Thomas Birk
Biographic Data
| ID | 134753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Birk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Birk |
| SIGNATURE | BIRK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Results of 15 years of extended follow-up of the German porcelain workers cohort study
Objectives To quantify, after extending follow-up 15 years, the relationship between occupational respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposure and risk of silicosis diagnosis and lung cancer mortality in the German Porcelain Workers Cohort Study, and to estimate possible exposure thresholds for these. Methods Porcelain workers enrolled between January 1, 1985, and December 31, 1987, in a mandatory medical surveillance program including triennial …
Assessing vulnerability to climate change and socioeconomic stressors in the Reef Islands group, Solomon Islands
This article assesses the vulnerability to climatic and socioeconomic stresses in the Reef Islands, Solomon Islands, an atoll island group in the Southwest Pacific. Climate change and the associated sea-level rise are often seen as the most pressing challenges to atoll communities, yet this study aims at critically re-assessing this view by placing climate in the context of a range of other internal and external stressors affecting local liveliho…
Climate Change and Human Mobility
'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This book examines emerging patterns of human mobility in relation to climate change, drawing on a multidisciplinary approach including anthropology and geography. It…
A Theory of Belief, Attitude, Intention, and Behavior Extended to the Domain of Corrective Advertising
The literature on corrective advertising is replete with conflicting reports on its effectiveness in changing attitudes and/or behavior. Part of the ambiguity in the published literature is due to lack of theoretical specificity and conceptual clarity about the potential outcomes associated with mass media efforts to correct deception in commercial advertisements. Moreover, the published research suffers from methodological imprecision in measuri…
Compliance and Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication An Expectancy Theory Interpretation of Gender Differences
Journal Article Compliance and Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication: An Expectancy Theory Interpretation of Gender Differences Get access Michael Burgoon, Michael Burgoon Professor 1Head of Communication and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas S. Birk, Thomas S. Birk Research Associate 2University of Arizona at the time…
Nonverbal Behaviors, Persuasion, and Credibility
This study examined the relationships among nonverbal behaviors, dimensions of source credibility, and speaker persuasiveness in a public speaking context. Relevant nonverbal literature was organized according to a Brunswikian lens model. Nonverbal behavioral composites, grouped according to their likely proximal percepts, were hypothesized to significantly affect both credibility and persuasiveness. A sample of 60 speakers gave videotaped speech…
Relational communication, satisfaction, compliance‐gaining strategies, and compliance in communication between physicians and patients
Six themes of physicians' relational communication were hypothesized to predict patients' satisfaction and compliance, to relate to strategies used by physicians to gain compliance, and to relate to frequency of physician‐patient contact. Telephone interviews with 234 adults who had seen a primary care physician within the previous six months confirmed that perceived relational communication was strongly related to affective, cognitive, and behav…
Nonverbal Behaviors, Persuasion, and Credibility
This study examined the relationships among nonverbal behaviors, dimensions of source credibility, and speaker persuasiveness in a public speaking context. Relevant nonverbal literature was organized according to a Brunswikian lens model. Nonverbal behavioral composites, grouped according to their likely proximal percepts, were hypothesized to significantly affect both credibility and persuasiveness. A sample of 60 speakers gave videotaped speech…
Compliance and Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication An Expectancy Theory Interpretation of Gender Differences
Journal Article Compliance and Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication: An Expectancy Theory Interpretation of Gender Differences Get access Michael Burgoon, Michael Burgoon Professor 1Head of Communication and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas S. Birk, Thomas S. Birk Research Associate 2University of Arizona at the time…
Relational communication, satisfaction, compliance‐gaining strategies, and compliance in communication between physicians and patients
Six themes of physicians' relational communication were hypothesized to predict patients' satisfaction and compliance, to relate to strategies used by physicians to gain compliance, and to relate to frequency of physician‐patient contact. Telephone interviews with 234 adults who had seen a primary care physician within the previous six months confirmed that perceived relational communication was strongly related to affective, cognitive, and behav…
Assessing vulnerability to climate change and socioeconomic stressors in the Reef Islands group, Solomon Islands
This article assesses the vulnerability to climatic and socioeconomic stresses in the Reef Islands, Solomon Islands, an atoll island group in the Southwest Pacific. Climate change and the associated sea-level rise are often seen as the most pressing challenges to atoll communities, yet this study aims at critically re-assessing this view by placing climate in the context of a range of other internal and external stressors affecting local liveliho…
Relational communication, satisfaction, compliance‐gaining strategies, and compliance in communication between physicians and patients
Six themes of physicians' relational communication were hypothesized to predict patients' satisfaction and compliance, to relate to strategies used by physicians to gain compliance, and to relate to frequency of physician‐patient contact. Telephone interviews with 234 adults who had seen a primary care physician within the previous six months confirmed that perceived relational communication was strongly related to affective, cognitive, and behav…
Nonverbal Behaviors, Persuasion, and Credibility
This study examined the relationships among nonverbal behaviors, dimensions of source credibility, and speaker persuasiveness in a public speaking context. Relevant nonverbal literature was organized according to a Brunswikian lens model. Nonverbal behavioral composites, grouped according to their likely proximal percepts, were hypothesized to significantly affect both credibility and persuasiveness. A sample of 60 speakers gave videotaped speech…
Compliance and Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication An Expectancy Theory Interpretation of Gender Differences
Journal Article Compliance and Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication: An Expectancy Theory Interpretation of Gender Differences Get access Michael Burgoon, Michael Burgoon Professor 1Head of Communication and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas S. Birk, Thomas S. Birk Research Associate 2University of Arizona at the time…
A Theory of Belief, Attitude, Intention, and Behavior Extended to the Domain of Corrective Advertising
The literature on corrective advertising is replete with conflicting reports on its effectiveness in changing attitudes and/or behavior. Part of the ambiguity in the published literature is due to lack of theoretical specificity and conceptual clarity about the potential outcomes associated with mass media efforts to correct deception in commercial advertisements. Moreover, the published research suffers from methodological imprecision in measuri…
Climate Change and Human Mobility
'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This book examines emerging patterns of human mobility in relation to climate change, drawing on a multidisciplinary approach including anthropology and geography. It…
Assessing vulnerability to climate change and socioeconomic stressors in the Reef Islands group, Solomon Islands
This article assesses the vulnerability to climatic and socioeconomic stresses in the Reef Islands, Solomon Islands, an atoll island group in the Southwest Pacific. Climate change and the associated sea-level rise are often seen as the most pressing challenges to atoll communities, yet this study aims at critically re-assessing this view by placing climate in the context of a range of other internal and external stressors affecting local liveliho…
Results of 15 years of extended follow-up of the German porcelain workers cohort study
Objectives To quantify, after extending follow-up 15 years, the relationship between occupational respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposure and risk of silicosis diagnosis and lung cancer mortality in the German Porcelain Workers Cohort Study, and to estimate possible exposure thresholds for these. Methods Porcelain workers enrolled between January 1, 1985, and December 31, 1987, in a mandatory medical surveillance program including triennial …
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (2 works) · Compliance (psychology (2 works)