Dr Daniel Sturman
Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Daniel is an organisational psychologist and human factors researcher. His research focuses on predicting and preventing errors in high risk environments, including driving, cybersecurity and electrical power distribution. Daniel’s recent work has examined the relationships between cue-based processing, cognitive load, sustained attention, and performance in a range of technical domains. He has a particular focus on applied research, with the goal of developing assessment tools and interventions that can be used to assist industry partners in the selection, training and management of experienced personnel.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 - ongoing | Lecturer | University of Adelaide |
| 2019 - 2020 | Postdoctoral researcher | Macquarie University |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macquarie University | Australia | Combined PhD/Master Organisational Psychology | |
| Macquarie University | Australia | Bachelor Psychology (Honours) | |
| University of Newcastle Australia | Australia | Bachelor Arts |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Van Antwerpen, N., Green, E. B., Sturman, D., & Searston, R. A. (2025). The impacts of expertise, conflict, and scientific literacy on trust and belief in scientific disagreements. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 11869-1-11869-16. Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC1 |
| 2025 | Auton, J. C., & Sturman, D. (2025). Persuasion under pressure: the influence of persuasion principles and time constraints on phishing email susceptibility. Information and Computer Security, 33(5), 845-859. |
| 2025 | Sturman, D., Auton, J. C., & Morrison, B. W. (2025). Security awareness, decision style, knowledge, and phishing email detection: Moderated mediation analyses. Computers & Security, 148, 104129. Scopus6 WoS4 |
| 2025 | Auton, J. C., Sturman, D., Lekkas, D., Turnbull, D., Gray, J., Canny, B. J., & Peña, A. (2025). Virtual Multiple Mini Interviews: Implementation and evaluation for undergraduate medical, dental, and oral health degrees. Medical Teacher, 47(7), 1144-1151. Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC2 |
| 2025 | Wiggins, M. W., Auton, J. C., Sturman, D., Morrison, B. W., & Molesworth, B. R. C. (2025). Sustaining Situational Assessment in Electrical Network Power Control. Human Factors, 67(3), 185-195. Scopus1 |
| 2024 | Ahola, K., Butavicius, M., McCormac, A., & Sturman, D. (2024). Hey “CSIRI”, should I report this? Investigating the factors that influence employees to report cyber security incidents in the workplace. Information and Computer Security, 33(2), 242-266. Scopus1 WoS2 |
| 2024 | Marshall, N., Sturman, D., & Auton, J. C. (2024). Exploring the Evidence for Email Phishing Training: A Scoping Review. Computers & Security, 139, 103695. Scopus20 WoS11 |
| 2024 | Auton, J. C., & Sturman, D. (2024). Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic: the job demands and job resources associated with telework outcomes. Australian Psychologist, 59(4), 341-353. Scopus4 WoS3 |
| 2024 | Sturman, D., Bell, E. A., Auton, J. C., Breakey, G. R., & Wiggins, M. W. (2024). The roles of phishing knowledge, cue utilization, and decision styles in phishing email detection. Applied Ergonomics, 119, 104309-1-104309-11. Scopus8 WoS5 |
| 2024 | Carragher, D. J., Sturman, D., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2024). Trust in automation and the accuracy of human–algorithm teams performing one-to-one face matching tasks. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9(1), 17 pages. Scopus6 WoS6 |
| 2022 | Auton, J. C., & Sturman, D. (2022). Individual differences and compliance intentions with COVID-19 restrictions: insights from a lockdown in Melbourne (Australia). Health Promotion International, 37(3), 1-10. Scopus16 WoS15 Europe PMC9 |
| 2022 | Falkland, E. C., Wiggins, M. W., Douglas, H., Sturman, D., Auton, J. C., Shieh, L., & Westbrook, J. I. (2022). Explaining emergency physicians’ capacity to recover from interruptions. Applied Ergonomics, 105, 10 pages. Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC6 |
| 2022 | Sturman, D., Valenzuela, C., Plate, O., Tanvir, T., Auton, J. C., Bayl-Smith, P., & Wiggins, M. W. (2022). The role of cue utilization in the detection of phishing emails.. Appl Ergon, 106, 13 pages. Scopus21 WoS14 Europe PMC1 |
| 2021 | Sturman, D., Auton, J. C., & Thacker, J. (2021). Knowledge of Social Distancing Measures and Adherence to Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic.. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 32(2), 344-351. Scopus25 WoS24 Europe PMC21 |
| 2021 | Thacker, J., Sturman, D., & Auton, J. (2021). Predictors of social distancing compliance in an Australian sample. Health Education Research, 36(6), 601-614. Scopus5 WoS4 Europe PMC5 |
| 2021 | Sturman, D., Wiggins, M. W., Helton, W. S., & Auton, J. C. (2021). The development and validation of a short-duration sustained visual search task for process control environments. Applied Ergonomics, 91, 103302-1-103302-7. |
| 2021 | Sturman, D., & Wiggins, M. W. (2021). Drivers' cue utilization predicts cognitive resource consumption during a simulated driving scenario. Human Factors, 63(3), 402-414. Scopus12 WoS11 Europe PMC5 |
| 2020 | Brooks, K. R., Sturman, D., & Gwinn, O. S. (2020). Shining a light on race: Contrast and assimilation effects in the perception of skin tone and racial typicality. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 604617-1-604617-7. Scopus3 WoS2 Europe PMC1 |
