Norris R Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 104994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norris R Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norris R |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3523-1533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The impact of the core clerkships on medical students with chronic health conditions and student wellness
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to determine if medical students with chronic health conditions adhere to personal health appointments during their core clerkship year, the Principal Clinical Experience (PCE), barriers to doing so, and the association between missed appointments and burnout. METHODS: An email survey was sent to current medical students who had completed their PCE at Harvard Medical School. The survey assessed chronic p…
Using Generative Artificial Intelligence When Writing Letters of Recommendation
Artificial intelligence (AI) provides an opportunity to streamline tasks within academic medicine. Generative AI (genAI) models, specifically, have the capacity to generate new written content, follow detailed instructions for product improvement, and incorporate content from supplemental data sources. While a part of the professional responsibility of faculty in academic medicine, writing letters of recommendation (LORs) is often time consuming …
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic
Moral Panics
Stacking and “Stoppers”
One explanation for stacking in sports is that minorities are excluded from positions with the greatest opportunity for determining the outcome of the competition, with the place kicker in football cited as an example. This paper postulated that the short relief pitcher in baseball also has high outcome control, and it hypothesized that minorities would be underrepresented in that position as well. We classified major league pitchers from the 199…
Firescap
We develop a theoretical model and its computer‐simulation translation of evacuation response to a fire alarm, based on past research on fire emergencies and on crowd behavior as well as on our past and continuing investigation of the Beverly Hills fire disaster. The simulation model presents graphically the status of individuals and socially tied pairs in a room as they initiate evacuation—typically in response to ambiguous information—and move …
The Myth of the Madding Crowd
Elementary Social Structure and the Resolution of Ambiguity
In this test with a computer simulation model of crowds we manipulate the presence of various elements of social structure (both microstructure and macrostructure) and investigate the impact of structure on crowd outcomes. The theoretical framework and computer simulation translation on which this work is based (Johnson and Feinberg 1989) assumes an ambiguous stituation confronting a gathering in which each member can be located on a 10-point sca…
Radical leaders, moderate followers
A Methodology for Studying Stacking in Football and Baseball
This paper describes an instrument developed and used with an experimental methodology in a pilot study of stacking in football and baseball. The instrument was a positional profile purporting to represent an evaluation of young athletes on a number of position-relevant traits. Respondents were asked to assign each player to a position solely on the basis of this written evaluation. The race of the profiled player was systematically varied in ord…
"Outside Agitators" and Crowds
Computer simulation is used to investigate the success of an “outside agitator,” specifically the likelihood of a persistent extremist leading into “radical” action a gathering of moderates not otherwise disposed to militancy. The theoretical framework and computer simulation translation on which this work is based (Johnson & Feinberg forthcoming) assumes an ambiguous situation confronting a gathering in which each member can be located on a 10-p…
Panic and the Breakdown of Social Order
(1987). Panic and the Breakdown of Social Order: Popular Myth, Social Theory, Empirical Evidence. Sociological Focus: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 171-183
Panic at 'The Who Concert Stampede
I report evidence showing that panic did not cause the death and injury of numerous young people prior to a concert by the rock group, The Who, at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum in late 1979. An analysis of transcripts of interviews with patrons in attendance and police who were on duty when the deaths occurred reveals that people did not “stampede” over others in their rush to enter the Coliseum as media accounts contend. Instead, participants…
Public Opinion and the Immigrant
Cigarettes
Attendance at a Billy Graham Crusade
Journal Article Research Note: Attendance at a Billy Graham Crusade: A Resource Mobilization Approach Get access Norris R. Johnson, Norris R. Johnson University of CincinnatiUniversity of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David A. Choate, David A. Choate University of CincinnatiPastor, Ripley and Red Oak Presbyterian Churches, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Sex, Color, and Rites of Passage In Ethnographic Research
The process of ethnographic research is a rite de passage series of transitions into deeper levels of experience and knowledge. Arnold van Gennep's familiar typology of preliminal rites of separation, liminal rites of transition, and postliminal rites of incorporation, permits detection of a more latent pattern structuring the experiences to which ethnographic researchers may be routinely subjected. During ethnographic research we must learn to r…
