James F Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James F Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | James F |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-1704-5778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning How to Learn: An Innovative Medical School Orientation Activity
Forming Physicians: Evaluating the Opportunities and Benefits of Structured Integration of Humanities and Ethics into Medical Education
This paper offers a novel, qualitative approach to evaluating the outcomes of integrating humanities and ethics into a newly revised pre-clerkship medical education curriculum. The authors set out to evaluate medical students’ perceptions, learning outcomes, and growth in identity development. Led by a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this qualitative project examines multiple sources of student experience and perception data, including studen…
Using return on investment and resiliency return on investment for preparedness
Return on investment (ROI) has long been accepted as a primary tool for decision‐making for capital investments and even choices among competing operational budget lines. Applying ROI to investments intended to prevent or mitigate future risks and hazards can be very difficult, as benefits are typically arduous to define and calculate while risk probabilities can be very small. This paper uses examples from recent research concerning law enforcem…
The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933-2000
Journal Article The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933–2000 Get access Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin (eds), The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933–2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012, 288 pp. Justin Smith Justin Smith [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 2013, Pages 279–2…
Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All of the Time
Over the three decades leading up to the crisis of 2008, inequality dramatically increased in the United States and Great Britain. What stands out, but is seldom noted, is that this occurred within democracies where the relative losers-the overwhelming majority-could in principle have used the political system to block or reverse rising inequality. Why did they not do so? A glance at history reveals that peoples have only very infrequently contes…
Abrams Prize Winners - 2000 and 2001
Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered
Journal Article Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered. By James Kirby Martin. (New York: New York University Press, 1997. xxii, 535 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8147-5560-7.) Get access James F. Smith James F. Smith Leominster School System, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 655–656, https:/…
Ben Siegel: Father of Las Vegas and the Modern Casino‐Hotel
Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities: A Dreiser Novel for the 1980s
Heuristics and biases: Expertise and task realism in auditing
Important issues concerning generalizations drawn from heuristics research that depict humans as highly prone to a number of judgmental biases have been raised in recent years. Some researches have argued that the tasks and subjects examined do not adequately represent the contexts to which generalizations are made, citing evidence of improved performance for expert judges working realistic, familar tasks. This article presents additional evidenc…
The Business of Risk: Commercial Gambling in Mainstream America
FAO's aid in Africa
Gambling: The misunderstood sport— a problem in social definition
The prevailing social science perspective views gambling as a socially deviant activity with detrimental consequences for the individual and society. This paper presents an alternative perspective which views gambling as human play sharing much of the structural and functional components of acceptable sport activity. Gambling has conventional rules for defining participation, for determining legitimate winning and losing, and for judging expert p…
Gambling as Play
Individuals are socialized into a culture by means of various myths and rituals characteristic of that culture. Among the rituals that reflect, articulate, and transmit cultural myths are play and games. Materialism and competition are two distinguishing traits of the American character that are reflected in the games children and adolescents play; and in a world that encourages great expectations while offering diminishing opportunities for fulf…
Blacks and Blues: Amiri Baraka's Esthetic
Humor, Cultural History and Jean Shepherd
Heuristics and biases: Expertise and task realism in auditing
Important issues concerning generalizations drawn from heuristics research that depict humans as highly prone to a number of judgmental biases have been raised in recent years. Some researches have argued that the tasks and subjects examined do not adequately represent the contexts to which generalizations are made, citing evidence of improved performance for expert judges working realistic, familar tasks. This article presents additional evidenc…
Gambling as Play
Individuals are socialized into a culture by means of various myths and rituals characteristic of that culture. Among the rituals that reflect, articulate, and transmit cultural myths are play and games. Materialism and competition are two distinguishing traits of the American character that are reflected in the games children and adolescents play; and in a world that encourages great expectations while offering diminishing opportunities for fulf…
The Business of Risk: Commercial Gambling in Mainstream America
Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All of the Time
