Elizabeth J Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3655127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth J Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth J |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2494-7421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tracking the impacts of climate change on human health via indicators
Our experience shows that CCIEVIs can effectively contribute to a world-wide monitoring system that aims to track, communicate, and harness evidence on climate-induced health impacts towards effective intervention strategies. An ongoing challenge is how to improve CCIEVIs so that the description of the linkages between climate change and human health can become more and more comprehensive
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Pictorial Representation
Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understanding that individual pieces, when assembled, produce a picture. In Experiment 1, 3- to 5-year-olds (N = 117) completed jigsaw puzzles that were normal, had no picture, or comprised noninterlocking rectangular pieces. Pictorial puzzle completion was associated with mental and gr…
Reading to learn
Literacy gives children an opportunity to benefit from others' knowledge and experience that far exceeds what they can achieve when reliant on learning orally via personal encounters. Little is known about young children's understanding and use of print as a source of knowledge. Three experiments investigated children's use and understanding of printed names as sources of information about the identity of unfamiliar targets. Children in Experimen…
Scriptural Poetics
Research Article| September 01 2012 Scriptural Poetics Elizabeth Robinson Elizabeth Robinson Hugo Fellow, University of Montana [email protected] Elizabeth Robinson is the author, most recently, of Three Novels (Omnidawn, 2011) and the forthcoming Counterpart (Ahsahta, 2012). She is the 2012 and 2013 Hugo Fellow at the University of Montana. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 41–47. …
Effects of Massage on Antibody Responses After Hepatitis B Vaccination
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine whether participation in a 4-week massage intervention is associated with reduced distress and enhanced antibody responses after hepatitis B vaccine in students embarking on academic examinations. METHODS: Seventy medical student volunteers (36 women, 34 men) were randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. Baseline assessments were made of distress, health behaviors, and prevaccination ant…
Juxtaposing Beliefs and Reality
This study documents the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) for four ethnic groups and explores ethnic-specific differences and similarities in women's attitudes. Data are from a cross-sectional survey of 2,674 ever-partnered women aged 18 to 64 years. High rates of IPV among all ethnic groups reinforce the need to retain and expand current prevention and intervention efforts. Violence was not regarded as normative for any ethnic group…
Commentary
Young children's well-documented difficulty reporting the sources of their knowledge, and their susceptibility to misleading suggestions about what they saw for themselves, might be reduced when their linguistic community expresses knowledge sources with grammatical evidential markers. Alternatively, until children have acquired certain cognitive prerequisites, they may interpret evidentials simply as markers of speakers' certainty. There is evid…
Burnout and Job Satisfaction in New Zealand Psychiatrists
Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of burnout and the level of job satisfaction among New Zealand psychiatrists, and to ascertain relationships between socio-demographic variables, job satisfaction and burnout in the target population. Method: In phase one of the study a postal survey was mailed out to every practising psychiatrist on record as well as all doctors working in psychiatry without specialist qualifications (MOSS). Three questionn…
Understanding the Truth about Subjectivity
Results of two experiments show children's understanding of diversity in personal preference is incomplete. Despite acknowledging diversity, in Experiment 1 (N = 108), six‐ and eight‐year‐old children were less likely than adults to see preference as a legitimate basis for personal tastes and more likely to say a single truth could be found about a matter of taste. In Experiment 2 (N = 96), seven‐ and nine‐year‐olds were less likely than 11‐ and …
Children's differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion
Two experiments investigated children's implicit and explicit differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion. In Experiment 1, 8- to 9-year-olds' (n = 88) explicit understanding of the subjectivity of opinions was found to be limited, but their conformity to others' judgments on a matter of opinion was considerably lower than their conformity to others' views regarding an ambiguous fact. In Experiment 2, children age…
Lay conceptions of the ethical and scientific justifications for random allocation in clinical trials
Information presentation and decisions to enter clinical trials
Individual differences in the writing behaviour of undergraduate students
Background. Writing is an important skill required in all graduate employment but we lack information on the most effective ways to write, and how to foster writing expertise in students. It is widely held that writers evolve characteristic patterns of working (strategies), and that these strategies are important for writing success and efficiency. Most of the available data on the writing strategies of expert writers, however, consist of questio…
Prevalence of Low and High Birthweight Among the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec
