David P Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David P Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | David P |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 328 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Interpreting and presenting marginalized voices through intersubjective accounts
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a unique approach to accessing, interpreting, and presenting issues concerning the lives of social science research participants. It particularly focuses on accessing those considered to be economically, socially, or politically marginalized and where there is reliance upon intersubjective accounts in two languages. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual and empirical material referred to …
Uneven and unequal people-centered development
Exposure to New York City as a Risk Factor for Heart Attack Mortality
OBJECTIVE: If New York City (NYC) residents' unusually high rate of ischemic heart disease (IHD) results from chronic exposure to that city, there might also be an effect of acute exposure among visitors to NYC. We explored this possibility and also whether IHD is reduced among NYC residents dying away from the city. METHODS: Using all US death certificates for 1985-1994, we examined (correcting for age, race, and sex) IHD deaths in three groups:…
Building Meiji Tokyo
Importance of the Lay Press in the Transmission of Medical Knowledge to the Scientific Community
BACKGROUND: Efficient, undistorted communication of the results of medical research is important to physicians, the scientific community, and the public. Information that first appears in the scientific literature is frequently retransmitted in the popular press. Does popular coverage of medical research in turn amplify the effects of that research on the scientific community? METHODS: To test the hypothesis that researchers are more likely to ci…
Same Time, Last Year
This paper tests the artifnct explanation for the findings in Phillips (1983) and Bollen and Phillips (1982). (I) First test: gdeaths rise qFer real stories because ofthe timing of these stones, then deaths should also rise dter bogus stories (which fall a year ahead of the real ones) since they exhibit the same timing as the real stories. Using small samples, Baron and Reiss found a rise in deaths afier bogus stories. Using larger samples we fou…
When Violence is Rewarded or Punished
Journal Article When Violence is Rewarded or Punished: The Impact of Mass Media Stories on Homicide Get access David P. Phillips, David P. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John E. Hensley John E. Hensley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 1984, Pages 101–116, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1984.tb0217…
The Impact of Mass Media Violence on U.S. Homicides
The impact of mass media violence on aggression has almost always been studied in the laboratory; this paper examines the effect of mass media violence in the real world. The paper presents the first systematic evidence indicating that a type of mass media violence triggers a brief, sharp increase in U.S. homicides. Immediately after heavyweight championship prize fights, 1973-1978, U.S. homicides increased by 12.46 percent. The increase is great…
The Impact of Fictional Television Stories on U.S. Adult Fatalities
This paper present the first systematic evidence that violent, finctional television stories trigger imitative deaths and near-fatal accidents in the Unites States. In 1977, suicides, motor vehicle deaths, and nonfatal accidents all rose immediately following soap opera suicide stories. The U.S. female suicide increased proportionally more than male suicides. Single-vehicle crashes increased more than multiplevehicle crashes. All of these increas…
Deterrence and the Death Penalty
The Fluctuation of Homicides After Publicized Executions
Imitative Suicides
A 1974 ASR paper by Phillips showed that suicides increase in the month of highly publicized suicide stories. Several subsequent papers have built on this finding and have suggested that publicized suicide stories trigger increases in covert suicides disguised as motor vehicle or airplane accidents. If the original ASR findings cannot be replicated, then doubt is cast on all these studies. In this paper we demonstrate that U.S. daily suicides inc…
A Comment on 'The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment' By Phillips
Deterrence and the Death Penalty
The Complementary Virtues of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Suicidal Motor Vehicle Fatalities in Detroit
Recent research by Phillips suggested that publicized suicide stories triggered a rise in suicides, some of which were disguised as motor vehicle fatalities (MVF). The most striking finding of his research was a 31% jump in California MVF on the third day after publicized suicide stories. Yet, until they are replicated, we do not know whether these results are limited to: (1) California, (2) the time period studied (1966-73), or (3) the method of…
Airplane Accidents, Murder, and the Mass Media
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
On the average, homicides decrease by 35.7% immediately following a publicized execution. The more publicity devoted to the execution, the the more homicides decrease thereafter. This decrease apparently occurs because capital punishment has a short-term deterrent effect on homicides. This deterrent effect has not been demonstrated previously. A long-term deterrent effect is not evidence from the findings
