Stephen Palmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Palmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmer |
| SIGNATURE | PALMER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0108-6999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Handbook of Coaching Psychology
A systematic review of the relationship between objective measurements of the urban environment and psychological distress
Resilience and Vulnerability to the Psychological Harm From Flooding
Objectives. We examined the role of social cohesion as a component of vulnerability and resilience to the psychological distress of flooding. Methods. A survey collected data from 2238 individuals living in flood-affected areas of England (South Yorkshire and Worcestershire) in 2007. We used Bayesian structural equation modeling to assess factors relating to the latent variables of resilience (years in area, family nearby, and social cohesion) an…
Martyrdom and conflict
Acts of martyrdom occur at points in the history of societies when they are riven by fundamental conflicts – not only between competing political authorities, but between divergent fundamental conceptions of just where authority in a society and culture should lie. For many commentators, Ancient Greece provides us with an example of just such a society, one which was riven by a conflict between sacred and secular visions of foundational authority…
Visual Aesthetics and Human Preference
Human aesthetic preference in the visual domain is reviewed from definitional, methodological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Aesthetic science is distinguished from the perception of art and from philosophical treatments of aesthetics. The strengths and weaknesses of important behavioral techniques are presented and discussed, including two-alternative forced-choice, rank order, subjective rating, production/adjustment, indirect, and o…
Interpersonal Relationships and Preferences for Mood-Congruency in Aesthetic Experiences
Prior research examining how negative feelings influence aesthetic preferences (e.g., liking of different kinds of music, movies, or stories) has reported inconsistent findings. This article proposes a theoretical argument to explain when people are more likely to prefer mood-congruent to mood-incongruent aesthetic stimuli. It is suggested that mood-congruent aesthetic experiences, for example, listening to sad songs when feeling sad, (a) serve a…
Visual Object Processing Author's Note
We present an overview of the functional and anatomical pathways and steps involved in going from a pattern of photoreceptor activations in the retina to recognizing an object in the world. Our focus is the geniculostriate pathway and the ventral processing stream of the cortex, which play a dominant role in object processing in humans. For recognition to occur, there must be the generation of a representation that can be matched to memory. Here …
Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice
Dead but not departed yet
In his 1999 novel Being Dead, the English writer Jim Crace exploits the potential of literary narrative for exploring the liminal space between dying and death. According to Victor Turner (1969 Turner, V. W. 1969. The ritual process: Structure and anti-structure, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. [Google Scholar]), following Van Gennep (1909/2010), ritual processes briefly open up a space for the liminal, characterised as a state of 'between-ness…
A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception
In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology, this centennial anniversary is an excellent opportunity to take stock of what Gestalt psychology has offered and how it has changed since its inception. We first introduce the key findings and ideas in the Berlin school of Gestalt psychology, and then briefly sketch its developme…
An ecological valence theory of human color preference
Color preference is an important aspect of visual experience, but little is known about why people in general like some colors more than others. Previous research suggested explanations based on biological adaptations [Hurlbert AC, Ling YL (2007) Curr Biol 17:623–625] and color-emotions [Ou L-C, Luo MR, Woodcock A, Wright A (2004) Color Res Appl 29:381–389]. In this article we articulate an ecological valence theory in which color preferences ari…
Protocol of the baseline assessment for the Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) Wales cohort study
The baseline assessment of EHL will provide information concerning the impact of gestational and postnatal environments on birth outcomes and maternal and infant health. The findings can be used to inform the development of complex interventions targeted at structural, environmental factors, intended to reduce ill-health. Long-term follow-up of the cohort will focus on relationships between environmental exposures and the later development of adv…
Does social cohesion modify the association between area income deprivation and mental health? A multilevel analysis
BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing belief that the places where people live influence their health, there is surprisingly little consistent evidence for their associations with mental health. We investigated the joint effect of community and individual-level socio-economic deprivation and social cohesion on individual mental health status. METHODS: Multilevel analysis of population survey data on 10,653 adults aged 18-74 years nested within the 3…
Symptomatology attributable to psychological exposure to a chemical incident
Background: Exposure to a complex emergency has a substantial psychological component, which is rarely assessed. This study compares the health impact of physically and psychologically mediated exposure to a complex emergency. Setting: The Sea Empress oil tanker spill. Design: A cross-sectional analysis of self-report questionnaire responses collected from inhabitants of 6 different coastal towns—4 of them physically exposed to the oil spill, 2 u…
Places, people and mental health
Measuring health-related quality of life in bipolar disorder
