236
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isler, AProf Robert | 9227 | psyc2255 | K.1.11 | School of Psychology |