Suicide, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and the Mass Media
Tarde and other classical sociologists paid a great deal of attention to the concepts of imitation and suggestion, but these concepts have been virtually ignored in modern sociology. This paper presents new findings indication that imitation and suggestion have a powerful have impact on social behavior: Three days after a publicized suicide, automobile fatalities increase by 31%. The more the suicide is publicized, the more the automobile fatalie…
Method for Classifying Interval-Scale and Ordinal-Scale Data
In reviewing the theoretical and practical importance of classification or typification, McKinney (1969, p. 4) notes: Despite the omnipresence of typologizing in social inquiry it remains a relatively 'underdeveloped' aspect of methodology generally.... It would seem to be extremely unwise not to develop a vastly increased self-consciousness, as an aspect of both the common methodology and the common theoretical orientation, with respect to the c…
The Influence of Suggestion on Suicide
This paper shows that suicides increase immediately after a suicide story has been publicized in the newspapers in Britain and in the United States, 1947-1968. The more publicity devoted to a suicide story, the larger the rise in suicides thereafter. The rise in suicides after a story is restricted mainly to the area in which the story was publicized. Alternative explanations of these findings are examined; the evidence indicates that the rise in…
A Dip in Deaths Before Ceremonial Occasions
This paper presents evidence that there are fewer deaths than expected before three ceremonial occasions: the birthday, Presidential elections, and the Jewish Day of Atonement. The investigation of mortality before the birthday was based on biographical information on 1,333 famous persons; official vital statistics tables were used to study mortality before the other two occasions. Alternative explanations of our findings are examined; the eviden…
Measuring the Structure and Boundary Properties of Groups
While sociologists have long been concerned with problems of social structure, they have not developed standardized techniques for determining the structuredness of situations. This paper presents a measure of structure drawn from information theory and demonstrates its application to a small group situation discussed in Homans' The Human Group. The measure is used to determine the number of groups in the situation, to locate group boundaries, to…
A simple mathematical reformulation of Merton's typology of deviance
The Influence of Suggestion on Suicide
This paper shows that suicides increase immediately after a suicide story has been publicized in the newspapers in Britain and in the United States, 1947-1968. The more publicity devoted to a suicide story, the larger the rise in suicides thereafter. The rise in suicides after a story is restricted mainly to the area in which the story was publicized. Alternative explanations of these findings are examined; the evidence indicates that the rise in…
The Impact of Mass Media Violence on U.S. Homicides
The impact of mass media violence on aggression has almost always been studied in the laboratory; this paper examines the effect of mass media violence in the real world. The paper presents the first systematic evidence indicating that a type of mass media violence triggers a brief, sharp increase in U.S. homicides. Immediately after heavyweight championship prize fights, 1973-1978, U.S. homicides increased by 12.46 percent. The increase is great…
A Dip in Deaths Before Ceremonial Occasions
This paper presents evidence that there are fewer deaths than expected before three ceremonial occasions: the birthday, Presidential elections, and the Jewish Day of Atonement. The investigation of mortality before the birthday was based on biographical information on 1,333 famous persons; official vital statistics tables were used to study mortality before the other two occasions. Alternative explanations of our findings are examined; the eviden…
Imitative Suicides
A 1974 ASR paper by Phillips showed that suicides increase in the month of highly publicized suicide stories. Several subsequent papers have built on this finding and have suggested that publicized suicide stories trigger increases in covert suicides disguised as motor vehicle or airplane accidents. If the original ASR findings cannot be replicated, then doubt is cast on all these studies. In this paper we demonstrate that U.S. daily suicides inc…
Suicide, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and the Mass Media
Tarde and other classical sociologists paid a great deal of attention to the concepts of imitation and suggestion, but these concepts have been virtually ignored in modern sociology. This paper presents new findings indication that imitation and suggestion have a powerful have impact on social behavior: Three days after a publicized suicide, automobile fatalities increase by 31%. The more the suicide is publicized, the more the automobile fatalie…
The Impact of Fictional Television Stories on U.S. Adult Fatalities
