Rate My Professor Sabina Kleitman

Professor Sabina Kleitman is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney, where she leads the Cognitive and Decision Sciences Research Lab (CODES). Her academic background includes a PhD in Psychology from the University of Sydney completed in 2003, focusing on decision-making, metacognition, and self-awareness. She also holds a First Class Honours degree in Psychology from 1996 and a Bachelor of Arts from 1995, both from the University of Sydney. Early in her career, Kleitman served as a Research Associate at the University of Western Australia from July 2000 to July 2002. She has been appointed at the University of Sydney since 2011, including as Associate Professor from 2011 to 2016 and in her current professorial role since 2018.

Kleitman's research specializations include differential psychology, educational psychology, human factors, metacognition, decision-making, self-awareness, adaptable cognition, and cognitive problem-solving. Her work examines confidence calibration, individual differences in heuristics and biases, resilience, team decision-making, and psychological adaptations during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The CODES Lab investigates cognitive bases of individual and team decision-making, features of successful cyber-deception, efficacy of simulation-based assessments, impostor phenomenon, transformational leadership, and choices impacting wellbeing. With over 7,200 citations on Google Scholar, her key publications feature "Extracurricular school activities: The good, the bad, and the nonlinear" (2002), "School athletic participation: Mostly gain with little pain" (2003), "The role of individual differences in the accuracy of confidence judgments" (2002), "Self-confidence and metacognitive processes" (2007), "Impostor phenomenon measurement scales: a systematic review" (2019), "An integrative process model of resilience in an academic context" (2021), and recent studies on dyadic collective intelligence and COVID-19 booster hesitancy. She received the University of Sydney Citation for Excellence in Teaching Award in 2011. Kleitman supervises PhD students and engages in transdisciplinary collaborations across psychology, education, defence sciences, and computer science.