Perceptions of social capital and the built environment and mental health
Survivors of Childhood Abuse
This article analyzes the self-reports of 384 adults who responded to a survey of people abused physically, sexually, or emotionally by family members in childhood. Most of the respondents sought help as adults from social workers and other mental health professionals for the long-term effects of their abusive experiences. This article analyses the reports of their help-seeking experiences against a backdrop of the reports of clinicians and resea…
Indirect prevalence estimates of a national drug using population
The changing discourses of risk entail more than shifts in cosmologies of misfortune: they also embrace technical changes in risk surveillance. Public health medicine has sought estimates of drug-using populations to plan drug services and to interpret data on the prevalence of infectious diseases. Concealment of risk behaviours had led to technical advances in indirect methods of population estimation, one such method being that of contact-recon…
Public Health Medicine Training
In the United Kingdom, a qualified medical doctor needs to undertake a five year training programme to reach Consultant status (Medical Specialists in a particular area such as public health, surgery, obstetrics etc.) During this period of training they are known as ‘Specialist Registrars’. Consultants in Public Health Medicine have a key training role acting as Trainers assisting these Specialist Registrars to acquire epidemiological public heal…
Les théories contemporaines de la perception de Gestalt
Modern Theories of Gestalt Perception. This paper examines four modem theories that address the problem of how holistic contextual effects might occur in the perception of simple geometric figures. These modem theories are all closely related to the original ideas of Gestalt theorists. The first three theories attempt to specify the simtulus factors that produce the emergent structure characteristic of Gestalt phenomena. The fourth theoretical ap…
Irvin Rock (1922-1995)
Yugoslav Communism and the Macedonian Question
A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception
In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology, this centennial anniversary is an excellent opportunity to take stock of what Gestalt psychology has offered and how it has changed since its inception. We first introduce the key findings and ideas in the Berlin school of Gestalt psychology, and then briefly sketch its developme…
Perceptions of social capital and the built environment and mental health
Places, people and mental health
Resilience and Vulnerability to the Psychological Harm From Flooding
Objectives. We examined the role of social cohesion as a component of vulnerability and resilience to the psychological distress of flooding. Methods. A survey collected data from 2238 individuals living in flood-affected areas of England (South Yorkshire and Worcestershire) in 2007. We used Bayesian structural equation modeling to assess factors relating to the latent variables of resilience (years in area, family nearby, and social cohesion) an…
Survivors of Childhood Abuse
This article analyzes the self-reports of 384 adults who responded to a survey of people abused physically, sexually, or emotionally by family members in childhood. Most of the respondents sought help as adults from social workers and other mental health professionals for the long-term effects of their abusive experiences. This article analyses the reports of their help-seeking experiences against a backdrop of the reports of clinicians and resea…
Interpersonal Relationships and Preferences for Mood-Congruency in Aesthetic Experiences
Prior research examining how negative feelings influence aesthetic preferences (e.g., liking of different kinds of music, movies, or stories) has reported inconsistent findings. This article proposes a theoretical argument to explain when people are more likely to prefer mood-congruent to mood-incongruent aesthetic stimuli. It is suggested that mood-congruent aesthetic experiences, for example, listening to sad songs when feeling sad, (a) serve a…
Yugoslav Communism and the Macedonian Question
Irvin Rock (1922-1995)
Les théories contemporaines de la perception de Gestalt
Modern Theories of Gestalt Perception. This paper examines four modem theories that address the problem of how holistic contextual effects might occur in the perception of simple geometric figures. These modem theories are all closely related to the original ideas of Gestalt theorists. The first three theories attempt to specify the simtulus factors that produce the emergent structure characteristic of Gestalt phenomena. The fourth theoretical ap…
Indirect prevalence estimates of a national drug using population
The changing discourses of risk entail more than shifts in cosmologies of misfortune: they also embrace technical changes in risk surveillance. Public health medicine has sought estimates of drug-using populations to plan drug services and to interpret data on the prevalence of infectious diseases. Concealment of risk behaviours had led to technical advances in indirect methods of population estimation, one such method being that of contact-recon…
Public Health Medicine Training
In the United Kingdom, a qualified medical doctor needs to undertake a five year training programme to reach Consultant status (Medical Specialists in a particular area such as public health, surgery, obstetrics etc.) During this period of training they are known as ‘Specialist Registrars’. Consultants in Public Health Medicine have a key training role acting as Trainers assisting these Specialist Registrars to acquire epidemiological public heal…
Survivors of Childhood Abuse
This article analyzes the self-reports of 384 adults who responded to a survey of people abused physically, sexually, or emotionally by family members in childhood. Most of the respondents sought help as adults from social workers and other mental health professionals for the long-term effects of their abusive experiences. This article analyses the reports of their help-seeking experiences against a backdrop of the reports of clinicians and resea…