Young children's treating of utterances as unreliable sources of knowledge
In two investigations ( N = 62 and 59), three- and four-year-old children sometimes disbelieved what they were told about the unexpected contents of a deceptive box, even when they had seen the adult speaker look inside the box before s/he told them what s/he saw, and despite being able to recall the utterance: utterances were treated as unreliable sources of knowledge compared with seeing directly. Those who did believe the utterance were no bet…
Young children's false-belief reasoning
E. J. Robinson and P. Mitchell (1992) devised a message-desire discrepant task in which a speaker gives a message based on a false belief. A correct nonliteral interpretation of the message requires taking into account this false belief, which children were more likely to achieve in this task than in a classic prediction task. In 2 studies reported here, we repeated the comparison using more closely matched tasks. The message-desire discrepant ta…
Children's understanding of the evidential connotation of ‘know’ in relation to overestimation of their own knowledge
This study examined five- to seven-year-olds' assumptions about the experiential connotation of ‘I know that's X’. In Experiment 1 children tried to identify which of a set of unfamiliar targets had a given name (X), and after they had chosen, we enquired either whether they KNEW their chosen item was (X) or whether they were SURE. Six- to seven-year-olds ( N = 39) judged that they were sure more often than they judged that they knew, which sugge…
The young child's understanding of communication
Juxtaposing Beliefs and Reality
This study documents the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) for four ethnic groups and explores ethnic-specific differences and similarities in women's attitudes. Data are from a cross-sectional survey of 2,674 ever-partnered women aged 18 to 64 years. High rates of IPV among all ethnic groups reinforce the need to retain and expand current prevention and intervention efforts. Violence was not regarded as normative for any ethnic group…
Prevalence of Low and High Birthweight Among the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec
Lay conceptions of the ethical and scientific justifications for random allocation in clinical trials
The young child's understanding of communication
Children's differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion
Two experiments investigated children's implicit and explicit differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion. In Experiment 1, 8- to 9-year-olds' (n = 88) explicit understanding of the subjectivity of opinions was found to be limited, but their conformity to others' judgments on a matter of opinion was considerably lower than their conformity to others' views regarding an ambiguous fact. In Experiment 2, children age…
Young children's false-belief reasoning
E. J. Robinson and P. Mitchell (1992) devised a message-desire discrepant task in which a speaker gives a message based on a false belief. A correct nonliteral interpretation of the message requires taking into account this false belief, which children were more likely to achieve in this task than in a classic prediction task. In 2 studies reported here, we repeated the comparison using more closely matched tasks. The message-desire discrepant ta…
Information presentation and decisions to enter clinical trials
Individual differences in the writing behaviour of undergraduate students
Background. Writing is an important skill required in all graduate employment but we lack information on the most effective ways to write, and how to foster writing expertise in students. It is widely held that writers evolve characteristic patterns of working (strategies), and that these strategies are important for writing success and efficiency. Most of the available data on the writing strategies of expert writers, however, consist of questio…
Reading to learn
Literacy gives children an opportunity to benefit from others' knowledge and experience that far exceeds what they can achieve when reliant on learning orally via personal encounters. Little is known about young children's understanding and use of print as a source of knowledge. Three experiments investigated children's use and understanding of printed names as sources of information about the identity of unfamiliar targets. Children in Experimen…
The young child's understanding of communication
Children's understanding of the evidential connotation of ‘know’ in relation to overestimation of their own knowledge
This study examined five- to seven-year-olds' assumptions about the experiential connotation of ‘I know that's X’. In Experiment 1 children tried to identify which of a set of unfamiliar targets had a given name (X), and after they had chosen, we enquired either whether they KNEW their chosen item was (X) or whether they were SURE. Six- to seven-year-olds ( N = 39) judged that they were sure more often than they judged that they knew, which sugge…
Young children's false-belief reasoning
E. J. Robinson and P. Mitchell (1992) devised a message-desire discrepant task in which a speaker gives a message based on a false belief. A correct nonliteral interpretation of the message requires taking into account this false belief, which children were more likely to achieve in this task than in a classic prediction task. In 2 studies reported here, we repeated the comparison using more closely matched tasks. The message-desire discrepant ta…
Young children's treating of utterances as unreliable sources of knowledge
