Robert W Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 79864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Worcester State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0438-3531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 92 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 92 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Multi-Experience Framing
Hedonic experiences often involve multiple components that are experienced simultaneously. When watching a video clip, for instance, consumers simultaneously experience acoustic and visual elements. The authors study how framing the same experience as either a single whole (single-experience framing) or as a combination of multiple simultaneous experiences (multi-experience framing) shapes hedonic enjoyment. Across 12 studies that span a variety …
Beyond Precision
The long nineteenth century—the period from the end of the French Revolution to the start of World War I—saw huge transformations in the body of astronomical knowledge and what astronomers regarded as the boundaries and limits of legitimate astronomy. These changes resulted from the complex interplay of scientific, technical, social, political and cultural factors. In this paper, I will examine three features of astronomy in the long nineteenth c…
The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on Behaviour into Public Health Economic Models
This is the first attempt to rigorously and coherently propose methods to incorporate the influences on behaviour into health economic models of public health interventions. It may not always be feasible or necessary to model the influences on behaviour explicitly, but it is essential to develop an understanding of the key influences. Changing behaviour and maintaining that behaviour change could have different influences; thus, there could be be…
Michael Hoskin (1930-2021)
Promise and peril
Our study highlighted that stakeholder priorities and a limited understanding about public health systems influenced how reforms were implemented. Our findings support calls for modernized and inclusive governance, stable public health funding, and investment in the public health workforce, which may help inform future reforms
Self-esteem influences the willingness to engage in Covid-19 prevention behavior and persuasion efficacy
The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era
In The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era: An Intellectual History, Carli N. Conklin tackles one of the enduring intellectual puzzles of the founding era: what did “pursuit of happiness” mean and how did it wind up in the Declaration of Independence? Conklin sees two schools of thought. In one, “pursuit of happiness” was synonymous with property in the Lockean formulation. In the other, which Conklin considers dominant, it was merely a clev…
Italic>Under One Sky
The role of holistic processing in simultaneous consumption
People frequently consume multiple things simultaneously, such as listening to music while eating a snack. In this research, we show that the enjoyment of a simultaneous consumption experience depends on how one processes the multiple stimuli. Holistic processors focus more on how the multiple components come together as part of a coherent overall experience, while analytic processors focus more on each component as an isolated distinct experienc…
Our Suffering Brethren
Our Suffering Brethren: Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States Our Suffering Brethren: Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States. By David J. Dzurec. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $27.95.) Robert W Smith Robert W Smith Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …
The Meaning of Distraction
Consumers often encounter advertisements in the background while primarily focused on other stimuli (e.g., while multitasking). Consumers' perceived level of distraction by these background ads serves as a metacognitive cue from which inferences are drawn. When consumers perceive themselves to be relatively distracted by a background advertisement, they draw on an underlying lay theory that distraction implies interest in the contents of the dist…
Diplomacy in Black and White
Book Review| October 01 2016 Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance. By Ronald Angelo Johnson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. xv + 241 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Robert W. Smith Robert W. Smith Worcester State University Robe…
Development of Cross-Sector Dialogues on Ethics
This article explores how relations between non-governmental (NGO) and civil society (CSO) organizations and the government allow these entities to promote ethical behavior in public administration. It postulates that NGOs and CSOs are in the best position to embrace the demand-side approach to ethics reform precisely because of their ability to create a cross-sector dialogue on the imperative of ethics in government. Using insights gained from e…
An Audience of One
Behavioral targeting" is an Internet-based targeting strategy that delivers digital ads to individuals based on their online behavior (e.g., search, shopping). This research explores the unique ways in which consumers respond to ads using this type of targeting (vs. to ads that use more traditional forms of targeting), demonstrating that a behaviorally targeted ad can act as a social label even when it contains no explicit labeling information. I…
Investigating Variation in Replicability
Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, 10 effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prejudice – showed weak support for replicability. And two effects – flag priming influencing conservatism and …
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
While direct replications such as the “Many Labs” project are extremely valuable in testing the reliability of published findings across laboratories, they reflect the common reliance in psychology on single vignettes or stimuli, which limits the scope of the conclusions that can be reached. New experimental tools and statistical techniques make it easier to routinely sample stimuli, and to appropriately treat them as random factors. We encourage…
Lost in the crowd
Discoverers of the Universe
More for the Many