This paper present the first systematic evidence that violent, finctional television stories trigger imitative deaths and near-fatal accidents in the Unites States. In 1977, suicides, motor vehicle deaths, and nonfatal accidents all rose immediately following soap opera suicide stories. The U.S. female suicide increased proportionally more than male suicides. Single-vehicle crashes increased more than multiplevehicle crashes. All of these increas…
Same Time, Last Year
This paper tests the artifnct explanation for the findings in Phillips (1983) and Bollen and Phillips (1982). (I) First test: gdeaths rise qFer real stories because ofthe timing of these stones, then deaths should also rise dter bogus stories (which fall a year ahead of the real ones) since they exhibit the same timing as the real stories. Using small samples, Baron and Reiss found a rise in deaths afier bogus stories. Using larger samples we fou…
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
On the average, homicides decrease by 35.7% immediately following a publicized execution. The more publicity devoted to the execution, the the more homicides decrease thereafter. This decrease apparently occurs because capital punishment has a short-term deterrent effect on homicides. This deterrent effect has not been demonstrated previously. A long-term deterrent effect is not evidence from the findings
Airplane Accidents, Murder, and the Mass Media
Suicidal Motor Vehicle Fatalities in Detroit
Recent research by Phillips suggested that publicized suicide stories triggered a rise in suicides, some of which were disguised as motor vehicle fatalities (MVF). The most striking finding of his research was a 31% jump in California MVF on the third day after publicized suicide stories. Yet, until they are replicated, we do not know whether these results are limited to: (1) California, (2) the time period studied (1966-73), or (3) the method of…
Measuring the Structure and Boundary Properties of Groups
While sociologists have long been concerned with problems of social structure, they have not developed standardized techniques for determining the structuredness of situations. This paper presents a measure of structure drawn from information theory and demonstrates its application to a small group situation discussed in Homans' The Human Group. The measure is used to determine the number of groups in the situation, to locate group boundaries, to…
Uneven and unequal people-centered development
Interpreting and presenting marginalized voices through intersubjective accounts
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a unique approach to accessing, interpreting, and presenting issues concerning the lives of social science research participants. It particularly focuses on accessing those considered to be economically, socially, or politically marginalized and where there is reliance upon intersubjective accounts in two languages. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual and empirical material referred to …
Deterrence and the Death Penalty
A Comment on 'The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment' By Phillips
A simple mathematical reformulation of Merton's typology of deviance
Measuring the Structure and Boundary Properties of Groups
While sociologists have long been concerned with problems of social structure, they have not developed standardized techniques for determining the structuredness of situations. This paper presents a measure of structure drawn from information theory and demonstrates its application to a small group situation discussed in Homans' The Human Group. The measure is used to determine the number of groups in the situation, to locate group boundaries, to…
A Dip in Deaths Before Ceremonial Occasions
This paper presents evidence that there are fewer deaths than expected before three ceremonial occasions: the birthday, Presidential elections, and the Jewish Day of Atonement. The investigation of mortality before the birthday was based on biographical information on 1,333 famous persons; official vital statistics tables were used to study mortality before the other two occasions. Alternative explanations of our findings are examined; the eviden…
The Influence of Suggestion on Suicide
This paper shows that suicides increase immediately after a suicide story has been publicized in the newspapers in Britain and in the United States, 1947-1968. The more publicity devoted to a suicide story, the larger the rise in suicides thereafter. The rise in suicides after a story is restricted mainly to the area in which the story was publicized. Alternative explanations of these findings are examined; the evidence indicates that the rise in…
Method for Classifying Interval-Scale and Ordinal-Scale Data
In reviewing the theoretical and practical importance of classification or typification, McKinney (1969, p. 4) notes: Despite the omnipresence of typologizing in social inquiry it remains a relatively 'underdeveloped' aspect of methodology generally.... It would seem to be extremely unwise not to develop a vastly increased self-consciousness, as an aspect of both the common methodology and the common theoretical orientation, with respect to the c…
Suicide, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and the Mass Media
Tarde and other classical sociologists paid a great deal of attention to the concepts of imitation and suggestion, but these concepts have been virtually ignored in modern sociology. This paper presents new findings indication that imitation and suggestion have a powerful have impact on social behavior: Three days after a publicized suicide, automobile fatalities increase by 31%. The more the suicide is publicized, the more the automobile fatalie…
