William Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 217696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | MetaMetrics (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0592-781X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
International Canadian Studies: A Survey of Teaching, Research, and Needed Support
More than 10 years after the Government of Canada ended its support for the “Understanding Canada” program, international Canadianists have continued to contribute to teaching and conducting research on Canada. During this time, Canadian society has faced significant challenges, including the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and academic debates have questioned the relevance of Canadian Studies as a field of…
Lessons from the sex wars: Reflections on five decades of the scientific study of pornography
Integrating a Co-occurring Disorders Intervention in Drug Courts: An Open Pilot Trial
Modern, postmodern, amodern
Public Mass Murderers and Federal Mental Health Background Checks
The litany of public mass murders, from Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, Las Vegas, and Parkland to less well‐known incidents that occur yearly, has focused national attention on federally mandated mental health background checks of prospective gun purchasers. The call has been to put more gun‐disqualifying mental health records into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database to prevent “deranged” murderers from buying guns and ru…
Leituras sobre os Timbira
.
Adaptive Measurement and Assessment
Adaptive approaches to measurement and assessment have been useful in organizational science for more than 100 years. Advances in psychometric theory and inexpensive computing power have propelled the field into a renaissance for every type of construct and level of analysis imaginable. Exciting innovations include the use of mobile computer-adaptive testing (CAT); expert systems (e.g., automatic item generation); and unobtrusive adaptive measure…
Complementary and alternative medicine for psychologists: An essential resource
How do yoga, meditation, or massage affect our health? Mental health practitioners can expect as many as four in ten of their clients to be using these therapies to supplement conventional psychotherapy. This book arms therapists with the information they need to provide advice on the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine therapies and describes a broad array of approaches that may benefit clients. These include: * mi…
Initial Development of a Brief Measure of Psychological Distress
This paper addresses the preliminary development, construct validity, and psychometric properties of a brief self-report measure of psychological distress. 40 items were originally generated by doctoral level psychologists for use in the preliminary clinical sample. Inpatients from a psychiatric unit (N = 125) completed the items, and a principal-components analysis with a direct oblimin rotation was used to evaluate construct validity. The study…
Assessing Measurement Properties of Two Single-item General Health Measures
Commentary
A Japanese-American Internment Icon's Legacy and the Civil Rights Movement
NEW YORK - The Japanese-American who waited 40 years for justice is dead.Fred Korematsu, hailed by many as the Rosa Parks (a heroine of the African American civil rights movement) of World War II, passed away Wednesday in the northern California community of Larkspur. He was 86
Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences1
Mathematics, Measurement, Metaphor and Metaphysics I: Implications for Method in Postmodern Science
This paper relates philosophy’s metaphysical insistence on rigorous figure–meaning independence, and its own distrust of that insistence, to the potential for improved quantitative and qualitative methods in the sciences. Following Wittgenstein’s admonition that we pay attention to our nonsense, a kind of Socratic double vision is needed to simultaneously accept (1) that any meaningful discourse necessarily requires a significant degree of signif…
Mathematics, Measurement, Metaphor and Metaphysics II: Accounting for Galileo’s ‘Fateful Omission’
This paper continues the exposition begun in the previous paper (Fisher, 2003b) concerning philosophy’s metaphysical insistence on rigorous figure–meaning independence, and its own distrust of that insistence, turning now to the potential for a new metrological culture that values both the full integration of mathematics and measurement, and frequent, vigorous challenges to that integration. Recent criticisms of psychological measurement as subje…
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panaiba, 1580-1822:Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panafba, 1580-1822
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panaiba, 1580–1822
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panafba, 1580‐1822. Alida C. Metcalf.1. Berkeley:University of California Press, 1992. xvi + 280 pp., maps, tables, figures, plates, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐520‐07574‐9
Megadevelopment, Environmentalism, and Resistance: The Institutional Context of Kayapó Indigenous Politics in Central Brazil
