Gale Lucas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5121185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gale Lucas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gale |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3089-9283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Emergency dynamics modeling with an agent-based framework
Modeling human-induced emergencies requires a structured representation of interactions among occupants, hazards, and built environments. While existing simulation approaches provide important insights, behavioral processes, hazard progression, and architectural conditions are often examined separately. This study develops a parameterized agent-based modeling framework that integrates heterogeneous occupant behaviors, hazard dynamics, and environ…
Impact of behavior-based virtual training on active shooter incident preparedness in healthcare facilities
Be prepared
Virtual Human–Delivered Interviews for Patients With Chronic Pain
OBJECTIVE: Seminal advances in virtual human (VH) technology have introduced highly interactive, computer-animated VH interviewers. Their utility for aiding in chronic pain care is unknown. We developed three interactive telehealth VH interviews-a standard pain-focused, a psychosocial risk factor, and a pain psychology and neuroscience educational interview. We then conducted a preliminary investigation of their feasibility, acceptability, and ef…
The avatar will see you now
When people are in emotional distress, they often seek support. Virtual humans may provide unique and complementary benefits to human support provision, given that virtual humans are readily available and help sharers overcome socio-evaluative threats, thereby increasing willingness to disclose. Here, we examined whether talking to a virtual human elicits socio-emotional benefits, and whether this is moderated by the type of support provided. To …
Worker Perspectives on Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Office Workspaces
Workplace environments have a significant impact on worker performance, health, and well-being. With machine learning capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) can be developed to automate individualized adjustments to work environments (e.g., lighting, temperature) and to facilitate healthier worker behaviors (e.g., posture). Worker perspectives on incorporating AI into office workspaces are largely unexplored. Thus, the purpose of this study w…
Building preparedness in response to active shooter incidents
Against Game Theory
People make choices. Often, the outcome depends on choices other people make. What mental steps do people go through when making such choices? Game theory, the most influential model of choice in economics and the social sciences, offers an answer, one based on games of strategy such as chess and checkers: the chooser considers the choices that others will make and makes a choice that will lead to a better outcome for the chooser, given all those…
When the going gets tough
It’s only a computer
Validating a Measure of Self and Partner Change in Romantic Relationships
In romantic relationships, individuals take attributes of their romantic partner into their own self-concept, thus becoming increasingly similar to their partner. The current research tested the possibility that some individuals may take on the characteristics of their romantic partner to a greater extent. The Perceived Change in Relationships Scale was designed to measure the extent to which individuals report changing to be like their romantic …
Motivations for prevention or promotion following social exclusion
Social exclusion evokes powerful motivations and emotions. The present studies examined how these motivations and emotions might differ following exclusion that is explicit, active, and direct (i.e., when one is rejected) versus implicit, passive, and indirect (i.e., when one is ignored). It was hypothesized that being rejected should produce a sense of social loss and lead to more prevention-focused responses, including withdrawal from social co…
Individual differences in perceived esteem across cultures
A study was conducted to investigate individual differences in perceived esteem (perceptions of how positively one is viewed by others) and the relationship between perceived esteem, self-esteem, self-monitoring, and life satisfaction across cultures. A study with Japanese and American college students (and a pilot study with Caucasian and Asian American participants), indicated that a 10-item measure of perceived esteem, assessing such perceptio…
Motivations for prevention or promotion following social exclusion
Social exclusion evokes powerful motivations and emotions. The present studies examined how these motivations and emotions might differ following exclusion that is explicit, active, and direct (i.e., when one is rejected) versus implicit, passive, and indirect (i.e., when one is ignored). It was hypothesized that being rejected should produce a sense of social loss and lead to more prevention-focused responses, including withdrawal from social co…
When the going gets tough
Individual differences in perceived esteem across cultures
A study was conducted to investigate individual differences in perceived esteem (perceptions of how positively one is viewed by others) and the relationship between perceived esteem, self-esteem, self-monitoring, and life satisfaction across cultures. A study with Japanese and American college students (and a pilot study with Caucasian and Asian American participants), indicated that a 10-item measure of perceived esteem, assessing such perceptio…
Motivations for prevention or promotion following social exclusion
Social exclusion evokes powerful motivations and emotions. The present studies examined how these motivations and emotions might differ following exclusion that is explicit, active, and direct (i.e., when one is rejected) versus implicit, passive, and indirect (i.e., when one is ignored). It was hypothesized that being rejected should produce a sense of social loss and lead to more prevention-focused responses, including withdrawal from social co…
Validating a Measure of Self and Partner Change in Romantic Relationships
In romantic relationships, individuals take attributes of their romantic partner into their own self-concept, thus becoming increasingly similar to their partner. The current research tested the possibility that some individuals may take on the characteristics of their romantic partner to a greater extent. The Perceived Change in Relationships Scale was designed to measure the extent to which individuals report changing to be like their romantic …
It’s only a computer
Against Game Theory
People make choices. Often, the outcome depends on choices other people make. What mental steps do people go through when making such choices? Game theory, the most influential model of choice in economics and the social sciences, offers an answer, one based on games of strategy such as chess and checkers: the chooser considers the choices that others will make and makes a choice that will lead to a better outcome for the chooser, given all those…
When the going gets tough
Building preparedness in response to active shooter incidents
Worker Perspectives on Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Office Workspaces
Workplace environments have a significant impact on worker performance, health, and well-being. With machine learning capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) can be developed to automate individualized adjustments to work environments (e.g., lighting, temperature) and to facilitate healthier worker behaviors (e.g., posture). Worker perspectives on incorporating AI into office workspaces are largely unexplored. Thus, the purpose of this study w…
The avatar will see you now
When people are in emotional distress, they often seek support. Virtual humans may provide unique and complementary benefits to human support provision, given that virtual humans are readily available and help sharers overcome socio-evaluative threats, thereby increasing willingness to disclose. Here, we examined whether talking to a virtual human elicits socio-emotional benefits, and whether this is moderated by the type of support provided. To …
Be prepared
Virtual Human–Delivered Interviews for Patients With Chronic Pain
OBJECTIVE: Seminal advances in virtual human (VH) technology have introduced highly interactive, computer-animated VH interviewers. Their utility for aiding in chronic pain care is unknown. We developed three interactive telehealth VH interviews-a standard pain-focused, a psychosocial risk factor, and a pain psychology and neuroscience educational interview. We then conducted a preliminary investigation of their feasibility, acceptability, and ef…
Impact of behavior-based virtual training on active shooter incident preparedness in healthcare facilities
Emergency dynamics modeling with an agent-based framework
Modeling human-induced emergencies requires a structured representation of interactions among occupants, hazards, and built environments. While existing simulation approaches provide important insights, behavioral processes, hazard progression, and architectural conditions are often examined separately. This study develops a parameterized agent-based modeling framework that integrates heterogeneous occupant behaviors, hazard dynamics, and environ…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (3 works) · Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Preparedness (3 works)