Brian L Pitcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian L Pitcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian L |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitcher |
| SIGNATURE | PITCHER B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consanguinity and child mortality: The risk faced by families
The Dimensions of Religiosity: A Conceptual Model with an Empirical Test
Marie Cornwall, Stan L. Albrecht, Perry H. Cunningham, Brian L. Pitcher, The Dimensions of Religiosity: A Conceptual Model with an Empirical Test, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Mar., 1986), pp. 226-244
Older Men's Perceptions of Personal Control: The Effect of Health Status
Data from the Older Male Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys are analyzed in this study to investigate antecedents of perceptions of personal control. Particular attention is given to the effects of individual health factors. The findings support the life stress model that assumes that social conditions and environmental changes affect individual perceptions of control via opportunities and resources for carrying out efficacious actions. …
Collective Learning in Ongoing Political Conflicts
Analyses of political conflict typically concentrate on various structural dimensions and neglect the underlying dynamic processes. In this research, we depart from that practice and take the collective learning process inherent in large-scale and ongoing social conflict as our focus. A mathematical model and its theoretical rationale are developed and evaluated. The model, derived from well-grounded behavioral propositions, assumes that the tren…
The Hawthorne Experiments: Statistical Evidence for a Learning Hypothesis
The historical productivity data from the Hawthorne experiments permit the statistical evaluation of the hypotheses of the original experimenters and others by conducting appropriate time-series analyses. In this paper a recent hypothesis by H. M. Parsons that the output trends in the first relay assembly test room experiment were due primarily to increased skill and competence is evaluated empirically by fitting a standard learning equation to t…
The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses
Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathem…
The Diffusion of Collective Violence
Reoriented duct flows of generalised Newtonian fluids are an idealisation of non-Newtonian fluid flow inindustrial in-line mixers. Based on scaling analysis and computation we find that non-Newtonian duct flowshave several limit behaviours, in the sense that such flows can become (nearly) independent of one or moreof the rheological and dynamical control parameters, simplifying the general flow and mixing problem. Theselimit flows give several le…
Arms Races: A Test of Two Models
This is an investigation of two models of arms races: Lewis F. Richardson's linear, additive, symmetric model and a curvilinear, asymmetric alternative based on the same interaction paradigm but with empirical equations from psychophysical experiments on perception as premises. Two hypotheses derived from each model are tested using data from seven arms races. In general, the data give stronger support to the curvilinear, asymmetric model which p…
Residency differentials in Mormon fertility
Although one of the most consistent findings of recent fertility studies is the convergence of the religious differentials in fertility, few data have been analysed to discover Mormon fertility trends and differentials. This paper, based on data obtained on 1,001 Mormon couples, is concerned with describing the effects that the dispersion of Mormon families from the Mormon centre in Utah to surrounding areas with various social conditions is havi…
The Dimensions of Religiosity: A Conceptual Model with an Empirical Test
Marie Cornwall, Stan L. Albrecht, Perry H. Cunningham, Brian L. Pitcher, The Dimensions of Religiosity: A Conceptual Model with an Empirical Test, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Mar., 1986), pp. 226-244
The Diffusion of Collective Violence
Reoriented duct flows of generalised Newtonian fluids are an idealisation of non-Newtonian fluid flow inindustrial in-line mixers. Based on scaling analysis and computation we find that non-Newtonian duct flowshave several limit behaviours, in the sense that such flows can become (nearly) independent of one or moreof the rheological and dynamical control parameters, simplifying the general flow and mixing problem. Theselimit flows give several le…
The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses
Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathem…
Arms Races: A Test of Two Models
This is an investigation of two models of arms races: Lewis F. Richardson's linear, additive, symmetric model and a curvilinear, asymmetric alternative based on the same interaction paradigm but with empirical equations from psychophysical experiments on perception as premises. Two hypotheses derived from each model are tested using data from seven arms races. In general, the data give stronger support to the curvilinear, asymmetric model which p…
