Ewart A C Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 229908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ewart A C Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ewart A C |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS E A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Choosing a physician depends on how you want to feel: The role of ideal affect in health-related decision making
When given a choice, how do people decide which physician to select? Although significant research has demonstrated that how people actually feel (their "actual affect") influences their health care preferences, how people ideally want to feel (their "ideal affect") may play an even greater role. Specifically, we predicted that people trust physicians whose affective characteristics match their ideal affect, which leads people to prefer those phy…
He Lived the Impossible Dream A Eulogy Given at W. Curtis Banks's Funeral, Howard University Chapel, January 20, 1998
Behavior-Dependent Contexts for Repeated Plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma
This article analyzes the game-theoretic stability of three strategies, Tit-For-Tat (TFT), all-Defect (all-D), and all-Cooperate (all-C), that actors might use for repeated plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD). The probability that there will be a next play is assumed to depend on the current behavior of one of the actors—it is w after cooperation and u after a defection—and two cases are examined. The first case is where an actor assumes that th…
Liability as a function of plaintiff and defendant fault
Five groups of fictitious case outlines were prepared about a plaintiff who sued a defendant for damages. Within each group of cases, we independently manipulated evidence about the apparent fault (here labeled the propensity to fault) in the plaintiffs conduct and in the defendant's conduct, as well as evidence about the severity of the harm. Subjects rated the responsibility of the plaintiff and the defendant for the harm and assessed the liabi…
Anticipatory and fantastic role enactment in preschool triads
On the dynamics of two-person interactions
On the dynamics of two-person interactions
A class of discrete-state probabilistic models is discussed that allow for the separate assessment of the effects of both self-regulatory processes, including predispositions, and interactive processes on the complementary, reciprocal, and reinforcing tendencies of observable responses. In most of these models, the two responses made at Time t + 1 by members of an interacting dyad are statistically independent, given the pair of responses made at…
Effect of pretesting on measures of individual risk preferences
The present study uses a modified Solomon's four groups design with an additional expectancy control group to assess artifacts associated with pretesting in the measurement of individual risk preferences. Pretesting induces a cautious bias in posttest scores with either group discussion or individual familiarization as the experimental treatment. Further analysis shows that individual familiarization induces a significant cautious shift and confi…
On Expectancy and Average Reaction Time
The notion of expectancy has often been used in explanations of the relationship between foreperiod variability and simple reaction time. Two interpretations of the notion are distinguished: one is that expectancy or expectancy level is a moment in time, and the other is that expectancy is a regular function of time. The latter interpretation is adopted and it is shown that if expectancy is defined as the conditional probability of signal occurre…
On the dynamics of two-person interactions
A class of discrete-state probabilistic models is discussed that allow for the separate assessment of the effects of both self-regulatory processes, including predispositions, and interactive processes on the complementary, reciprocal, and reinforcing tendencies of observable responses. In most of these models, the two responses made at Time t + 1 by members of an interacting dyad are statistically independent, given the pair of responses made at…
Anticipatory and fantastic role enactment in preschool triads
Effect of pretesting on measures of individual risk preferences
The present study uses a modified Solomon's four groups design with an additional expectancy control group to assess artifacts associated with pretesting in the measurement of individual risk preferences. Pretesting induces a cautious bias in posttest scores with either group discussion or individual familiarization as the experimental treatment. Further analysis shows that individual familiarization induces a significant cautious shift and confi…
Behavior-Dependent Contexts for Repeated Plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma
This article analyzes the game-theoretic stability of three strategies, Tit-For-Tat (TFT), all-Defect (all-D), and all-Cooperate (all-C), that actors might use for repeated plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD). The probability that there will be a next play is assumed to depend on the current behavior of one of the actors—it is w after cooperation and u after a defection—and two cases are examined. The first case is where an actor assumes that th…
Liability as a function of plaintiff and defendant fault
Five groups of fictitious case outlines were prepared about a plaintiff who sued a defendant for damages. Within each group of cases, we independently manipulated evidence about the apparent fault (here labeled the propensity to fault) in the plaintiffs conduct and in the defendant's conduct, as well as evidence about the severity of the harm. Subjects rated the responsibility of the plaintiff and the defendant for the harm and assessed the liabi…
He Lived the Impossible Dream A Eulogy Given at W. Curtis Banks's Funeral, Howard University Chapel, January 20, 1998
On Expectancy and Average Reaction Time
The notion of expectancy has often been used in explanations of the relationship between foreperiod variability and simple reaction time. Two interpretations of the notion are distinguished: one is that expectancy or expectancy level is a moment in time, and the other is that expectancy is a regular function of time. The latter interpretation is adopted and it is shown that if expectancy is defined as the conditional probability of signal occurre…
Effect of pretesting on measures of individual risk preferences
The present study uses a modified Solomon's four groups design with an additional expectancy control group to assess artifacts associated with pretesting in the measurement of individual risk preferences. Pretesting induces a cautious bias in posttest scores with either group discussion or individual familiarization as the experimental treatment. Further analysis shows that individual familiarization induces a significant cautious shift and confi…
On the dynamics of two-person interactions
On the dynamics of two-person interactions
A class of discrete-state probabilistic models is discussed that allow for the separate assessment of the effects of both self-regulatory processes, including predispositions, and interactive processes on the complementary, reciprocal, and reinforcing tendencies of observable responses. In most of these models, the two responses made at Time t + 1 by members of an interacting dyad are statistically independent, given the pair of responses made at…
Anticipatory and fantastic role enactment in preschool triads
Liability as a function of plaintiff and defendant fault
Five groups of fictitious case outlines were prepared about a plaintiff who sued a defendant for damages. Within each group of cases, we independently manipulated evidence about the apparent fault (here labeled the propensity to fault) in the plaintiffs conduct and in the defendant's conduct, as well as evidence about the severity of the harm. Subjects rated the responsibility of the plaintiff and the defendant for the harm and assessed the liabi…
Behavior-Dependent Contexts for Repeated Plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma
This article analyzes the game-theoretic stability of three strategies, Tit-For-Tat (TFT), all-Defect (all-D), and all-Cooperate (all-C), that actors might use for repeated plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD). The probability that there will be a next play is assumed to depend on the current behavior of one of the actors—it is w after cooperation and u after a defection—and two cases are examined. The first case is where an actor assumes that th…
He Lived the Impossible Dream A Eulogy Given at W. Curtis Banks's Funeral, Howard University Chapel, January 20, 1998
Choosing a physician depends on how you want to feel: The role of ideal affect in health-related decision making
When given a choice, how do people decide which physician to select? Although significant research has demonstrated that how people actually feel (their "actual affect") influences their health care preferences, how people ideally want to feel (their "ideal affect") may play an even greater role. Specifically, we predicted that people trust physicians whose affective characteristics match their ideal affect, which leads people to prefer those phy…
Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works)