Editors' Statement
Individual and Group Shifts to Extreme
Hypotheses that crowds shift to more militant action as a result of both individual shifts and changes in composition are tested through small groups experimentation. Subjects are asked to choose the most militant action they would take in hypothetical crowd situations and then reach group consensus. After tentative consensus, participants are instructed to leave the group if they do not agree; other subjects who were observers are permitted to j…
"Crowd Behavior as "Risky Shift
A Computer Simulation of the Emergence of Consensus in Crowds
A simple model of crowds seeking consensus for action is posited. Individual crowd members seek support from a sample of crowd members; successful ones attempt to influence the crowd toward a particular course of action. Consensus is achieved with a sufficiently reduced variability of opinions in the crowd. Independent variables are the initial distribution of opinions, crowd suggestibility and the average position of individuals seeking to influ…
Need Achievement, Phase Movement and the Business Cycle
Parsons and McClelland provide competing theories about the relationship between nAchievement (nAch) and the business cycle. McClelland maintains nAch levels are fixed by generations and are insensitive to short-term variations such as the business cycle. Parsons argues that both levels of nAch and economic activity can be viewed as manifestations of phase movement. Two hypotheses are evaluated using the featured functional positions (N = 2,370) …
Collective Behavior as Group-Induced Shift
Data from the risky shift literature are brought to bear on collective behavior. The author suggests that the extreme behavior common in collective behavior is parallel to the shift to risk in small groups decision making, and that both phenomena can be conceptualized as group-induced shifts to an extreme
Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball
Organized athletics has until recently been an American institution virtually ignored by sociologists. In the last few years, however, an increasing number of sociologists and other social scientists have begun to focus on sports and are developing a growing body of literature in the area. This new focus has resulted in publication of a number of journal articles, in sections devoted to the field at regional, national, and international meetings,…
Political Climates and Party Choice of High School Youth
P A OLITICAL SOCIALIZATION and political attitudes of young have received increasing attention in recent years. The continuity across generations of political party choice is well documented. Not all youth, however, choose party of their parents. Levin,1 writing in this journal several years ago, attempted assess extent to which political climates of opinion in various social subsystems of which adolescent is a member contribute to his political …
Panic and the Breakdown of Social Order
(1987). Panic and the Breakdown of Social Order: Popular Myth, Social Theory, Empirical Evidence. Sociological Focus: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 171-183
Panic at 'The Who Concert Stampede
I report evidence showing that panic did not cause the death and injury of numerous young people prior to a concert by the rock group, The Who, at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum in late 1979. An analysis of transcripts of interviews with patrons in attendance and police who were on duty when the deaths occurred reveals that people did not “stampede” over others in their rush to enter the Coliseum as media accounts contend. Instead, participants…
"Outside Agitators" and Crowds
Computer simulation is used to investigate the success of an “outside agitator,” specifically the likelihood of a persistent extremist leading into “radical” action a gathering of moderates not otherwise disposed to militancy. The theoretical framework and computer simulation translation on which this work is based (Johnson & Feinberg forthcoming) assumes an ambiguous situation confronting a gathering in which each member can be located on a 10-p…
A Computer Simulation of the Emergence of Consensus in Crowds
A simple model of crowds seeking consensus for action is posited. Individual crowd members seek support from a sample of crowd members; successful ones attempt to influence the crowd toward a particular course of action. Consensus is achieved with a sufficiently reduced variability of opinions in the crowd. Independent variables are the initial distribution of opinions, crowd suggestibility and the average position of individuals seeking to influ…
Stacking and “Stoppers”
One explanation for stacking in sports is that minorities are excluded from positions with the greatest opportunity for determining the outcome of the competition, with the place kicker in football cited as an example. This paper postulated that the short relief pitcher in baseball also has high outcome control, and it hypothesized that minorities would be underrepresented in that position as well. We classified major league pitchers from the 199…
Collective Behavior as Group-Induced Shift
Data from the risky shift literature are brought to bear on collective behavior. The author suggests that the extreme behavior common in collective behavior is parallel to the shift to risk in small groups decision making, and that both phenomena can be conceptualized as group-induced shifts to an extreme
Firescap
