D Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 16199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0098-0312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Civilian Mindsets and Attitudes toward Peace in Wartime
Under what conditions do civilians in countries at war support peace settlements? This study develops a theory of civilian attitudes that integrates two major forces shaping wartime thinking to illuminate when people support peaceful compromise. We argue that survival and injustice are two crucial and often competing mindsets that shape how individuals understand and navigate violent conflicts. Civilians exhibiting an injustice-oriented mindset f…
Framing the Exit
What shapes public support for withdrawal from an ongoing military intervention? While there is a vast literature on the public’s support for new military interventions and its approval of interventions that are underway, there is very little research on public opinion around the explicit question of ending a military campaign on foreign soil and “going home.” This is surprising, given the salience of questions about terminating military interven…
The Other Legitimate Game in Town? Understanding Public Support for the Caliphate in the Islamic World
In recent years, essentialist claims about the incompatibility of democracy and Islam have been swept away by public opinion research revealing that democracy is widely supported in the Islamic world. However, while this literature has demonstrated the popularity of democracy over authoritarianism, we argue that it misses a key piece of the puzzle by not examining Muslim public support for an alternative model of government: the Caliphate system.…
Rebel Leader Age and the Outcomes of Civil Wars
What determines the outcomes of civil wars? Existing literature highlights numerous factors at the systemic, state, and organizational levels of analysis. Yet there is little research on the attributes of rebel leaders in shaping war outcomes despite ample theories of their importance in steering their organizations. This article focuses on rebel leaders’ age as one key driver of their behavior. Applying insights from developmental psychology to …
Introducing Role
Existing literature on civil wars relies predominantly on state- and organization-level variables to understand conflict dynamics and outcomes. In this article, we propose that rebel leaders' personal backgrounds and experiences are also key to explaining the behavior of the organizations they lead. Just as scholars have long highlighted the importance of state leaders' biographical characteristics in interstate war and diplomacy, we argue that t…
Putting Terror in Its Place
An American’s yearly chance of being killed by a terrorist attack sits at roughly 1 in 3.5 million. Yet, over 40 percent of Americans consistently believe that they or their family members are likely to be a terror victim. Can these inflated estimates of the risks of terrorism be brought closer to reality? With trillions of dollars spent on the “War on Terror,” this question is not just theoretically but practically important. In order to investi…
Nationalism, Threat, and Support for External Intervention
What drives citizens’ attitudes toward external military intervention in a society experiencing armed conflict? From colonial Algeria to contemporary Afghanistan, conventional wisdom holds that nationalism is a critical source of opposition and resistance to such intervention. In contrast, we argue that the impact of nationalism on views of external intervention hinges on the strategic context facing the target nation. When the country’s principa…
Identity, Ideology, and Information
This article explores the amount and sources of support for the Islamic State among Iraqis. We argue that, in addition to shared identity and ideology, a neglected factor in debates about support for Islamist militancy is the messaging and information that individuals receive about a given group. We test these arguments using regression analysis on public opinion data collected in Iraq in April 2015. The analyses largely support our contentions, …
HIV testing, counselling and prophylaxis following sexual assault
The impact of possible infection with HIV in survivors of sexual assault has received little attention in the first decade of the AIDS epidemic. This maybe due, in part, to society’s conflicting attitudes and beliefs concerning STDs, AIDS, and rape. This paper (reprinted from JAMA) presents the proposals of the Working Group on HIV Testing, Counseling and Prophylaxis after Sexual Assault (USA) for the development of policies and principles of cli…
Discussing safer sex in HIV counselling
Although it is acknowledged that counselling can be an important factor in behaviour change, we lack information on how HIV counselling works in practice. Research is reported based on transcriptions of audio-tapes of counselling drawn from seven hospital centres in England and the USA. It is shown that communication occurs in the context of three different formats. Certain formats and conversational strategies used by counsellors produce far gre…
Design and methods in a multi-center case-control interview study
We conducted a case-control study in ten areas of the United States in which a total of 2,982 bladder cancer patients and 5,782 population controls were interviewed. We employed a variety of existing and new techniques to reduce bias and to monitor the quality of data collected. We review here many of the design elements and field methods that can be generally applied in epidemiologic studies, particularly multi-center interview studies, and expl…
Introducing Role
Existing literature on civil wars relies predominantly on state- and organization-level variables to understand conflict dynamics and outcomes. In this article, we propose that rebel leaders' personal backgrounds and experiences are also key to explaining the behavior of the organizations they lead. Just as scholars have long highlighted the importance of state leaders' biographical characteristics in interstate war and diplomacy, we argue that t…
Design and methods in a multi-center case-control interview study
We conducted a case-control study in ten areas of the United States in which a total of 2,982 bladder cancer patients and 5,782 population controls were interviewed. We employed a variety of existing and new techniques to reduce bias and to monitor the quality of data collected. We review here many of the design elements and field methods that can be generally applied in epidemiologic studies, particularly multi-center interview studies, and expl…
Rebel Leader Age and the Outcomes of Civil Wars
What determines the outcomes of civil wars? Existing literature highlights numerous factors at the systemic, state, and organizational levels of analysis. Yet there is little research on the attributes of rebel leaders in shaping war outcomes despite ample theories of their importance in steering their organizations. This article focuses on rebel leaders’ age as one key driver of their behavior. Applying insights from developmental psychology to …
Putting Terror in Its Place
