Robert F Kidd
Biographic Data
| ID | 236992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert F Kidd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert F |
| FAMILY NAME | Kidd |
| SIGNATURE | KIDD R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
New Directions in Attribution Research
Why Do Victims Fail to Report? The Psychology of Criminal Victimization
This article reviews emotional and cognitive reactions to criminal victimization. It draws connections between the contents of these reactions and victims' reluctance to report the crime to authorities. Since between one half and two thirds of all crimes are not so reported, understanding these connections is critical. We argue that nonreporting is the result of three factors acting singly or in concert: (a) victim fear, (b) feelings of helplessn…
Self-reflection, mood, and helpful behavior
Persuasion
Good News or Bad News First
Commonsense reasoning predicts that people prefer hearing bad news before good news rather than the reverse. In two role-playing experiments, subjects were asked if they preferred to hear good news/bad news or bad news/good news. In a third experiment, subjects believed they would be receiving good and bad information about themselves from a personality, social sensitivity, or intelligence test. Results from all three studies showed that subjects…
Human Information Processing and Adjudication
This article addresses the role of quantitative evidence and methods in trials. Major arguments against the introduction of explicit computation information are considered and contrasted with findings about the characteristics of the unaided human decision maker. Emphasis is given to behavioral decision theory and the heuristic biases it reveals. Consideration is given to the symbolic versus "truth-finding" functions of trials, mathematical model…
New Directions in Attribution Research, Vol. 2
Crime Reporting
Most of the recent work on crime reporting has yet to be integrated into a coherent theoretical scheme. In response to this theoretical void, the present article outlines a model of the social psychological processes involved in crime reporting. The processes underlying the reporting of an observed crime assume that the bystander is a rational decision maker. After sighting an unusual event. the bystander calculates how discrepant the event is fr…
Attributional determinants of monetary help-giving1
Effect of dissonance arousal on helpfulness
Social facilitation in chickens
Factors Affecting Pre-Decisional Communication Behavior After Helping Requests
A field experiment was conducted to explore the relationship between two known determinants of helpfulness (cost of helping and dependency of other) and predecisional communication behavior. Male undergraduates were contacted by telephone and asked to volunteer for a survey study. The caller was either very dependent or less dependent on the subject for help. The survey was described as taking 3 hours (high cost), 1 hour (moderate cost), or 20 mi…
Social factors in the facilitation of feeding in chickens
Two experiments investigated the generality of socially enhanced consummatory behavior in chickens and the conditions that influence such enhancement. The first experiment placed two consummatory responses (pecking and drinking) in competition. The design of the experiment contrasted three common interpretations of social facilitation of feeding in chickens: (a) the imitation of specific responses of another bird, (b) the arousing effect of anoth…
Effects of labeling and of theoretical explanations of deviancy on juror attitudes
Human Information Processing and Adjudication
This article addresses the role of quantitative evidence and methods in trials. Major arguments against the introduction of explicit computation information are considered and contrasted with findings about the characteristics of the unaided human decision maker. Emphasis is given to behavioral decision theory and the heuristic biases it reveals. Consideration is given to the symbolic versus "truth-finding" functions of trials, mathematical model…
Why Do Victims Fail to Report? The Psychology of Criminal Victimization
This article reviews emotional and cognitive reactions to criminal victimization. It draws connections between the contents of these reactions and victims' reluctance to report the crime to authorities. Since between one half and two thirds of all crimes are not so reported, understanding these connections is critical. We argue that nonreporting is the result of three factors acting singly or in concert: (a) victim fear, (b) feelings of helplessn…
Crime Reporting
Most of the recent work on crime reporting has yet to be integrated into a coherent theoretical scheme. In response to this theoretical void, the present article outlines a model of the social psychological processes involved in crime reporting. The processes underlying the reporting of an observed crime assume that the bystander is a rational decision maker. After sighting an unusual event. the bystander calculates how discrepant the event is fr…
Persuasion
Social facilitation in chickens
Social factors in the facilitation of feeding in chickens
Two experiments investigated the generality of socially enhanced consummatory behavior in chickens and the conditions that influence such enhancement. The first experiment placed two consummatory responses (pecking and drinking) in competition. The design of the experiment contrasted three common interpretations of social facilitation of feeding in chickens: (a) the imitation of specific responses of another bird, (b) the arousing effect of anoth…
Self-reflection, mood, and helpful behavior
Factors Affecting Pre-Decisional Communication Behavior After Helping Requests
A field experiment was conducted to explore the relationship between two known determinants of helpfulness (cost of helping and dependency of other) and predecisional communication behavior. Male undergraduates were contacted by telephone and asked to volunteer for a survey study. The caller was either very dependent or less dependent on the subject for help. The survey was described as taking 3 hours (high cost), 1 hour (moderate cost), or 20 mi…
Effects of labeling and of theoretical explanations of deviancy on juror attitudes
Social factors in the facilitation of feeding in chickens
Two experiments investigated the generality of socially enhanced consummatory behavior in chickens and the conditions that influence such enhancement. The first experiment placed two consummatory responses (pecking and drinking) in competition. The design of the experiment contrasted three common interpretations of social facilitation of feeding in chickens: (a) the imitation of specific responses of another bird, (b) the arousing effect of anoth…
Attributional determinants of monetary help-giving1
Effect of dissonance arousal on helpfulness
Social facilitation in chickens
Factors Affecting Pre-Decisional Communication Behavior After Helping Requests
A field experiment was conducted to explore the relationship between two known determinants of helpfulness (cost of helping and dependency of other) and predecisional communication behavior. Male undergraduates were contacted by telephone and asked to volunteer for a survey study. The caller was either very dependent or less dependent on the subject for help. The survey was described as taking 3 hours (high cost), 1 hour (moderate cost), or 20 mi…
Crime Reporting
Most of the recent work on crime reporting has yet to be integrated into a coherent theoretical scheme. In response to this theoretical void, the present article outlines a model of the social psychological processes involved in crime reporting. The processes underlying the reporting of an observed crime assume that the bystander is a rational decision maker. After sighting an unusual event. the bystander calculates how discrepant the event is fr…
New Directions in Attribution Research, Vol. 2
Good News or Bad News First
Commonsense reasoning predicts that people prefer hearing bad news before good news rather than the reverse. In two role-playing experiments, subjects were asked if they preferred to hear good news/bad news or bad news/good news. In a third experiment, subjects believed they would be receiving good and bad information about themselves from a personality, social sensitivity, or intelligence test. Results from all three studies showed that subjects…
Human Information Processing and Adjudication
This article addresses the role of quantitative evidence and methods in trials. Major arguments against the introduction of explicit computation information are considered and contrasted with findings about the characteristics of the unaided human decision maker. Emphasis is given to behavioral decision theory and the heuristic biases it reveals. Consideration is given to the symbolic versus "truth-finding" functions of trials, mathematical model…
Self-reflection, mood, and helpful behavior
Persuasion
Why Do Victims Fail to Report? The Psychology of Criminal Victimization
This article reviews emotional and cognitive reactions to criminal victimization. It draws connections between the contents of these reactions and victims' reluctance to report the crime to authorities. Since between one half and two thirds of all crimes are not so reported, understanding these connections is critical. We argue that nonreporting is the result of three factors acting singly or in concert: (a) victim fear, (b) feelings of helplessn…
New Directions in Attribution Research
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Arousal (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Helpfulness (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works)