Donations to large numbers of victims are typically muted relative to donations to a single identified victim. This article shows that people can donate more to large numbers of victims if these victims are perceived as entitative--comprising a single, coherent unit. For example, donations to help children in need are higher when the children comprise a family than when they have no explicit group membership. The same effect is observed on donati…
Revolutionary Negotiations
Leonard J. Sadosky bills Revolutionary Negotiations as a book “about how the United States of America came to be” (p. 1). More precisely, it portrays how the United States negotiated itself into existence. Three systems shaped the colonial and Atlantic worlds: the Westphalian system of European nation-states, the borderlands system of diplomacy with the Indian tribes (a prelude to the Westphalian system), and the Philadelphian system of American …
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Ed Barrow
Chief Bender's Burden
Social History of the United States
Collaboration, competition, and the early history of radio astronomy
Investigating Variation in Replicability
Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, 10 effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prejudice – showed weak support for replicability. And two effects – flag priming influencing conservatism and …
Peace and palaver
International relations in pre-colonial West Africa were conducted in accordance with customary law, which exhibited broadly similar characteristics over a wide area. Trade and politics, linking the coast, the forest and the savannah, led to the development of diplomacy in the more centrally-organized states. Inter-African embassies enjoyed a degree of prestige and immunity comparable to that which protected European diplomacy, and a widely accep…
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
While direct replications such as the “Many Labs” project are extremely valuable in testing the reliability of published findings across laboratories, they reflect the common reliance in psychology on single vignettes or stimuli, which limits the scope of the conclusions that can be reached. New experimental tools and statistical techniques make it easier to routinely sample stimuli, and to appropriately treat them as random factors. We encourage…
More for the Many
Donations to large numbers of victims are typically muted relative to donations to a single identified victim. This article shows that people can donate more to large numbers of victims if these victims are perceived as entitative--comprising a single, coherent unit. For example, donations to help children in need are higher when the children comprise a family than when they have no explicit group membership. The same effect is observed on donati…
Viewing the Earth
Viewing the Earth examines the role played by interest groups in shaping the process of technological change, offering valuable insights into how technologies evolve. It traces the history of Landsat from its origins through the launch and use of the first few satellites, showing how a variety of forces shape the form and the eventual reception of any new technology.The Landsat earth resources satellite system was a project of The National Aerona…
The Meaning of Distraction
Consumers often encounter advertisements in the background while primarily focused on other stimuli (e.g., while multitasking). Consumers' perceived level of distraction by these background ads serves as a metacognitive cue from which inferences are drawn. When consumers perceive themselves to be relatively distracted by a background advertisement, they draw on an underlying lay theory that distraction implies interest in the contents of the dist…
An Audience of One
Behavioral targeting" is an Internet-based targeting strategy that delivers digital ads to individuals based on their online behavior (e.g., search, shopping). This research explores the unique ways in which consumers respond to ads using this type of targeting (vs. to ads that use more traditional forms of targeting), demonstrating that a behaviorally targeted ad can act as a social label even when it contains no explicit labeling information. I…
Corporate Ethics Officers And Government Ethics Administrators
As society enters the next millennium, ethics transgressions continue to make headlines. A Walker Research poll found 57% of public employees were aware of an ethical violation in the past 2 years. Similarly, an Ethics Officer Association-sponsored poll found that 48% of corporate employees admitted to unethical or illegal acts in 1996. Most governments have ethics boards or commissions, and corporations have ethics or compliance offices. Despite…
Excessive Maritime Claims
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The Cambridge Network in Action
The role of holistic processing in simultaneous consumption
People frequently consume multiple things simultaneously, such as listening to music while eating a snack. In this research, we show that the enjoyment of a simultaneous consumption experience depends on how one processes the multiple stimuli. Holistic processors focus more on how the multiple components come together as part of a coherent overall experience, while analytic processors focus more on each component as an isolated distinct experienc…
Revolutionary Negotiations
Leonard J. Sadosky bills Revolutionary Negotiations as a book “about how the United States of America came to be” (p. 1). More precisely, it portrays how the United States negotiated itself into existence. Three systems shaped the colonial and Atlantic worlds: the Westphalian system of European nation-states, the borderlands system of diplomacy with the Indian tribes (a prelude to the Westphalian system), and the Philadelphian system of American …
Planet Simpson
Who Discovered the Expanding Universe
L'expansion de l'univers est reconnue comme un fait mais peut etre decrite comme une decouverte. L'A. analyse le concept de la decouverte scientifique, rappelle les principes d'Einstein qui l'ont conduit a la theorie de l'univers en expansion et decrit comment Hubble (E.) fut associe a la decouverte de l'univers en expansion
Counting on Invention
The Maritime Boundaries of the United States
RESIDENT Gerald R. Ford on April 13, 1976, signed into law the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, effective March 1, 1977.1 The seaward limit of the fishery zone is to be a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.2 This law affects fishery jurisdiction over marine areas off the coasts of the fifty states and of the territories…