In two investigations ( N = 62 and 59), three- and four-year-old children sometimes disbelieved what they were told about the unexpected contents of a deceptive box, even when they had seen the adult speaker look inside the box before s/he told them what s/he saw, and despite being able to recall the utterance: utterances were treated as unreliable sources of knowledge compared with seeing directly. Those who did believe the utterance were no bet…
Prevalence of Low and High Birthweight Among the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec
Individual differences in the writing behaviour of undergraduate students
Background. Writing is an important skill required in all graduate employment but we lack information on the most effective ways to write, and how to foster writing expertise in students. It is widely held that writers evolve characteristic patterns of working (strategies), and that these strategies are important for writing success and efficiency. Most of the available data on the writing strategies of expert writers, however, consist of questio…
Information presentation and decisions to enter clinical trials
Lay conceptions of the ethical and scientific justifications for random allocation in clinical trials
Burnout and Job Satisfaction in New Zealand Psychiatrists
Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of burnout and the level of job satisfaction among New Zealand psychiatrists, and to ascertain relationships between socio-demographic variables, job satisfaction and burnout in the target population. Method: In phase one of the study a postal survey was mailed out to every practising psychiatrist on record as well as all doctors working in psychiatry without specialist qualifications (MOSS). Three questionn…
Understanding the Truth about Subjectivity
Results of two experiments show children's understanding of diversity in personal preference is incomplete. Despite acknowledging diversity, in Experiment 1 (N = 108), six‐ and eight‐year‐old children were less likely than adults to see preference as a legitimate basis for personal tastes and more likely to say a single truth could be found about a matter of taste. In Experiment 2 (N = 96), seven‐ and nine‐year‐olds were less likely than 11‐ and …
Children's differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion
Two experiments investigated children's implicit and explicit differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion. In Experiment 1, 8- to 9-year-olds' (n = 88) explicit understanding of the subjectivity of opinions was found to be limited, but their conformity to others' judgments on a matter of opinion was considerably lower than their conformity to others' views regarding an ambiguous fact. In Experiment 2, children age…
Commentary
Young children's well-documented difficulty reporting the sources of their knowledge, and their susceptibility to misleading suggestions about what they saw for themselves, might be reduced when their linguistic community expresses knowledge sources with grammatical evidential markers. Alternatively, until children have acquired certain cognitive prerequisites, they may interpret evidentials simply as markers of speakers' certainty. There is evid…
Juxtaposing Beliefs and Reality
This study documents the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) for four ethnic groups and explores ethnic-specific differences and similarities in women's attitudes. Data are from a cross-sectional survey of 2,674 ever-partnered women aged 18 to 64 years. High rates of IPV among all ethnic groups reinforce the need to retain and expand current prevention and intervention efforts. Violence was not regarded as normative for any ethnic group…
Scriptural Poetics
Research Article| September 01 2012 Scriptural Poetics Elizabeth Robinson Elizabeth Robinson Hugo Fellow, University of Montana [email protected] Elizabeth Robinson is the author, most recently, of Three Novels (Omnidawn, 2011) and the forthcoming Counterpart (Ahsahta, 2012). She is the 2012 and 2013 Hugo Fellow at the University of Montana. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 41–47. …
Effects of Massage on Antibody Responses After Hepatitis B Vaccination
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine whether participation in a 4-week massage intervention is associated with reduced distress and enhanced antibody responses after hepatitis B vaccine in students embarking on academic examinations. METHODS: Seventy medical student volunteers (36 women, 34 men) were randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. Baseline assessments were made of distress, health behaviors, and prevaccination ant…
Reading to learn
Literacy gives children an opportunity to benefit from others' knowledge and experience that far exceeds what they can achieve when reliant on learning orally via personal encounters. Little is known about young children's understanding and use of print as a source of knowledge. Three experiments investigated children's use and understanding of printed names as sources of information about the identity of unfamiliar targets. Children in Experimen…
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Pictorial Representation
Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understanding that individual pieces, when assembled, produce a picture. In Experiment 1, 3- to 5-year-olds (N = 117) completed jigsaw puzzles that were normal, had no picture, or comprised noninterlocking rectangular pieces. Pictorial puzzle completion was associated with mental and gr…
Tracking the impacts of climate change on human health via indicators
Our experience shows that CCIEVIs can effectively contribute to a world-wide monitoring system that aims to track, communicate, and harness evidence on climate-induced health impacts towards effective intervention strategies. An ongoing challenge is how to improve CCIEVIs so that the description of the linkages between climate change and human health can become more and more comprehensive
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