An American’s yearly chance of being killed by a terrorist attack sits at roughly 1 in 3.5 million. Yet, over 40 percent of Americans consistently believe that they or their family members are likely to be a terror victim. Can these inflated estimates of the risks of terrorism be brought closer to reality? With trillions of dollars spent on the “War on Terror,” this question is not just theoretically but practically important. In order to investi…
Identity, Ideology, and Information
This article explores the amount and sources of support for the Islamic State among Iraqis. We argue that, in addition to shared identity and ideology, a neglected factor in debates about support for Islamist militancy is the messaging and information that individuals receive about a given group. We test these arguments using regression analysis on public opinion data collected in Iraq in April 2015. The analyses largely support our contentions, …
Nationalism, Threat, and Support for External Intervention
What drives citizens’ attitudes toward external military intervention in a society experiencing armed conflict? From colonial Algeria to contemporary Afghanistan, conventional wisdom holds that nationalism is a critical source of opposition and resistance to such intervention. In contrast, we argue that the impact of nationalism on views of external intervention hinges on the strategic context facing the target nation. When the country’s principa…
Civilian Mindsets and Attitudes toward Peace in Wartime
Under what conditions do civilians in countries at war support peace settlements? This study develops a theory of civilian attitudes that integrates two major forces shaping wartime thinking to illuminate when people support peaceful compromise. We argue that survival and injustice are two crucial and often competing mindsets that shape how individuals understand and navigate violent conflicts. Civilians exhibiting an injustice-oriented mindset f…
Design and methods in a multi-center case-control interview study
We conducted a case-control study in ten areas of the United States in which a total of 2,982 bladder cancer patients and 5,782 population controls were interviewed. We employed a variety of existing and new techniques to reduce bias and to monitor the quality of data collected. We review here many of the design elements and field methods that can be generally applied in epidemiologic studies, particularly multi-center interview studies, and expl…
Discussing safer sex in HIV counselling
Although it is acknowledged that counselling can be an important factor in behaviour change, we lack information on how HIV counselling works in practice. Research is reported based on transcriptions of audio-tapes of counselling drawn from seven hospital centres in England and the USA. It is shown that communication occurs in the context of three different formats. Certain formats and conversational strategies used by counsellors produce far gre…
HIV testing, counselling and prophylaxis following sexual assault
The impact of possible infection with HIV in survivors of sexual assault has received little attention in the first decade of the AIDS epidemic. This maybe due, in part, to society’s conflicting attitudes and beliefs concerning STDs, AIDS, and rape. This paper (reprinted from JAMA) presents the proposals of the Working Group on HIV Testing, Counseling and Prophylaxis after Sexual Assault (USA) for the development of policies and principles of cli…
Identity, Ideology, and Information
This article explores the amount and sources of support for the Islamic State among Iraqis. We argue that, in addition to shared identity and ideology, a neglected factor in debates about support for Islamist militancy is the messaging and information that individuals receive about a given group. We test these arguments using regression analysis on public opinion data collected in Iraq in April 2015. The analyses largely support our contentions, …
Nationalism, Threat, and Support for External Intervention
What drives citizens’ attitudes toward external military intervention in a society experiencing armed conflict? From colonial Algeria to contemporary Afghanistan, conventional wisdom holds that nationalism is a critical source of opposition and resistance to such intervention. In contrast, we argue that the impact of nationalism on views of external intervention hinges on the strategic context facing the target nation. When the country’s principa…
Putting Terror in Its Place
An American’s yearly chance of being killed by a terrorist attack sits at roughly 1 in 3.5 million. Yet, over 40 percent of Americans consistently believe that they or their family members are likely to be a terror victim. Can these inflated estimates of the risks of terrorism be brought closer to reality? With trillions of dollars spent on the “War on Terror,” this question is not just theoretically but practically important. In order to investi…
Introducing Role
Existing literature on civil wars relies predominantly on state- and organization-level variables to understand conflict dynamics and outcomes. In this article, we propose that rebel leaders' personal backgrounds and experiences are also key to explaining the behavior of the organizations they lead. Just as scholars have long highlighted the importance of state leaders' biographical characteristics in interstate war and diplomacy, we argue that t…
The Other Legitimate Game in Town? Understanding Public Support for the Caliphate in the Islamic World
In recent years, essentialist claims about the incompatibility of democracy and Islam have been swept away by public opinion research revealing that democracy is widely supported in the Islamic world. However, while this literature has demonstrated the popularity of democracy over authoritarianism, we argue that it misses a key piece of the puzzle by not examining Muslim public support for an alternative model of government: the Caliphate system.…
Rebel Leader Age and the Outcomes of Civil Wars
What determines the outcomes of civil wars? Existing literature highlights numerous factors at the systemic, state, and organizational levels of analysis. Yet there is little research on the attributes of rebel leaders in shaping war outcomes despite ample theories of their importance in steering their organizations. This article focuses on rebel leaders’ age as one key driver of their behavior. Applying insights from developmental psychology to …
Civilian Mindsets and Attitudes toward Peace in Wartime
Under what conditions do civilians in countries at war support peace settlements? This study develops a theory of civilian attitudes that integrates two major forces shaping wartime thinking to illuminate when people support peaceful compromise. We argue that survival and injustice are two crucial and often competing mindsets that shape how individuals understand and navigate violent conflicts. Civilians exhibiting an injustice-oriented mindset f…
Framing the Exit
What shapes public support for withdrawal from an ongoing military intervention? While there is a vast literature on the public’s support for new military interventions and its approval of interventions that are underway, there is very little research on public opinion around the explicit question of ending a military campaign on foreign soil and “going home.” This is surprising, given the salience of questions about terminating military interven…
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works)