Boundary Issues Created by Extended National Marine Jurisdiction
The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture
The study of early American diplomacy is a lonely field, stemming from the perception that it has remained outside the recent scholarship that has transformed the study of the early republic. Todd Estes bridges that gap in The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of the Early American Political Culture. Building on the work of Simon P. Newman and David Waldstriecher, Estes uses the Jay Treaty debate to explore the creation of a pu…
The Influence of Teacher Background on the Inclusion of Multicultural Education
Nigerian Historical Studies
The forum
Promise and peril
Our study highlighted that stakeholder priorities and a limited understanding about public health systems influenced how reforms were implemented. Our findings support calls for modernized and inclusive governance, stable public health funding, and investment in the public health workforce, which may help inform future reforms
Barnstorming to Heaven
Schooling and the Formation of Male Students' Gender Identities
This article is an exploration of the role of schooling in the formation of male students' gender identities. Key dimensions of gender identity for males are described. The author focuses on the preparation of male preservice social studies teachers, particularly concerning their awareness of their own gendered identity and the significance of gender in social studies. Three male preservice social studies teachers were asked to reflect upon and r…
MacArthur in Korea
Journal Article MacArthur in Korea: The Naked Emperor. By Robert Smith. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 256 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $16.50.) Get access Carol M. Petillo Carol M. Petillo Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 765–766, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903239 Published: 01 December 1982
Christians and Communists
Christians and Communists: a Study of relations between Church and State in Eastern Europe Get access Christians and Communists: a Study of relations between Church and State in Eastern Europe. Foreword by John W. Lawrence. London, National Peace Council [ 1953]. 36 pp. (Peace Aims Pamphlet No. 55). 812′ ′×512′ ′ . 2s. Robert Smith Robert Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume …
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Shop talk
Refutation" and "Rebuttal
IN MY TEACHING of students in the University of Virginia's Law School, I was interested to find that when the oral advocate answered his opponent's argument the process was termed rebuttal. One was said to rebut when he weakened or destroyed his adversary's This was the very meaning that I, a teacher of speech, had always heard applied to refutation. This prompted me to wonder if the modern speech profession did in fact have a basis for such a cl…
Peace and palaver
International relations in pre-colonial West Africa were conducted in accordance with customary law, which exhibited broadly similar characteristics over a wide area. Trade and politics, linking the coast, the forest and the savannah, led to the development of diplomacy in the more centrally-organized states. Inter-African embassies enjoyed a degree of prestige and immunity comparable to that which protected European diplomacy, and a widely accep…
The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria
The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria
I: The Cross Roads of the East.- A Greek Outpost.- Economic Problems.- Cultural and Scientific Growth.- The Alexandrian Canon.- II: Temperament and Audiences of Alexandria.- Ethnic Differences.- Dion's Description of the Alexandrians.- Persecution and Violence.- III: Spokesmen for Truth: The Secular Speakers.- Well-known Orators.- The Boule.- The Embassies.- The Court Room.- IV: Spokesmen for Truth (Continued): Christian Preachers.- The Early Chu…
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The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia
In 1947 a group of Yoruba-speaking fishermen who had been persecuted because of their religious beliefs founded their own community in order to worship in peace. Although located in an impoverished part of Nigeria, within a few years the village enjoyed remarkable economic success. This was partly because the fishermen held all goods in common, pooled the profits in the community treasury, and attempted to reduce the importance of the family and …
Boundary Issues Created by Extended National Marine Jurisdiction
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Essay Review
The Maritime Boundaries of the United States
RESIDENT Gerald R. Ford on April 13, 1976, signed into law the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, effective March 1, 1977.1 The seaward limit of the fishery zone is to be a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.2 This law affects fishery jurisdiction over marine areas off the coasts of the fifty states and of the territories…
Nigerian Historical Studies
MacArthur in Korea
Journal Article MacArthur in Korea: The Naked Emperor. By Robert Smith. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 256 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $16.50.) Get access Carol M. Petillo Carol M. Petillo Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 765–766, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903239 Published: 01 December 1982
Milestones in Nigerian History
Frame of the Universe
Beyond Velikovsky
Cosmological Constants
Exclusive Economic Zone Claims
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The Cambridge Network in Action
Astronomer by Chance by Bernard Lovell
636 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE should be on the short list of essential reading for anyone who wants to appreciate the Apollo experience. As the United States debates President George Bush’s call for a long-term commitment to human exploration of the solar system, with an initial footfall on Mars proposed for 2019 (the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing), it is worth reflecting on just how singular was that experience and on…
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