Thomas Robinson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3596209 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Robinson |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Robinson |
| ASSINATURA | ROBINSON T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7097-1599 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Beyond apps
Research on smartphone media use has progressed from aggregate screen-time measures to app-level logs, yet these approaches still obscure the diversity and structure of the content users encounter. We introduce smartphone screen content patterns (content patterns) as a new construct and propose an analytical framework that represents smartphone use as distributions of experienced screen content rather than summaries of time spent on devices or in…
SOCbot
We present the results of a new approach to measuring the occupations of respondents in surveys using Large Language Models (LLMs). In our new approach, which we call SOCbot, an LLM integrated in the questionnaire scripting software is used to code the job title to the occupational classification in real-time during the interview. Where the job title does not contain sufficient information to be coded with confidence, the LLM probes for further r…
Cultivating commitment
Parks and protected areas (PPAs) are crucial for providing society with essential ecosystem services, encompassing both tangible and intangible benefits derived from healthy ecosystems. While previous research has predominantly focused on material-based ecosystem services, limited attention has been devoted to the impact of non-material cultural ecosystem services (CES), such as recreation and cultural-historic aspects, on visitor loyalty. Visito…
How to Detect Heterogeneity in Conjoint Experiments
Conjoint experiments are fast becoming one of the dominant experimental methods within the social sciences. Despite recent efforts to model heterogeneity within this type of experiment, the relationship between the conjoint design and lower-level causal estimands is underdeveloped. In this article, we clarify how conjoint heterogeneity can be construed as a set of nested, causal parameters that correspond to the levels of the conjoint design. We …
HealthyLifestyle
Social media has become an integral part of modern society. Many people now turn to social media platforms to share or gain knowledge about best practices for personal health. This new form of health information dissemination has greatly increased in popularity especially among young adults. Currently, more research is needed to identify why so many individuals choose to turn to social media for health information. Using Q methodology, this study…
When Do Voters Respond to Campaign Finance Disclosure? Evidence from Multiple Election Types
In recent American elections political candidates have actively emphasized features of their fundraising profiles when campaigning. Yet, surprisingly, we know comparatively little about how financial information affects vote choice specifically, whether effects differ across types of election, and how robust any effects are to other relevant political signals. Using a series of conjoint experiment designs, I compare the effects of campaigns’ fina…
How Campaigns Respond to Ballot Position
An established finding on ballot design is that top positions on the ballot improve the electoral performance of parties or candidates because voters respond behaviorally to salient information. This article presents evidence on an additional unexplored mechanism: campaigns, that can act before voters, can also adjust their behavior when allocated a top position on the ballot. We use a constituency-level lottery of ballot positions in Colombia to…
The Midas Touch
Principled methods for analyzing missing values, based chiefly on multiple imputation, have become increasingly popular yet can struggle to handle the kinds of large and complex data that are also becoming common. We propose an accurate, fast, and scalable approach to multiple imputation, which we call MIDAS (Multiple Imputation with Denoising Autoencoders). MIDAS employs a class of unsupervised neural networks known as denoising autoencoders, wh…
Nativist policy
Firms in the USA rely on highly skilled immigrants, particularly in the science and engineering sectors. Yet, the recent politics of immigration marks a substantial change to US immigration policy. We implement a conjoint experiment that isolates the causal effect of nativist, anti-immigrant, pronouncements on where skilled potential-migrants choose to immigrate to. While these policies have a significantly negative effect on the destination choi…
Multi-modes for Detecting Experimental Measurement Error
Experiments should be designed to facilitate the detection of experimental measurement error. To this end, we advocate the implementation of identical experimental protocols employing diverse experimental modes. We suggest iterative nonparametric estimation techniques for assessing the magnitude of heterogeneous treatment effects across these modes. And we propose two diagnostic strategies—measurement metrics embedded in experiments, and measurem…
Where Will the British Go? And Why
Objective Immigration is a highly salient political issue. We examine the migration preferences of potential emigrants from the United Kingdom to determine whether the migration calculus is primarily economic or political. Methods A conjoint survey experiment was conducted with U.K. subjects drawn from the CESS, Nuffield College, Oxford University, student subject pool to identify causal drivers of emigration preferences. Results Logit estimation…
Migrant Perceptions of Social Media
New media are changing the way identities are managed. This is increasingly relevant to global communication (Lévy, 2000). The purpose of this article is to understand how these changes effect individual perceptions of media within a new cultural environment. By applying Q-methodology to cultural migration, this research asked cultural sojourners to rank subjective statements of media. Factor analysis were applied to the rankings, which provided …
Brexit