We develop a theoretical model and its computer‐simulation translation of evacuation response to a fire alarm, based on past research on fire emergencies and on crowd behavior as well as on our past and continuing investigation of the Beverly Hills fire disaster. The simulation model presents graphically the status of individuals and socially tied pairs in a room as they initiate evacuation—typically in response to ambiguous information—and move …
"Crowd Behavior as "Risky Shift
Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball
Organized athletics has until recently been an American institution virtually ignored by sociologists. In the last few years, however, an increasing number of sociologists and other social scientists have begun to focus on sports and are developing a growing body of literature in the area. This new focus has resulted in publication of a number of journal articles, in sections devoted to the field at regional, national, and international meetings,…
Sex, Color, and Rites of Passage In Ethnographic Research
The process of ethnographic research is a rite de passage series of transitions into deeper levels of experience and knowledge. Arnold van Gennep's familiar typology of preliminal rites of separation, liminal rites of transition, and postliminal rites of incorporation, permits detection of a more latent pattern structuring the experiences to which ethnographic researchers may be routinely subjected. During ethnographic research we must learn to r…
A Methodology for Studying Stacking in Football and Baseball
This paper describes an instrument developed and used with an experimental methodology in a pilot study of stacking in football and baseball. The instrument was a positional profile purporting to represent an evaluation of young athletes on a number of position-relevant traits. Respondents were asked to assign each player to a position solely on the basis of this written evaluation. The race of the profiled player was systematically varied in ord…
Radical leaders, moderate followers
Public Opinion and the Immigrant
Political Climates and Party Choice of High School Youth
P A OLITICAL SOCIALIZATION and political attitudes of young have received increasing attention in recent years. The continuity across generations of political party choice is well documented. Not all youth, however, choose party of their parents. Levin,1 writing in this journal several years ago, attempted assess extent to which political climates of opinion in various social subsystems of which adolescent is a member contribute to his political …
Attendance at a Billy Graham Crusade
Journal Article Research Note: Attendance at a Billy Graham Crusade: A Resource Mobilization Approach Get access Norris R. Johnson, Norris R. Johnson University of CincinnatiUniversity of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David A. Choate, David A. Choate University of CincinnatiPastor, Ripley and Red Oak Presbyterian Churches, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Political Climates and Party Choice of High School Youth
P A OLITICAL SOCIALIZATION and political attitudes of young have received increasing attention in recent years. The continuity across generations of political party choice is well documented. Not all youth, however, choose party of their parents. Levin,1 writing in this journal several years ago, attempted assess extent to which political climates of opinion in various social subsystems of which adolescent is a member contribute to his political …
Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball
Organized athletics has until recently been an American institution virtually ignored by sociologists. In the last few years, however, an increasing number of sociologists and other social scientists have begun to focus on sports and are developing a growing body of literature in the area. This new focus has resulted in publication of a number of journal articles, in sections devoted to the field at regional, national, and international meetings,…
Collective Behavior as Group-Induced Shift
Data from the risky shift literature are brought to bear on collective behavior. The author suggests that the extreme behavior common in collective behavior is parallel to the shift to risk in small groups decision making, and that both phenomena can be conceptualized as group-induced shifts to an extreme
Need Achievement, Phase Movement and the Business Cycle
Parsons and McClelland provide competing theories about the relationship between nAchievement (nAch) and the business cycle. McClelland maintains nAch levels are fixed by generations and are insensitive to short-term variations such as the business cycle. Parsons argues that both levels of nAch and economic activity can be viewed as manifestations of phase movement. Two hypotheses are evaluated using the featured functional positions (N = 2,370) …
"Crowd Behavior as "Risky Shift
A Computer Simulation of the Emergence of Consensus in Crowds
A simple model of crowds seeking consensus for action is posited. Individual crowd members seek support from a sample of crowd members; successful ones attempt to influence the crowd toward a particular course of action. Consensus is achieved with a sufficiently reduced variability of opinions in the crowd. Independent variables are the initial distribution of opinions, crowd suggestibility and the average position of individuals seeking to influ…
Individual and Group Shifts to Extreme
Hypotheses that crowds shift to more militant action as a result of both individual shifts and changes in composition are tested through small groups experimentation. Subjects are asked to choose the most militant action they would take in hypothetical crowd situations and then reach group consensus. After tentative consensus, participants are instructed to leave the group if they do not agree; other subjects who were observers are permitted to j…