Over the three decades leading up to the crisis of 2008, inequality dramatically increased in the United States and Great Britain. What stands out, but is seldom noted, is that this occurred within democracies where the relative losers-the overwhelming majority-could in principle have used the political system to block or reverse rising inequality. Why did they not do so? A glance at history reveals that peoples have only very infrequently contes…
Gambling: The misunderstood sport— a problem in social definition
The prevailing social science perspective views gambling as a socially deviant activity with detrimental consequences for the individual and society. This paper presents an alternative perspective which views gambling as human play sharing much of the structural and functional components of acceptable sport activity. Gambling has conventional rules for defining participation, for determining legitimate winning and losing, and for judging expert p…
The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933-2000
Journal Article The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933–2000 Get access Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin (eds), The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933–2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012, 288 pp. Justin Smith Justin Smith [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 2013, Pages 279–2…
Ben Siegel: Father of Las Vegas and the Modern Casino‐Hotel
Humor, Cultural History and Jean Shepherd
Blacks and Blues: Amiri Baraka's Esthetic
FAO's aid in Africa
Gambling: The misunderstood sport— a problem in social definition
The prevailing social science perspective views gambling as a socially deviant activity with detrimental consequences for the individual and society. This paper presents an alternative perspective which views gambling as human play sharing much of the structural and functional components of acceptable sport activity. Gambling has conventional rules for defining participation, for determining legitimate winning and losing, and for judging expert p…
Gambling as Play
Individuals are socialized into a culture by means of various myths and rituals characteristic of that culture. Among the rituals that reflect, articulate, and transmit cultural myths are play and games. Materialism and competition are two distinguishing traits of the American character that are reflected in the games children and adolescents play; and in a world that encourages great expectations while offering diminishing opportunities for fulf…
The Business of Risk: Commercial Gambling in Mainstream America
Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities: A Dreiser Novel for the 1980s
Heuristics and biases: Expertise and task realism in auditing
Important issues concerning generalizations drawn from heuristics research that depict humans as highly prone to a number of judgmental biases have been raised in recent years. Some researches have argued that the tasks and subjects examined do not adequately represent the contexts to which generalizations are made, citing evidence of improved performance for expert judges working realistic, familar tasks. This article presents additional evidenc…
Ben Siegel: Father of Las Vegas and the Modern Casino‐Hotel
Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered
Journal Article Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered. By James Kirby Martin. (New York: New York University Press, 1997. xxii, 535 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8147-5560-7.) Get access James F. Smith James F. Smith Leominster School System, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 655–656, https:/…
Abrams Prize Winners - 2000 and 2001
Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All of the Time
Over the three decades leading up to the crisis of 2008, inequality dramatically increased in the United States and Great Britain. What stands out, but is seldom noted, is that this occurred within democracies where the relative losers-the overwhelming majority-could in principle have used the political system to block or reverse rising inequality. Why did they not do so? A glance at history reveals that peoples have only very infrequently contes…
The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933-2000
Journal Article The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933–2000 Get access Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin (eds), The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933–2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012, 288 pp. Justin Smith Justin Smith [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 2013, Pages 279–2…
Learning How to Learn: An Innovative Medical School Orientation Activity
Forming Physicians: Evaluating the Opportunities and Benefits of Structured Integration of Humanities and Ethics into Medical Education
This paper offers a novel, qualitative approach to evaluating the outcomes of integrating humanities and ethics into a newly revised pre-clerkship medical education curriculum. The authors set out to evaluate medical students’ perceptions, learning outcomes, and growth in identity development. Led by a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this qualitative project examines multiple sources of student experience and perception data, including studen…
Using return on investment and resiliency return on investment for preparedness
Return on investment (ROI) has long been accepted as a primary tool for decision‐making for capital investments and even choices among competing operational budget lines. Applying ROI to investments intended to prevent or mitigate future risks and hazards can be very difficult, as benefits are typically arduous to define and calculate while risk probabilities can be very small. This paper uses examples from recent research concerning law enforcem…
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