As the results were finalized, LeDuc’s law of referenda—that voters increasingly favor the status quo as referendum campaigns wear on—had clearly failed to prevent Britain’s dramatic exit from the European Union (EU). Despite apocalyptic warnings from those who supported the status quo, 51.9 percent of voters chose to endorse “Brexit.” Instant reactions presented the result as a shock, but Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, and Paul Whiteley’s bo…
Woman, education and politics in Plato
In this paper we wish to look at the relationship between basic education and politics in the \nRepublic and Laws of Plato with particular reference to the role and status of women in each account. \nWe shall be passing over the highly specialized higher education given to prospective male and female \nGuardians described in book seven of the Republic, and concentrating on primary education. In the \nRepublic this, too, as it happens, is also des…
The singer and the song
In the study of popular music, much attention is given to the cover version, a performance of a song filled with reference to and even commentary upon previous performances. Analysis of cover versions tends to reveal a lot about the performers and performances but very little about the work being performed. Because different versions of a song may vary widely, it is often difficult to determine what precisely is 'the work' in the first place, esp…
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
BACKGROUND: The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff, 1977) is a commonly used freely available self-report measure of depressive symptoms. Despite its popularity, several recent investigations have called into question the robustness and suitability of the commonly used 4-factor 20-item CES-D model. The goal of the current study was to address these concerns by confirming the factorial validity of the CES-D. METHODS …
Neuropsychological functioning in children with ADHD
The present study compared the current intellectual and neuropsychological functioning of 55 children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD group) 4 years earlier with that of an age‐ and sex‐matched control sample. The children in the ADHD group performed less well than the control group on measures of intellectual function, design fluency, spatial organization, and visual memory. Those children who continued to meet DSM…
The greeks and the good life
Este artigo pretende examinar a noção do conceito grego classico de “boa vida” (eu zen, eudamonia) como o principal objetivo prático da existência humana e apresentar uma nova visão da atual oposição entre as teorias teleológicas e não-teleológicas sobre o assunto, levando a uma reavaliação das contribuições feitas pela filosofia antiga. A forma do artigo é, em si, original: os autores criaram um diálogo entre dois personagens fictícios, cada qua…
Mao's Generals
Where the rubber meets the road
This paper argues that performance evaluation is a major element of preserving the status quo of gender differences in public accounting organizations. Performance evaluation is problematized as part of several broader themes in order to more fully appreciate its importance within careers and the gender patterning of organizations. Results of a study involving reactions to a hypothetical staff auditor in charge of an over‐budget audit engagement …
China confronts the Soviet Union
This chapter suggests that even with a near absence of foreign relations, in reality China was responding to the combined influence of well-understood domestic and international pressures. Chinese foreign policy during the Cultural Revolution showed what the costs were when the Party elected to run the risk of violating several of the cardinal principles of its own policy and of international systemic behavior. The chapter specifies the foreign p…
Relative deprivation and procedural justifications
Constraints on the Development of National Seashores and Lakeshores
The National Park Act of 1916 presented the Park Service with the conflicting goals of preserving the natural features of park system units while simultaneously providing facilities to make them available to the public. Over the years many authors have characterized this conflict between preservation and use as a dilemma that defies resolution. A more realistic interpretation, however, is that Congress expected the Park Service to strike a balanc…
Relative deprivation and procedural justifications
How to Detect Heterogeneity in Conjoint Experiments
Conjoint experiments are fast becoming one of the dominant experimental methods within the social sciences. Despite recent efforts to model heterogeneity within this type of experiment, the relationship between the conjoint design and lower-level causal estimands is underdeveloped. In this article, we clarify how conjoint heterogeneity can be construed as a set of nested, causal parameters that correspond to the levels of the conjoint design. We …
How Campaigns Respond to Ballot Position
An established finding on ballot design is that top positions on the ballot improve the electoral performance of parties or candidates because voters respond behaviorally to salient information. This article presents evidence on an additional unexplored mechanism: campaigns, that can act before voters, can also adjust their behavior when allocated a top position on the ballot. We use a constituency-level lottery of ballot positions in Colombia to…
Multi-modes for Detecting Experimental Measurement Error
Experiments should be designed to facilitate the detection of experimental measurement error. To this end, we advocate the implementation of identical experimental protocols employing diverse experimental modes. We suggest iterative nonparametric estimation techniques for assessing the magnitude of heterogeneous treatment effects across these modes. And we propose two diagnostic strategies—measurement metrics embedded in experiments, and measurem…
The Midas Touch
Principled methods for analyzing missing values, based chiefly on multiple imputation, have become increasingly popular yet can struggle to handle the kinds of large and complex data that are also becoming common. We propose an accurate, fast, and scalable approach to multiple imputation, which we call MIDAS (Multiple Imputation with Denoising Autoencoders). MIDAS employs a class of unsupervised neural networks known as denoising autoencoders, wh…