Measuring health-related quality of life in bipolar disorder
Perceptions of social capital and the built environment and mental health
Does social cohesion modify the association between area income deprivation and mental health? A multilevel analysis
BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing belief that the places where people live influence their health, there is surprisingly little consistent evidence for their associations with mental health. We investigated the joint effect of community and individual-level socio-economic deprivation and social cohesion on individual mental health status. METHODS: Multilevel analysis of population survey data on 10,653 adults aged 18-74 years nested within the 3…
Symptomatology attributable to psychological exposure to a chemical incident
Background: Exposure to a complex emergency has a substantial psychological component, which is rarely assessed. This study compares the health impact of physically and psychologically mediated exposure to a complex emergency. Setting: The Sea Empress oil tanker spill. Design: A cross-sectional analysis of self-report questionnaire responses collected from inhabitants of 6 different coastal towns—4 of them physically exposed to the oil spill, 2 u…
Places, people and mental health
An ecological valence theory of human color preference
Color preference is an important aspect of visual experience, but little is known about why people in general like some colors more than others. Previous research suggested explanations based on biological adaptations [Hurlbert AC, Ling YL (2007) Curr Biol 17:623–625] and color-emotions [Ou L-C, Luo MR, Woodcock A, Wright A (2004) Color Res Appl 29:381–389]. In this article we articulate an ecological valence theory in which color preferences ari…
Protocol of the baseline assessment for the Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) Wales cohort study
The baseline assessment of EHL will provide information concerning the impact of gestational and postnatal environments on birth outcomes and maternal and infant health. The findings can be used to inform the development of complex interventions targeted at structural, environmental factors, intended to reduce ill-health. Long-term follow-up of the cohort will focus on relationships between environmental exposures and the later development of adv…
Visual Object Processing Author's Note
We present an overview of the functional and anatomical pathways and steps involved in going from a pattern of photoreceptor activations in the retina to recognizing an object in the world. Our focus is the geniculostriate pathway and the ventral processing stream of the cortex, which play a dominant role in object processing in humans. For recognition to occur, there must be the generation of a representation that can be matched to memory. Here …
Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice
Dead but not departed yet
In his 1999 novel Being Dead, the English writer Jim Crace exploits the potential of literary narrative for exploring the liminal space between dying and death. According to Victor Turner (1969 Turner, V. W. 1969. The ritual process: Structure and anti-structure, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. [Google Scholar]), following Van Gennep (1909/2010), ritual processes briefly open up a space for the liminal, characterised as a state of 'between-ness…
A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception
In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology, this centennial anniversary is an excellent opportunity to take stock of what Gestalt psychology has offered and how it has changed since its inception. We first introduce the key findings and ideas in the Berlin school of Gestalt psychology, and then briefly sketch its developme…
Visual Aesthetics and Human Preference
Human aesthetic preference in the visual domain is reviewed from definitional, methodological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Aesthetic science is distinguished from the perception of art and from philosophical treatments of aesthetics. The strengths and weaknesses of important behavioral techniques are presented and discussed, including two-alternative forced-choice, rank order, subjective rating, production/adjustment, indirect, and o…
Interpersonal Relationships and Preferences for Mood-Congruency in Aesthetic Experiences
Prior research examining how negative feelings influence aesthetic preferences (e.g., liking of different kinds of music, movies, or stories) has reported inconsistent findings. This article proposes a theoretical argument to explain when people are more likely to prefer mood-congruent to mood-incongruent aesthetic stimuli. It is suggested that mood-congruent aesthetic experiences, for example, listening to sad songs when feeling sad, (a) serve a…
Martyrdom and conflict
Acts of martyrdom occur at points in the history of societies when they are riven by fundamental conflicts – not only between competing political authorities, but between divergent fundamental conceptions of just where authority in a society and culture should lie. For many commentators, Ancient Greece provides us with an example of just such a society, one which was riven by a conflict between sacred and secular visions of foundational authority…
Resilience and Vulnerability to the Psychological Harm From Flooding
Objectives. We examined the role of social cohesion as a component of vulnerability and resilience to the psychological distress of flooding. Methods. A survey collected data from 2238 individuals living in flood-affected areas of England (South Yorkshire and Worcestershire) in 2007. We used Bayesian structural equation modeling to assess factors relating to the latent variables of resilience (years in area, family nearby, and social cohesion) an…
A systematic review of the relationship between objective measurements of the urban environment and psychological distress
Handbook of Coaching Psychology
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Public health (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works)