The role of the indigenous Kayapo in environmentalist movements that oppose large-scale development projects in the Amazon is described. The analytic focus is on the construction of environmentalism within the context of opposition to hydroelectric dams along the Xingu River. The changing pressures on the Kayapo and the effectiveness of their responses are shown to be related to successive changes in dominant political-economic relations within t…
Of Living Machines and Living-Machines: Blade Runner and the Terminal Genre
HE POSSIBILITY OF FINDING likeness in diversity has always been a safety valve on the critical apparatus-when in doubt, subsume it under a rubric. Now, on the other side of long debates on the subject in film studies, we understand to be a place where social experience (in the form of narrative conventions, audience expectations, and industrial practices) combines with the critic's act of subsuming it under a rubric in a mutually constitutive way…
Family planning and female sterilization in the United States
"Ernie" Bayles and Process
Psychometric and Rated Anxiety
Several measures of anxiety were compared, including IPAT, MMPI indices, evaluator's and therapist's ratings, and the patient's self-ratings. Testing and rating of psychiatric out-patients was done early in the treatment process. The patient's self-ratings were stable and had moderately high correlations with all psychometric indices, but, with one possible exception, there was little correlation with evaluator and therapist ratings. Likewise, th…
The Music Listeners' Guide
Teaching History for Attitudes
Megadevelopment, Environmentalism, and Resistance: The Institutional Context of Kayapó Indigenous Politics in Central Brazil
The role of the indigenous Kayapo in environmentalist movements that oppose large-scale development projects in the Amazon is described. The analytic focus is on the construction of environmentalism within the context of opposition to hydroelectric dams along the Xingu River. The changing pressures on the Kayapo and the effectiveness of their responses are shown to be related to successive changes in dominant political-economic relations within t…
Family planning and female sterilization in the United States
Integrating a Co-occurring Disorders Intervention in Drug Courts: An Open Pilot Trial
Public Mass Murderers and Federal Mental Health Background Checks
The litany of public mass murders, from Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, Las Vegas, and Parkland to less well‐known incidents that occur yearly, has focused national attention on federally mandated mental health background checks of prospective gun purchasers. The call has been to put more gun‐disqualifying mental health records into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database to prevent “deranged” murderers from buying guns and ru…
Complementary and alternative medicine for psychologists: An essential resource
How do yoga, meditation, or massage affect our health? Mental health practitioners can expect as many as four in ten of their clients to be using these therapies to supplement conventional psychotherapy. This book arms therapists with the information they need to provide advice on the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine therapies and describes a broad array of approaches that may benefit clients. These include: * mi…
Of Living Machines and Living-Machines: Blade Runner and the Terminal Genre
HE POSSIBILITY OF FINDING likeness in diversity has always been a safety valve on the critical apparatus-when in doubt, subsume it under a rubric. Now, on the other side of long debates on the subject in film studies, we understand to be a place where social experience (in the form of narrative conventions, audience expectations, and industrial practices) combines with the critic's act of subsuming it under a rubric in a mutually constitutive way…
Teaching History for Attitudes
The Music Listeners' Guide
Psychometric and Rated Anxiety
Several measures of anxiety were compared, including IPAT, MMPI indices, evaluator's and therapist's ratings, and the patient's self-ratings. Testing and rating of psychiatric out-patients was done early in the treatment process. The patient's self-ratings were stable and had moderately high correlations with all psychometric indices, but, with one possible exception, there was little correlation with evaluator and therapist ratings. Likewise, th…
"Ernie" Bayles and Process
Family planning and female sterilization in the United States
Of Living Machines and Living-Machines: Blade Runner and the Terminal Genre
HE POSSIBILITY OF FINDING likeness in diversity has always been a safety valve on the critical apparatus-when in doubt, subsume it under a rubric. Now, on the other side of long debates on the subject in film studies, we understand to be a place where social experience (in the form of narrative conventions, audience expectations, and industrial practices) combines with the critic's act of subsuming it under a rubric in a mutually constitutive way…
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panaiba, 1580-1822:Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panafba, 1580-1822
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panaiba, 1580–1822
