Eric Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 105960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0147-6118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dividends and Disconnects: Involving Public and Stakeholder Groups in the Development of a Modelling Study Exploring Income Policy and Health
Lament: Measuring a Christian Meaning-Making Coping Practice
Research demonstrates that people draw on their religions in coping with difficult life circumstances, and that more religious people tend to cope better than less religious people. Lament is a religious prayer practice that constitutes a form of meaning-making coping. Here, we explicate this form of coping and, in a series of three studies with Christian participants, report on the development of a lament scale. In the first study, we develop it…
Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999–2002
A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ …
God wastes nothing: A consensual qualitative study of coping among Catholic individuals with cancer diagnoses
While religious meaning-making has been extensively studied, emic religious coping remains largely unexplored. This consensual qualitative research study explored Catholic cancer survivors' ( N = 22) descriptions of drawing on their religious framework throughout their cancer journeys. Findings revealed distinctive Catholic resources such as the power of blessings, drawing comfort from the saints and sacraments, and "offering up" suffering as a f…
Suffering with Christ: Emic christian coping and relation to well-being
Current measures of religious coping are generally etic in nature, measuring constructs across religions. Emic variables (i.e., those specific to particular religions) are often left out, which limits our ability to assess religious/spiritual coping during times of stress and adversity. Here we provide findings from three studies we conducted to develop and test an emic Christian meaning-making coping method: identifying with Christ in his suffer…
The varieties of redemptive experiences: A qualitative study of meaning-making in evangelical Christian cancer patients
Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling: With Applications for the Social Sciences
Agent-Based Modelling; ABM; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Computational social science; Social simulation; Population sciences
Analysis: Frameworks and Theories for Social Simulation
Having discussed the current state-of-the-art in modelling for the social sciences, we will begin to delve more deeply into the modelling frameworks discussed thus far. Both Alife and social science simulation will be studied using these modelling frameworks, which will allow us to examine the limitations of these approaches to modelling. We will then attempt to develop a framework for social science modelling, taking into account the needs of th…
Quantifying paradigm change in demography
Demography is a uniquely empirical research area amongst the social sciences. We posit that the same principle of empiricism should be applied to studies of the population sciences as a discipline, contributing to greater self-awareness amongst its practit
When Demography Met Social Simulation: A Tale of Two Modelling Approaches
In this paper we present an agent-based model of a human population, designed to illustrate the potential synergies between demography and agent-based social simulation. In the modelling process, we take advantage of the perspectives of both disciplines: demography being more focused on matching statistical models to empirical data, and social simulation on explanations of social mechanisms underlying the observed phenomena. This work is based on…
Probability and Social Science. Methodological Relationships between the Two Approaches
No abstract available
Reforging the Wedding Ring: Exploring a Semi-Artificial Model of Population for the United Kingdom with Gaussian process emulators
We extend the "Wedding Ringâ agent-based model of marriage formation to include some empirical information on the natural population change for the United Kingdom together with behavioural explanations that drive the observed nuptiality trends
Michael Slote’s Rejection of Neo-Aristotelian Ethics
Humors and substances: Ideas of the body in New Guinea - By Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew Strathern
Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea
Reforging the Wedding Ring: Exploring a Semi-Artificial Model of Population for the United Kingdom with Gaussian process emulators
We extend the "Wedding Ringâ agent-based model of marriage formation to include some empirical information on the natural population change for the United Kingdom together with behavioural explanations that drive the observed nuptiality trends
Quantifying paradigm change in demography
Demography is a uniquely empirical research area amongst the social sciences. We posit that the same principle of empiricism should be applied to studies of the population sciences as a discipline, contributing to greater self-awareness amongst its practit
God wastes nothing: A consensual qualitative study of coping among Catholic individuals with cancer diagnoses
While religious meaning-making has been extensively studied, emic religious coping remains largely unexplored. This consensual qualitative research study explored Catholic cancer survivors' ( N = 22) descriptions of drawing on their religious framework throughout their cancer journeys. Findings revealed distinctive Catholic resources such as the power of blessings, drawing comfort from the saints and sacraments, and "offering up" suffering as a f…
Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea
Humors and substances: Ideas of the body in New Guinea - By Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew Strathern
Michael Slote’s Rejection of Neo-Aristotelian Ethics
When Demography Met Social Simulation: A Tale of Two Modelling Approaches
In this paper we present an agent-based model of a human population, designed to illustrate the potential synergies between demography and agent-based social simulation. In the modelling process, we take advantage of the perspectives of both disciplines: demography being more focused on matching statistical models to empirical data, and social simulation on explanations of social mechanisms underlying the observed phenomena. This work is based on…
Probability and Social Science. Methodological Relationships between the Two Approaches
No abstract available
Reforging the Wedding Ring: Exploring a Semi-Artificial Model of Population for the United Kingdom with Gaussian process emulators
We extend the "Wedding Ringâ agent-based model of marriage formation to include some empirical information on the natural population change for the United Kingdom together with behavioural explanations that drive the observed nuptiality trends
Quantifying paradigm change in demography
Demography is a uniquely empirical research area amongst the social sciences. We posit that the same principle of empiricism should be applied to studies of the population sciences as a discipline, contributing to greater self-awareness amongst its practit
Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling: With Applications for the Social Sciences
Agent-Based Modelling; ABM; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Computational social science; Social simulation; Population sciences
Analysis: Frameworks and Theories for Social Simulation
Having discussed the current state-of-the-art in modelling for the social sciences, we will begin to delve more deeply into the modelling frameworks discussed thus far. Both Alife and social science simulation will be studied using these modelling frameworks, which will allow us to examine the limitations of these approaches to modelling. We will then attempt to develop a framework for social science modelling, taking into account the needs of th…
The varieties of redemptive experiences: A qualitative study of meaning-making in evangelical Christian cancer patients
Suffering with Christ: Emic christian coping and relation to well-being
Current measures of religious coping are generally etic in nature, measuring constructs across religions. Emic variables (i.e., those specific to particular religions) are often left out, which limits our ability to assess religious/spiritual coping during times of stress and adversity. Here we provide findings from three studies we conducted to develop and test an emic Christian meaning-making coping method: identifying with Christ in his suffer…
God wastes nothing: A consensual qualitative study of coping among Catholic individuals with cancer diagnoses
While religious meaning-making has been extensively studied, emic religious coping remains largely unexplored. This consensual qualitative research study explored Catholic cancer survivors' ( N = 22) descriptions of drawing on their religious framework throughout their cancer journeys. Findings revealed distinctive Catholic resources such as the power of blessings, drawing comfort from the saints and sacraments, and "offering up" suffering as a f…
Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999–2002
A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ …
Lament: Measuring a Christian Meaning-Making Coping Practice
Research demonstrates that people draw on their religions in coping with difficult life circumstances, and that more religious people tend to cope better than less religious people. Lament is a religious prayer practice that constitutes a form of meaning-making coping. Here, we explicate this form of coping and, in a series of three studies with Christian participants, report on the development of a lament scale. In the first study, we develop it…
Dividends and Disconnects: Involving Public and Stakeholder Groups in the Development of a Modelling Study Exploring Income Policy and Health
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works)