Dr Stephen Whyte

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Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Business and Law

PhD (Queensland University of Technology), Master of Business (Research) (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Business (Commerce) (Queensland University of Technology)

Dr Stephen Whyte is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Behavioural Economics in the School of Economics & Finance, QUT. His research focus explores large scale decision making in mate choice settings. His work takes a multi-disciplinary approach in studying key sex differences in human behaviour, with work that bridges the fields of applied micro-economics, personality & social psychology, and evolutionary biology. His most recent research has explored such diverse topics as sex differences in nonbinary gender identification, male & female decision making in assisted reproductive & donor insemination medical environments, and preferences vs choice in cyber dating markets.

Research interests: His primary research interest lies in the area of applied micro-economics, but he has also published in journals with a social psychology, evolutionary psychology, health, scientometric, cyber-psychology, reproductive medicine and biology focus.

  • Behavioural and experimental economics
  • Gender economics
  • Public Policy & Health
  • Non-market economics
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Scientometrics
  • Reproductive medicine
  • Cyber-psychology