Airplane Accidents, Murder, and the Mass Media
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
On the average, homicides decrease by 35.7% immediately following a publicized execution. The more publicity devoted to the execution, the the more homicides decrease thereafter. This decrease apparently occurs because capital punishment has a short-term deterrent effect on homicides. This deterrent effect has not been demonstrated previously. A long-term deterrent effect is not evidence from the findings
The Complementary Virtues of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Suicidal Motor Vehicle Fatalities in Detroit
Recent research by Phillips suggested that publicized suicide stories triggered a rise in suicides, some of which were disguised as motor vehicle fatalities (MVF). The most striking finding of his research was a 31% jump in California MVF on the third day after publicized suicide stories. Yet, until they are replicated, we do not know whether these results are limited to: (1) California, (2) the time period studied (1966-73), or (3) the method of…
The Impact of Fictional Television Stories on U.S. Adult Fatalities
This paper present the first systematic evidence that violent, finctional television stories trigger imitative deaths and near-fatal accidents in the Unites States. In 1977, suicides, motor vehicle deaths, and nonfatal accidents all rose immediately following soap opera suicide stories. The U.S. female suicide increased proportionally more than male suicides. Single-vehicle crashes increased more than multiplevehicle crashes. All of these increas…
Deterrence and the Death Penalty
The Fluctuation of Homicides After Publicized Executions
Imitative Suicides
A 1974 ASR paper by Phillips showed that suicides increase in the month of highly publicized suicide stories. Several subsequent papers have built on this finding and have suggested that publicized suicide stories trigger increases in covert suicides disguised as motor vehicle or airplane accidents. If the original ASR findings cannot be replicated, then doubt is cast on all these studies. In this paper we demonstrate that U.S. daily suicides inc…
A Comment on 'The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment' By Phillips
Deterrence and the Death Penalty
The Impact of Mass Media Violence on U.S. Homicides
The impact of mass media violence on aggression has almost always been studied in the laboratory; this paper examines the effect of mass media violence in the real world. The paper presents the first systematic evidence indicating that a type of mass media violence triggers a brief, sharp increase in U.S. homicides. Immediately after heavyweight championship prize fights, 1973-1978, U.S. homicides increased by 12.46 percent. The increase is great…
When Violence is Rewarded or Punished
Journal Article When Violence is Rewarded or Punished: The Impact of Mass Media Stories on Homicide Get access David P. Phillips, David P. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John E. Hensley John E. Hensley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 1984, Pages 101–116, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1984.tb0217…
Same Time, Last Year
This paper tests the artifnct explanation for the findings in Phillips (1983) and Bollen and Phillips (1982). (I) First test: gdeaths rise qFer real stories because ofthe timing of these stones, then deaths should also rise dter bogus stories (which fall a year ahead of the real ones) since they exhibit the same timing as the real stories. Using small samples, Baron and Reiss found a rise in deaths afier bogus stories. Using larger samples we fou…
Importance of the Lay Press in the Transmission of Medical Knowledge to the Scientific Community
BACKGROUND: Efficient, undistorted communication of the results of medical research is important to physicians, the scientific community, and the public. Information that first appears in the scientific literature is frequently retransmitted in the popular press. Does popular coverage of medical research in turn amplify the effects of that research on the scientific community? METHODS: To test the hypothesis that researchers are more likely to ci…
Building Meiji Tokyo
Exposure to New York City as a Risk Factor for Heart Attack Mortality
OBJECTIVE: If New York City (NYC) residents' unusually high rate of ischemic heart disease (IHD) results from chronic exposure to that city, there might also be an effect of acute exposure among visitors to NYC. We explored this possibility and also whether IHD is reduced among NYC residents dying away from the city. METHODS: Using all US death certificates for 1985-1994, we examined (correcting for age, race, and sex) IHD deaths in three groups:…
Uneven and unequal people-centered development
Interpreting and presenting marginalized voices through intersubjective accounts
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a unique approach to accessing, interpreting, and presenting issues concerning the lives of social science research participants. It particularly focuses on accessing those considered to be economically, socially, or politically marginalized and where there is reliance upon intersubjective accounts in two languages. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual and empirical material referred to …
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