Editors' Statement
Attendance at a Billy Graham Crusade
Journal Article Research Note: Attendance at a Billy Graham Crusade: A Resource Mobilization Approach Get access Norris R. Johnson, Norris R. Johnson University of CincinnatiUniversity of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David A. Choate, David A. Choate University of CincinnatiPastor, Ripley and Red Oak Presbyterian Churches, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Sex, Color, and Rites of Passage In Ethnographic Research
The process of ethnographic research is a rite de passage series of transitions into deeper levels of experience and knowledge. Arnold van Gennep's familiar typology of preliminal rites of separation, liminal rites of transition, and postliminal rites of incorporation, permits detection of a more latent pattern structuring the experiences to which ethnographic researchers may be routinely subjected. During ethnographic research we must learn to r…
Cigarettes
Public Opinion and the Immigrant
Panic and the Breakdown of Social Order
(1987). Panic and the Breakdown of Social Order: Popular Myth, Social Theory, Empirical Evidence. Sociological Focus: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 171-183
Panic at 'The Who Concert Stampede
I report evidence showing that panic did not cause the death and injury of numerous young people prior to a concert by the rock group, The Who, at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum in late 1979. An analysis of transcripts of interviews with patrons in attendance and police who were on duty when the deaths occurred reveals that people did not “stampede” over others in their rush to enter the Coliseum as media accounts contend. Instead, participants…
A Methodology for Studying Stacking in Football and Baseball
This paper describes an instrument developed and used with an experimental methodology in a pilot study of stacking in football and baseball. The instrument was a positional profile purporting to represent an evaluation of young athletes on a number of position-relevant traits. Respondents were asked to assign each player to a position solely on the basis of this written evaluation. The race of the profiled player was systematically varied in ord…
"Outside Agitators" and Crowds
Computer simulation is used to investigate the success of an “outside agitator,” specifically the likelihood of a persistent extremist leading into “radical” action a gathering of moderates not otherwise disposed to militancy. The theoretical framework and computer simulation translation on which this work is based (Johnson & Feinberg forthcoming) assumes an ambiguous situation confronting a gathering in which each member can be located on a 10-p…
Elementary Social Structure and the Resolution of Ambiguity
In this test with a computer simulation model of crowds we manipulate the presence of various elements of social structure (both microstructure and macrostructure) and investigate the impact of structure on crowd outcomes. The theoretical framework and computer simulation translation on which this work is based (Johnson and Feinberg 1989) assumes an ambiguous stituation confronting a gathering in which each member can be located on a 10-point sca…
Radical leaders, moderate followers
The Myth of the Madding Crowd
Stacking and “Stoppers”
One explanation for stacking in sports is that minorities are excluded from positions with the greatest opportunity for determining the outcome of the competition, with the place kicker in football cited as an example. This paper postulated that the short relief pitcher in baseball also has high outcome control, and it hypothesized that minorities would be underrepresented in that position as well. We classified major league pitchers from the 199…
Firescap
We develop a theoretical model and its computer‐simulation translation of evacuation response to a fire alarm, based on past research on fire emergencies and on crowd behavior as well as on our past and continuing investigation of the Beverly Hills fire disaster. The simulation model presents graphically the status of individuals and socially tied pairs in a room as they initiate evacuation—typically in response to ambiguous information—and move …
Moral Panics
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic
Using Generative Artificial Intelligence When Writing Letters of Recommendation
Artificial intelligence (AI) provides an opportunity to streamline tasks within academic medicine. Generative AI (genAI) models, specifically, have the capacity to generate new written content, follow detailed instructions for product improvement, and incorporate content from supplemental data sources. While a part of the professional responsibility of faculty in academic medicine, writing letters of recommendation (LORs) is often time consuming …
The impact of the core clerkships on medical students with chronic health conditions and student wellness
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to determine if medical students with chronic health conditions adhere to personal health appointments during their core clerkship year, the Principal Clinical Experience (PCE), barriers to doing so, and the association between missed appointments and burnout. METHODS: An email survey was sent to current medical students who had completed their PCE at Harvard Medical School. The survey assessed chronic p…
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