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Panafba, 1580‐1822. Alida C. Metcalf.1. Berkeley:University of California Press, 1992. xvi + 280 pp., maps, tables, figures, plates, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐520‐07574‐9
Megadevelopment, Environmentalism, and Resistance: The Institutional Context of Kayapó Indigenous Politics in Central Brazil
The role of the indigenous Kayapo in environmentalist movements that oppose large-scale development projects in the Amazon is described. The analytic focus is on the construction of environmentalism within the context of opposition to hydroelectric dams along the Xingu River. The changing pressures on the Kayapo and the effectiveness of their responses are shown to be related to successive changes in dominant political-economic relations within t…
Mathematics, Measurement, Metaphor and Metaphysics I: Implications for Method in Postmodern Science
This paper relates philosophy’s metaphysical insistence on rigorous figure–meaning independence, and its own distrust of that insistence, to the potential for improved quantitative and qualitative methods in the sciences. Following Wittgenstein’s admonition that we pay attention to our nonsense, a kind of Socratic double vision is needed to simultaneously accept (1) that any meaningful discourse necessarily requires a significant degree of signif…
Mathematics, Measurement, Metaphor and Metaphysics II: Accounting for Galileo’s ‘Fateful Omission’
This paper continues the exposition begun in the previous paper (Fisher, 2003b) concerning philosophy’s metaphysical insistence on rigorous figure–meaning independence, and its own distrust of that insistence, turning now to the potential for a new metrological culture that values both the full integration of mathematics and measurement, and frequent, vigorous challenges to that integration. Recent criticisms of psychological measurement as subje…
Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences1
Commentary
A Japanese-American Internment Icon's Legacy and the Civil Rights Movement
NEW YORK - The Japanese-American who waited 40 years for justice is dead.Fred Korematsu, hailed by many as the Rosa Parks (a heroine of the African American civil rights movement) of World War II, passed away Wednesday in the northern California community of Larkspur. He was 86
Assessing Measurement Properties of Two Single-item General Health Measures
Initial Development of a Brief Measure of Psychological Distress
This paper addresses the preliminary development, construct validity, and psychometric properties of a brief self-report measure of psychological distress. 40 items were originally generated by doctoral level psychologists for use in the preliminary clinical sample. Inpatients from a psychiatric unit (N = 125) completed the items, and a principal-components analysis with a direct oblimin rotation was used to evaluate construct validity. The study…
Complementary and alternative medicine for psychologists: An essential resource
How do yoga, meditation, or massage affect our health? Mental health practitioners can expect as many as four in ten of their clients to be using these therapies to supplement conventional psychotherapy. This book arms therapists with the information they need to provide advice on the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine therapies and describes a broad array of approaches that may benefit clients. These include: * mi…
Adaptive Measurement and Assessment
Adaptive approaches to measurement and assessment have been useful in organizational science for more than 100 years. Advances in psychometric theory and inexpensive computing power have propelled the field into a renaissance for every type of construct and level of analysis imaginable. Exciting innovations include the use of mobile computer-adaptive testing (CAT); expert systems (e.g., automatic item generation); and unobtrusive adaptive measure…
Integrating a Co-occurring Disorders Intervention in Drug Courts: An Open Pilot Trial
Modern, postmodern, amodern
Public Mass Murderers and Federal Mental Health Background Checks
The litany of public mass murders, from Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, Las Vegas, and Parkland to less well‐known incidents that occur yearly, has focused national attention on federally mandated mental health background checks of prospective gun purchasers. The call has been to put more gun‐disqualifying mental health records into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database to prevent “deranged” murderers from buying guns and ru…
Leituras sobre os Timbira
.
Lessons from the sex wars: Reflections on five decades of the scientific study of pornography
International Canadian Studies: A Survey of Teaching, Research, and Needed Support
More than 10 years after the Government of Canada ended its support for the “Understanding Canada” program, international Canadianists have continued to contribute to teaching and conducting research on Canada. During this time, Canadian society has faced significant challenges, including the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and academic debates have questioned the relevance of Canadian Studies as a field of…
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