Consanguinity and child mortality: The risk faced by families
Collective Learning in Ongoing Political Conflicts
Analyses of political conflict typically concentrate on various structural dimensions and neglect the underlying dynamic processes. In this research, we depart from that practice and take the collective learning process inherent in large-scale and ongoing social conflict as our focus. A mathematical model and its theoretical rationale are developed and evaluated. The model, derived from well-grounded behavioral propositions, assumes that the tren…
Residency differentials in Mormon fertility
Although one of the most consistent findings of recent fertility studies is the convergence of the religious differentials in fertility, few data have been analysed to discover Mormon fertility trends and differentials. This paper, based on data obtained on 1,001 Mormon couples, is concerned with describing the effects that the dispersion of Mormon families from the Mormon centre in Utah to surrounding areas with various social conditions is havi…
Older Men's Perceptions of Personal Control: The Effect of Health Status
Data from the Older Male Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys are analyzed in this study to investigate antecedents of perceptions of personal control. Particular attention is given to the effects of individual health factors. The findings support the life stress model that assumes that social conditions and environmental changes affect individual perceptions of control via opportunities and resources for carrying out efficacious actions. …
Residency differentials in Mormon fertility
Although one of the most consistent findings of recent fertility studies is the convergence of the religious differentials in fertility, few data have been analysed to discover Mormon fertility trends and differentials. This paper, based on data obtained on 1,001 Mormon couples, is concerned with describing the effects that the dispersion of Mormon families from the Mormon centre in Utah to surrounding areas with various social conditions is havi…
Arms Races: A Test of Two Models
This is an investigation of two models of arms races: Lewis F. Richardson's linear, additive, symmetric model and a curvilinear, asymmetric alternative based on the same interaction paradigm but with empirical equations from psychophysical experiments on perception as premises. Two hypotheses derived from each model are tested using data from seven arms races. In general, the data give stronger support to the curvilinear, asymmetric model which p…
The Diffusion of Collective Violence
Reoriented duct flows of generalised Newtonian fluids are an idealisation of non-Newtonian fluid flow inindustrial in-line mixers. Based on scaling analysis and computation we find that non-Newtonian duct flowshave several limit behaviours, in the sense that such flows can become (nearly) independent of one or moreof the rheological and dynamical control parameters, simplifying the general flow and mixing problem. Theselimit flows give several le…
The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses
Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathem…
The Hawthorne Experiments: Statistical Evidence for a Learning Hypothesis
The historical productivity data from the Hawthorne experiments permit the statistical evaluation of the hypotheses of the original experimenters and others by conducting appropriate time-series analyses. In this paper a recent hypothesis by H. M. Parsons that the output trends in the first relay assembly test room experiment were due primarily to increased skill and competence is evaluated empirically by fitting a standard learning equation to t…
Collective Learning in Ongoing Political Conflicts
Analyses of political conflict typically concentrate on various structural dimensions and neglect the underlying dynamic processes. In this research, we depart from that practice and take the collective learning process inherent in large-scale and ongoing social conflict as our focus. A mathematical model and its theoretical rationale are developed and evaluated. The model, derived from well-grounded behavioral propositions, assumes that the tren…
The Dimensions of Religiosity: A Conceptual Model with an Empirical Test
Marie Cornwall, Stan L. Albrecht, Perry H. Cunningham, Brian L. Pitcher, The Dimensions of Religiosity: A Conceptual Model with an Empirical Test, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Mar., 1986), pp. 226-244
Older Men's Perceptions of Personal Control: The Effect of Health Status
Data from the Older Male Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys are analyzed in this study to investigate antecedents of perceptions of personal control. Particular attention is given to the effects of individual health factors. The findings support the life stress model that assumes that social conditions and environmental changes affect individual perceptions of control via opportunities and resources for carrying out efficacious actions. …
Consanguinity and child mortality: The risk faced by families
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Geography (2 works)