Nativist policy
Firms in the USA rely on highly skilled immigrants, particularly in the science and engineering sectors. Yet, the recent politics of immigration marks a substantial change to US immigration policy. We implement a conjoint experiment that isolates the causal effect of nativist, anti-immigrant, pronouncements on where skilled potential-migrants choose to immigrate to. While these policies have a significantly negative effect on the destination choi…
When Do Voters Respond to Campaign Finance Disclosure? Evidence from Multiple Election Types
In recent American elections political candidates have actively emphasized features of their fundraising profiles when campaigning. Yet, surprisingly, we know comparatively little about how financial information affects vote choice specifically, whether effects differ across types of election, and how robust any effects are to other relevant political signals. Using a series of conjoint experiment designs, I compare the effects of campaigns’ fina…
Where Will the British Go? And Why
Objective Immigration is a highly salient political issue. We examine the migration preferences of potential emigrants from the United Kingdom to determine whether the migration calculus is primarily economic or political. Methods A conjoint survey experiment was conducted with U.K. subjects drawn from the CESS, Nuffield College, Oxford University, student subject pool to identify causal drivers of emigration preferences. Results Logit estimation…
The greeks and the good life
Este artigo pretende examinar a noção do conceito grego classico de “boa vida” (eu zen, eudamonia) como o principal objetivo prático da existência humana e apresentar uma nova visão da atual oposição entre as teorias teleológicas e não-teleológicas sobre o assunto, levando a uma reavaliação das contribuições feitas pela filosofia antiga. A forma do artigo é, em si, original: os autores criaram um diálogo entre dois personagens fictícios, cada qua…
Constraints on the Development of National Seashores and Lakeshores
The National Park Act of 1916 presented the Park Service with the conflicting goals of preserving the natural features of park system units while simultaneously providing facilities to make them available to the public. Over the years many authors have characterized this conflict between preservation and use as a dilemma that defies resolution. A more realistic interpretation, however, is that Congress expected the Park Service to strike a balanc…
Relative deprivation and procedural justifications
China confronts the Soviet Union
This chapter suggests that even with a near absence of foreign relations, in reality China was responding to the combined influence of well-understood domestic and international pressures. Chinese foreign policy during the Cultural Revolution showed what the costs were when the Party elected to run the risk of violating several of the cardinal principles of its own policy and of international systemic behavior. The chapter specifies the foreign p…
Where the rubber meets the road
This paper argues that performance evaluation is a major element of preserving the status quo of gender differences in public accounting organizations. Performance evaluation is problematized as part of several broader themes in order to more fully appreciate its importance within careers and the gender patterning of organizations. Results of a study involving reactions to a hypothetical staff auditor in charge of an over‐budget audit engagement …
Mao's Generals
The greeks and the good life
Este artigo pretende examinar a noção do conceito grego classico de “boa vida” (eu zen, eudamonia) como o principal objetivo prático da existência humana e apresentar uma nova visão da atual oposição entre as teorias teleológicas e não-teleológicas sobre o assunto, levando a uma reavaliação das contribuições feitas pela filosofia antiga. A forma do artigo é, em si, original: os autores criaram um diálogo entre dois personagens fictícios, cada qua…
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
BACKGROUND: The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff, 1977) is a commonly used freely available self-report measure of depressive symptoms. Despite its popularity, several recent investigations have called into question the robustness and suitability of the commonly used 4-factor 20-item CES-D model. The goal of the current study was to address these concerns by confirming the factorial validity of the CES-D. METHODS …
Neuropsychological functioning in children with ADHD
The present study compared the current intellectual and neuropsychological functioning of 55 children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD group) 4 years earlier with that of an age‐ and sex‐matched control sample. The children in the ADHD group performed less well than the control group on measures of intellectual function, design fluency, spatial organization, and visual memory. Those children who continued to meet DSM…
The singer and the song
In the study of popular music, much attention is given to the cover version, a performance of a song filled with reference to and even commentary upon previous performances. Analysis of cover versions tends to reveal a lot about the performers and performances but very little about the work being performed. Because different versions of a song may vary widely, it is often difficult to determine what precisely is 'the work' in the first place, esp…
Woman, education and politics in Plato
In this paper we wish to look at the relationship between basic education and politics in the \nRepublic and Laws of Plato with particular reference to the role and status of women in each account. \nWe shall be passing over the highly specialized higher education given to prospective male and female \nGuardians described in book seven of the Republic, and concentrating on primary education. In the \nRepublic this, too, as it happens, is also des…
Migrant Perceptions of Social Media