| 2019 | Sturman, D., Wiggins, M., Auton, J. C., & Loft, S. (2019). Cue Utilization Differentiates Resource Allocation during Sustained Attention Simulated Rail Control Tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25(3), 317-332. Scopus21 WoS19 Europe PMC6 |
| 2019 | Brooks, K. R., Keen, E., Sturman, D., Mond, J., Stevenson, R. J., & Stephen, I. D. (2019). Muscle and fat aftereffects and the role of gender: Implications for body image disturbance. British Journal of Psychology, 111(4), 742-761. Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC12 |
| 2019 | Stephen, I. D., Hunter, K., Sturman, D., Mond, J., Stevenson, R. J., & Brooks, K. R. (2019). Experimental manipulation of visual attention affects body size adaptation but not body dissatisfaction. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 52(1), 79-87. Scopus20 WoS20 Europe PMC14 |
| 2019 | Sturman, D., Wiggins, M. W., Auton, J. C., Loft, S., Helton, W. S., Westbrook, J. I., & Braithwaite, J. (2019). Control room operators’ cue utilization predicts cognitive resource consumption during regular operational tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(AUG), 1967-1-1967-9. Scopus21 WoS18 Europe PMC8 |
| 2019 | Sturman, D., Wiggins, M., Auton, J. C., & William, H. (2019). Cue utilisation predicts control room operators’ performance in a sustained visual search task. Ergonomics, 63(1), 48-60. Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC2 |
| 2019 | Yuris, N., Wiggins, M. W., Auton, J. C., Gaicon, L., & Sturman, D. (2019). Higher cue utilization in driving supports improved driving performance and more effective visual search behaviors. Journal of Safety Research, 71, 59-66. Scopus14 WoS11 Europe PMC6 |
| 2018 | Stephen, I. D., Sturman, D., Stevenson, R. J., Mond, J., & Brooks, K. R. (2018). Visual attention mediates the relationship between body satisfaction and susceptibility to the body size adaptation effect. PLoS ONE, 13(1), e0189855. Scopus37 WoS37 Europe PMC29 |
| 2017 | Sturman, D., Stephen, I. D., Mond, J., Stevenson, R. J., & Brooks, K. R. (2017). Independent Aftereffects of Fat and Muscle: Implications for neural encoding, body space representation, and body image disturbance. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 40392. Scopus47 WoS43 Europe PMC38 |
| 2015 | Bower, M., & Sturman, D. (2015). What are the educational affordances of wearable technologies?. Computers and Education, 88, 343-353. Scopus230 WoS161 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Ahola, K., Sturman, D., Scott, N., Pattinson, M., Reeves, A., Butavicius, M., & McCormac, A. (2025). Improving the Human Firewall: Exploring the Factors that Influence Cyber-Security Incident Reporting. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Vol. 722 IFIP (pp. 116-129). Skovde, Sweden: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI WoS1 |
| 2020 | W.Wiggins, M., Auton, J., & Sturman, D. (2020). Evaluating Situation Assessment in Distributed Network Electricity Control. In Proceedings of the 2020 HFES 64th International Annual Meeting Vol. 64 (pp. 263-267). virtual online: SAGE Publications. DOI Scopus2 |
| 2020 | Bayl-Smith, P., Sturman, D., & Wiggins, M. (2020). Cue utilization, phishing feature and phishing email detection. In M. Bernhard, A. Bracciali, L. J. Camp, S. Matsuo, A. Maurushat, P. B. Rønne, & M. Sala (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) FC Conference Proceedings Vol. 12063 LNCS (pp. 56-70). Switzerland: Springer Nature. DOI Scopus13 WoS13 |
| 2019 | Auton, J. C., Wiggins, M., & Sturman, D. (2019). The Relationship between Visual and Auditory Cue Utilization. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Vol. 63 (pp. 843-847). online: Sage. DOI |
| 2019 | Sturman, D., & Wiggins, M. (2019). The Role of Cue Utilization during a Simulated Driving Scenario. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Vol. 63 (pp. 848-852). online: Sage. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2018 | Sturman, D., Wiggins, M. W., Auton, J. C., & Loft, S. (2018). Cue Utilization Predicts Resource Allocation during Rail Control Simulations: A NIRS Study. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Vol. 62 (pp. 726-730). online: Sage. DOI Scopus2 |
| 2016 | Bower, M., Sturman, D., & Alvarez, V. (2016). Perceived utility and feasibility of wearable technologies in higher education. In 15th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2016 (pp. 49-56). Sydney, Australia: UTS. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Brooks, K. R., Sturman, D., Mond, J., Stevenson, R., & Stephen, I. (2016). The Neural Encoding of Bodies along the Dimensions of Fat and Muscle. Poster session presented at the meeting of PERCEPTION. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | A study of the workplace factors associated with work addiction and depression in mothers. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Sara El-Kaissi |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Human Aspects of Cyber Resilience: Building and Testing a Measure of Cyber Resilient Culture | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mrs Agata McCormac |
| 2021 | Co-Supervisor | To determine whether the viewing of mid range fractal images helps restore attentional resources. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Andrew James Morris |
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