Gregory J. Boyle

Professor of Psychology
Associate Dean (Research)

BSc (Hons), MEd, PhD (Melbourne)
MA, PhD (Delaware)
DSc (Queensland)
Fellow, Australian Psychological Society
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

Professor Boyle has spent over three decades undertaking quantitative research in the field of psychometrics, as related to the measurement of individual differences in personality, intelligence, and motivation, as well as undertaking studies within the fields of neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and educational psychology.

In more recent years, he has applied his extensive research skills to studies within the broad fields of medical/health psychology, and has undertaken many studies within the area of women's health. Lately, he has focused his attention more on research topics pertaining to men's health.

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• A Conjoint dR-Factoring of the 8SQ/DES-IV Multivariate Mood-State Scales.
• Adverse Sexual and Psychological Effects of Male Infant Circumcision
• Aerobic exercise, mood states and menstrual cycle symptoms
• A first survey of the similarity of personality and motivation prediction of "In Situ" and experimentally controlled learning, by structured learning theory
• An overview of contemporary personality assessment
• Circumcision in adults: effect on sexual function
• Circumcision of Healthy Boys: Criminal Assault?
• Critical review of state-trait curiosity test development
• Does item homogeneity indicate internal consistency or item redundancy in psychometric scales? 
• Editors’ introduction: Contemporary perspectives on the psychology of individual differences.
• Effects of male circumcision on female arousal and orgasm
• Ending Forced Genital Cutting of Children and Violation of Their Human Rights: Ethical, Psychological and Legal Considerations
• Issues associated with the introduction of circumcision into a non-circumcising society
• Male circumcision and risk of HIV-1 infection
• Male circumcision: pain, trauma, and psychosexual sequelae
• Measurement and statistical models in the study of personality and intelligence. 
• Method of test administration as a factor in test validity: the use of a personality questionnaire in the prediction of cancer and coronary heart disease
• Models and Paradigms in Personality and Intelligence Research
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Some Psychometric Limitations
• Neonatal Circumcision: Its Long Term Harmful Effects
• Personality and employee selection: credibility regained
• Physical, Sexual and Psychological Effects of Male Infant Circumcision: an Exploratory Survey
• Psychological status of former refugee detainees from the Woomera Detention Centre now living in the Australian community.
• Psychometric appraisal of Eysenck's revised Psychoticism scale: a cross-cultural study
• Psychopathological depression superfactors in the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire.
• Re-examination of the major personality-type factors in the Cattell, Comrey and Eysenck scales: Were the factor solutions by Noller et al. optimal?
• Relationship of humour to health: A psychometric investigation
• Report order in tachistoscopic recognition
• Review of B. A. Maher & W. B. Maher's (1986) Progress in experimental personality research.
• Review of R. B. Cattell's (1983) Structured personality‑learning theory: A wholistic multivariate research approach.
• Review of the (1985) Standards for educational and psychological testing: AERA, APA and NCME.
• Review of the International Personality Disorder Examination
• Review of the Personality Self-Portrait (Revised)
• Review of the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis (2002 Edition)
• Review of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children
• Ritual and Medical Circumcision among Filipino boys: Evidence of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Schizotypal Personality Traits: An Extension of Previous Psychometric Investigations
• Self‑report measures of depression: Some psychometric considerations.
• Shortened halstead category test
• The enriched behavioral prediction equation and its impact on structured learning and the dynamic calculus
• The factor structure of "schizotypal" traits: A large replication study.
• The interaction of psychosocial and physical risk factors in the causation of mammary cancer, and its prevention through psychological methods of treatment.