Barry Dewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5190142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Dewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewitt |
| SIGNATURE | DEWITT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1622-6736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Evaluating Information on Medication Abortion
The Food and Drug Administration proposed “patient medication information” inserts for all medications, including the abortion drug Mifepristone. It is unclear how abortion attitudes or state policies affect how people evaluate such communications. Participants ( n = 311) were randomized to view variants of the Mifepristone insert. Linear regression was used to assess abortion attitudes’ and policies’ relationships with comprehension and perceive…
Imagining Resilient Courts
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has challenged an array of democratic institutions in complex and unprecedented ways. Little academic work, however, has considered the pandemic's impact on Canada's courts. This article aims to partially fill that gap by exploring the Canadian court system's response to COVID-19 and the prospects for administering justice amid disasters, all through the lens of resilience. After taking a forensic …
A secure procedure for early career scientists to report apparent misconduct
Early career scientists sometimes observe senior scientists engage in apparent scientific misconduct, but feel powerless to intervene, lest they imperil their careers. We propose a Secure Reporting Procedure that both protects them, when pursuing those concerns, and treats the senior scientists fairly. The proposed procedure is, we argue, consistent with the ethical principles of the scientific community, as expressed in the codes of its professi…
“Science and proven experience”
The Swedish medico-legal concept of "science and proven experience" is both legally important and ambiguous. The conceptual uncertainty associated with it can hamper effective assessment of medical evidence in legal proceedings and encourage medical professionals to distrust legal regulation. We examine normative criteria a functioning medico-legal notion should presumably meet, e.g. clarity, acceptability and consistency with existing laws. We a…
Environmental risk perception from visual cues
Power analysis code, library of cloud pictures, supplementary information, and data analysis code for Dewitt, B., Fischhoff, B., Davis, A., & Broomell, S. B. (2015). Environmental risk perception from visual cues: the psychophysics of tornado risk perception. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12), 124009
No prominent works on this page.
Environmental risk perception from visual cues
Power analysis code, library of cloud pictures, supplementary information, and data analysis code for Dewitt, B., Fischhoff, B., Davis, A., & Broomell, S. B. (2015). Environmental risk perception from visual cues: the psychophysics of tornado risk perception. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12), 124009
“Science and proven experience”
The Swedish medico-legal concept of "science and proven experience" is both legally important and ambiguous. The conceptual uncertainty associated with it can hamper effective assessment of medical evidence in legal proceedings and encourage medical professionals to distrust legal regulation. We examine normative criteria a functioning medico-legal notion should presumably meet, e.g. clarity, acceptability and consistency with existing laws. We a…
Imagining Resilient Courts
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has challenged an array of democratic institutions in complex and unprecedented ways. Little academic work, however, has considered the pandemic's impact on Canada's courts. This article aims to partially fill that gap by exploring the Canadian court system's response to COVID-19 and the prospects for administering justice amid disasters, all through the lens of resilience. After taking a forensic …
A secure procedure for early career scientists to report apparent misconduct
Early career scientists sometimes observe senior scientists engage in apparent scientific misconduct, but feel powerless to intervene, lest they imperil their careers. We propose a Secure Reporting Procedure that both protects them, when pursuing those concerns, and treats the senior scientists fairly. The proposed procedure is, we argue, consistent with the ethical principles of the scientific community, as expressed in the codes of its professi…
Evaluating Information on Medication Abortion
The Food and Drug Administration proposed “patient medication information” inserts for all medications, including the abortion drug Mifepristone. It is unclear how abortion attitudes or state policies affect how people evaluate such communications. Participants ( n = 311) were randomized to view variants of the Mifepristone insert. Linear regression was used to assess abortion attitudes’ and policies’ relationships with comprehension and perceive…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Perception (2 works)