Publications

Perception of Risk

Studies of risk perception examine the judgments people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid ri...

Frailty in elderly people

The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

This book, first published in 1979, is about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environm...

In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.

How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiate...

A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity

Summary An eleven item clinician-administered Mania Rating Scale (MRS) is introduced, and its reliability, validity and sensitivity are examined. There was a high correlation be...

Guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology.

In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming p...

PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISENGAGEMENT AT WORK.

This study began with the premise that people can use varying degrees of their selves, physically, cognitively, and emotionally, in work role performances, which has implication...

Stages and processes of self-change of smoking: Toward an integrative model of change.

An integrative model of change was applied to the study of 872 Ss (mean age 40 yrs) who were changing their smoking habits on their own. Ss represented the following 5 stages of...

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates.

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable ...

The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review

The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. This review t...

k-ANONYMITY: A MODEL FOR PROTECTING PRIVACY

Consider a data holder, such as a hospital or a bank, that has a privately held collection of person-specific, field structured data. Suppose the data holder wants to share a ve...

Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies

Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or tool kit of habits, skills, and styles from which ...