Dr Matthew Dry

 Position Senior Lecturer
 Org Unit Psychology
 Email matthew.dry@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 831 33856
 Location Floor/Room 5 ,  Hughes ,   North Terrace
  • Qualifications

    1. Doctor of Philosophy, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 2007: “Comparing Models of Symmetry Perception”. Supervisors: A/Prof D. Vickers, A/Prof M. Lee, Dr N. Burns, Dr S. Dennis.

    2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours Psychology, First Class), ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, 2002.

    3. Bachelor of Arts (Drama Studies), ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, 1997.

  • Publications

    Connell, S., Freeling, B., Doubleday, Z., Dry, M., & Semmler, C. (2021). Better writing in scientific publications builds reader confidence and understanding. Frontiers in Psychology12, 1-8.

     

    Tape, N., Branson, V., Dry, M., & Turnbull, D. (2021). The impact of psychological well-being and ill-being on academic performance: a longitudinal and cross-sectional study. Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 1-9.

     

    Comley, R. E., & Dry, M. J. (2020). Acute behavioral tolerance to alcohol.. Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology28(1), 112-129.

     

    Comley, R. E., & Dry, M. J. (2020). Acute tolerance to alcohol-induced impairment in cognitive performance.. Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology28(6), 11 pages.

     

    Branson, V., Palmer, E., Dry, M. J., & Turnbull, D. (2019). A holistic understanding of the effect of stress on adolescent well-being: a conditional process analysis. Stress and Health35(5), 626-641.

     

    Branson, V. M., Dry, M. J., Palmer, E., & Turnbull, D. (2019). The Adolescent Distress-Eustress Scale: Development and Validation. SAGE Open9(3), 14 pages.

     

    Jarrad, T., Dry, M., Semmler, C., Turnbull, D., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2019). The psychological distress and physical health of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n psychology honours students.. ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Journal of Psychology54(4), 302-310.

     

    Branson, V., Turnbull, D., Dry, M. J., & Palmer, E. (2019). How do young people experience stress? A qualitative investigation of the indicators of distress and eustress in adolescents. International Journal of Stress Management26(3), 321-329.

     

    Nikoloudakis, I. A., Crutzen, R., Vandelanotte, C., Quester, P., Dry, M., Skuse, A. J., . . . Short, C. E. (2018). Can you elaborate on that? Addressing participants’ need for cognition in computer-tailored health behavior interventions. Health Psychology Review12(4), 437-254.

     

    Dry, M., Due, C., Powell, C., Chur-Hansen, A., & Burns, N. R. (2018). Assessing the utility of an online adaptive learning tool in a large undergraduate psychology course.. Psychology Teaching Review24(2), 24-37.

     

    Dry, M., & Fontaine, E. (2014). Fast and efficient discrimination of traveling salesperson problem stimulus difficulty. The Journal of Problem Solving7(1), 84-97.

    Dry, M., Preiss, A., & Wagemans, J. (2012). Clustering, randomness, and regularity: spatial distributions and human performance on the Traveling Salesperson Problem and Minimum Spanning Tree Problem. The Journal of Problem Solving4(1), 1-17.

     

    Dry, M.J., Burns, N. R., Nettelbeck, T., Farquharson, A.L., White, J.M. (2012). Dose related effects of alcohol on cognitive functioning. PLoS ONE 7(11): e50977. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050977

    Yi, S. K. M., Steyvers, M., Lee, M. D., & Dry, M. J. (2012). Wisdom of the Crowds in Combinatorial Problems. Cognitive Science, 36 (3), 452-470

    Dry, M. J., Preiss, K., & Wagemans, J. (2012). Clustering, randomness and regularity: Spatial distributions and human performance on the Traveling Salesperson Problem and Minimum Spanning Tree Problem. The Journal of Problem Solving, 4 (1), 1-17.

    Navarro, D. J., Dry, M. J., & Lee, M. D. (2012). Sampling assumptions in inductive generalization. Cognitive Science, 36, 187-223.

    Verheyen, S., De Deyne, S., Dry, M. J., & Storms, G. (2011). Uncovering contrast categories in categorization with a probabilistic threshold model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37 (6), 1515-1531.

    Verheyen, S., Stukken, L., De Deyne, S., Dry, M. J., & Storms, G. (2011). The generalized polymorphous concept account of graded structure in abstract categories. Memory & Cognition, 39 (6), 1117-1132.

    Vanpaemel, W., Verbeemen, T., Dry, M. J., Storms, G., & Verguts, T. (2010). Geometric and featural representations in semantic concepts. Memory & Cognition, 38, 962-968.

    Dry, M. J. & Storms, G. (2010). Features of graded category structure: generalizing the family resemblance and polymorphous concept models. Acta Psychologica, 133, 244-255.

    Dry, M.J., Kogo, N., Putzeys, T., & Wagemans, J. (2010) Image descriptions in early and mid-level vision: What kind of model is this and what kind of models do we really need? British Journal of Psychology, 101, 27-32.

    Dry, M. J. & Storms, G. (2009). Similar, but not the same: A comparison of the utility of directly-rated and feature-based similarity measures for generating spatial models of conceptual data.  Behaviour Research Methods, 41, 889-900.

    Dry, M. J., Navarro, D. J., Preiss, K., & Lee, M. D. (2009). The perceptual organization of point constellations. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1151-1156). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

    Stukken, L., Verheyen, S., Dry, M. J., & Storms, G. (2009). A new investigation of the nature of abstract categories. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2438-2443). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

    Dry, M. J. (2008). Using relational structure to detect symmetry: a Voronoi tessellation based model of symmetry perception. Acta Psychologica, 128, 75-90.

    De Deyne, S., Verheyen, S., Ameel, E., Vanpaemal, W., Dry, M. J., Vorspoels, W. and Storms, G. (2008). Exemplar by feature applicability matrices and other Dutch normative data for semantic concepts. Behaviour Research Methods, 40, 1030-1048.

    Dry, M. J. & Storms, G. (2008). Comparing the utility of pairwise and feature-derived similarity measures for generating spatial representations of semantic concepts. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2267-2272). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society

    Navarro, D.J, Lee, M. D., Dry, M.J, & Schultz, B. (2008). Extending and testing the Bayesian theory of generalization. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1746-1751). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.

    Dry, M. J., Lee, M. D., Vickers, D., & Hughes, P. (2006). Human performance on visually presented travelling salesperson problems with varying numbers of nodes. Journal of Problem Solving, 1, 20-32.

    Lee, M. D., & Dry, M. J. (2006). Decision making and confidence given uncertain advice. Cognitive Science, 30, 1081-1096.

    Vickers, D., Lee, M. D., Dry, M., Hughes, P., & McMahon, J. A. (2006). The aesthetic appeal of minimal ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥: Judging the attractiveness of solutions to travelling salesperson problems. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 32-42.

    
    

    Dry, M. J. (2005). Mirror symmetry perception:  Effect of proximity to the central axis. In B. G. Bara, L. W. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 612-617). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    
    

    Vickers, D., Lee, M. D., Dry, M. J., & Hughes, P. (2003). The roles of the convex hull and the number of potential intersections in performance on visually presented travelling salesperson problems. Memory & Cognition, 31, 1094-1104.

     

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