New media are changing the way identities are managed. This is increasingly relevant to global communication (Lévy, 2000). The purpose of this article is to understand how these changes effect individual perceptions of media within a new cultural environment. By applying Q-methodology to cultural migration, this research asked cultural sojourners to rank subjective statements of media. Factor analysis were applied to the rankings, which provided …
Brexit
As the results were finalized, LeDuc’s law of referenda—that voters increasingly favor the status quo as referendum campaigns wear on—had clearly failed to prevent Britain’s dramatic exit from the European Union (EU). Despite apocalyptic warnings from those who supported the status quo, 51.9 percent of voters chose to endorse “Brexit.” Instant reactions presented the result as a shock, but Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, and Paul Whiteley’s bo…
Where Will the British Go? And Why
Objective Immigration is a highly salient political issue. We examine the migration preferences of potential emigrants from the United Kingdom to determine whether the migration calculus is primarily economic or political. Methods A conjoint survey experiment was conducted with U.K. subjects drawn from the CESS, Nuffield College, Oxford University, student subject pool to identify causal drivers of emigration preferences. Results Logit estimation…
Nativist policy
Firms in the USA rely on highly skilled immigrants, particularly in the science and engineering sectors. Yet, the recent politics of immigration marks a substantial change to US immigration policy. We implement a conjoint experiment that isolates the causal effect of nativist, anti-immigrant, pronouncements on where skilled potential-migrants choose to immigrate to. While these policies have a significantly negative effect on the destination choi…
Multi-modes for Detecting Experimental Measurement Error
Experiments should be designed to facilitate the detection of experimental measurement error. To this end, we advocate the implementation of identical experimental protocols employing diverse experimental modes. We suggest iterative nonparametric estimation techniques for assessing the magnitude of heterogeneous treatment effects across these modes. And we propose two diagnostic strategies—measurement metrics embedded in experiments, and measurem…
How Campaigns Respond to Ballot Position
An established finding on ballot design is that top positions on the ballot improve the electoral performance of parties or candidates because voters respond behaviorally to salient information. This article presents evidence on an additional unexplored mechanism: campaigns, that can act before voters, can also adjust their behavior when allocated a top position on the ballot. We use a constituency-level lottery of ballot positions in Colombia to…
The Midas Touch
Principled methods for analyzing missing values, based chiefly on multiple imputation, have become increasingly popular yet can struggle to handle the kinds of large and complex data that are also becoming common. We propose an accurate, fast, and scalable approach to multiple imputation, which we call MIDAS (Multiple Imputation with Denoising Autoencoders). MIDAS employs a class of unsupervised neural networks known as denoising autoencoders, wh…
When Do Voters Respond to Campaign Finance Disclosure? Evidence from Multiple Election Types
In recent American elections political candidates have actively emphasized features of their fundraising profiles when campaigning. Yet, surprisingly, we know comparatively little about how financial information affects vote choice specifically, whether effects differ across types of election, and how robust any effects are to other relevant political signals. Using a series of conjoint experiment designs, I compare the effects of campaigns’ fina…
Cultivating commitment
Parks and protected areas (PPAs) are crucial for providing society with essential ecosystem services, encompassing both tangible and intangible benefits derived from healthy ecosystems. While previous research has predominantly focused on material-based ecosystem services, limited attention has been devoted to the impact of non-material cultural ecosystem services (CES), such as recreation and cultural-historic aspects, on visitor loyalty. Visito…
How to Detect Heterogeneity in Conjoint Experiments
Conjoint experiments are fast becoming one of the dominant experimental methods within the social sciences. Despite recent efforts to model heterogeneity within this type of experiment, the relationship between the conjoint design and lower-level causal estimands is underdeveloped. In this article, we clarify how conjoint heterogeneity can be construed as a set of nested, causal parameters that correspond to the levels of the conjoint design. We …
HealthyLifestyle
Social media has become an integral part of modern society. Many people now turn to social media platforms to share or gain knowledge about best practices for personal health. This new form of health information dissemination has greatly increased in popularity especially among young adults. Currently, more research is needed to identify why so many individuals choose to turn to social media for health information. Using Q methodology, this study…
Beyond apps
Research on smartphone media use has progressed from aggregate screen-time measures to app-level logs, yet these approaches still obscure the diversity and structure of the content users encounter. We introduce smartphone screen content patterns (content patterns) as a new construct and propose an analytical framework that represents smartphone use as distributions of experienced screen content rather than summaries of time spent on devices or in…
SOCbot
We present the results of a new approach to measuring the occupations of respondents in surveys using Large Language Models (LLMs). In our new approach, which we call SOCbot, an LLM integrated in the questionnaire scripting software is used to code the job title to the occupational classification in real-time during the interview. Where the job title does not contain sufficient information to be coded with confidence, the LLM probes for further r…
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