Akiva Liberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5450472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akiva Liberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akiva |
| FAMILY NAME | Liberman |
| SIGNATURE | LIBERMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Labeling Effects of First Juvenile Arrests
A growing literature suggests that juvenile arrests perpetuate offending and increase the likelihood of future arrests. The effect on subsequent arrests is generally regarded as a product of the perpetuation of criminal offending. However, increased rearrest also may reflect differential law enforcement behavior. Using longitudinal data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) together with official arrest records, t…
The Long View of Crime
Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress in Police and Other First Responders
We provide an overview of previous research conducted by our group on risk and resilience factors for PTSD symptoms in police and other first responders. Based on our work, the findings of other investigators on individual differences in risk for PTSD, and drawing on preclinical studies fear conditioning and extinction, we propose a conceptual model for the development of PTSD symptoms emphasizing the role of vulnerability and resilience to perit…
The effectiveness of early childhood home visitation in preventing violence
How Much More Likely? The Implications of Odds Ratios for Probabilities
Binary outcome data are common in research and evaluation. They are often analyzed using logistic regression, and results of these analyses are often reported in the form of odds ratios (ORs). However, ORs are not directly interpretable in the metric commonly used in policy-relevant discussions, which concerns probabilities. ORs are unfamiliar to nonresearchers, and their relationship to probability implications is not well understood by research…
Critical Incident Exposure and Sleep Quality in Police Officers
OBJECTIVE: Police officers face many stressors that may negatively impact sleep quality. This study compares subjective sleep quality in police officers with that in control subjects not involved in police or emergency services. We examined the effects of critical incident exposure (trauma exposure) and routine (nontraumatic) work environment stressors on sleep quality after controlling for the effects of work shift schedule. METHODS: Subjective …
Defensive Processing of Personally Relevant Health Messages
Subectsfor whom a health threat was relvant or irrelevant were recruited and matched on prior beliefs in the health threat. Following exposure to either a low- or a high-threat message, high-relvance subjects were less likely to believe in the threat. Consistent with earlier work, no evidence was found to suggest that defensive inattention to the messages mediated subjects' final beliefs. Instead, processing measures suggested that highrelevance …
Value conflict and thought-induced attitude change
Past research has demonstrated that thought often leads attitudes to become more extreme. Such polarization of attitudes has generally been understood to result from consistency-driven thought. Extending this consistency reasoning, we hypothesized that consistency seeking would not lead to attitude polarization when an issue entails a trade-off between two equally important values. On the basis of the similarity of subjects' rankings of two confl…
Labeling Effects of First Juvenile Arrests
A growing literature suggests that juvenile arrests perpetuate offending and increase the likelihood of future arrests. The effect on subsequent arrests is generally regarded as a product of the perpetuation of criminal offending. However, increased rearrest also may reflect differential law enforcement behavior. Using longitudinal data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) together with official arrest records, t…
Value conflict and thought-induced attitude change
Past research has demonstrated that thought often leads attitudes to become more extreme. Such polarization of attitudes has generally been understood to result from consistency-driven thought. Extending this consistency reasoning, we hypothesized that consistency seeking would not lead to attitude polarization when an issue entails a trade-off between two equally important values. On the basis of the similarity of subjects' rankings of two confl…
How Much More Likely? The Implications of Odds Ratios for Probabilities
Binary outcome data are common in research and evaluation. They are often analyzed using logistic regression, and results of these analyses are often reported in the form of odds ratios (ORs). However, ORs are not directly interpretable in the metric commonly used in policy-relevant discussions, which concerns probabilities. ORs are unfamiliar to nonresearchers, and their relationship to probability implications is not well understood by research…
Value conflict and thought-induced attitude change
Past research has demonstrated that thought often leads attitudes to become more extreme. Such polarization of attitudes has generally been understood to result from consistency-driven thought. Extending this consistency reasoning, we hypothesized that consistency seeking would not lead to attitude polarization when an issue entails a trade-off between two equally important values. On the basis of the similarity of subjects' rankings of two confl…
Defensive Processing of Personally Relevant Health Messages
Subectsfor whom a health threat was relvant or irrelevant were recruited and matched on prior beliefs in the health threat. Following exposure to either a low- or a high-threat message, high-relvance subjects were less likely to believe in the threat. Consistent with earlier work, no evidence was found to suggest that defensive inattention to the messages mediated subjects' final beliefs. Instead, processing measures suggested that highrelevance …
Critical Incident Exposure and Sleep Quality in Police Officers
OBJECTIVE: Police officers face many stressors that may negatively impact sleep quality. This study compares subjective sleep quality in police officers with that in control subjects not involved in police or emergency services. We examined the effects of critical incident exposure (trauma exposure) and routine (nontraumatic) work environment stressors on sleep quality after controlling for the effects of work shift schedule. METHODS: Subjective …
The effectiveness of early childhood home visitation in preventing violence
How Much More Likely? The Implications of Odds Ratios for Probabilities
Binary outcome data are common in research and evaluation. They are often analyzed using logistic regression, and results of these analyses are often reported in the form of odds ratios (ORs). However, ORs are not directly interpretable in the metric commonly used in policy-relevant discussions, which concerns probabilities. ORs are unfamiliar to nonresearchers, and their relationship to probability implications is not well understood by research…
Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress in Police and Other First Responders
We provide an overview of previous research conducted by our group on risk and resilience factors for PTSD symptoms in police and other first responders. Based on our work, the findings of other investigators on individual differences in risk for PTSD, and drawing on preclinical studies fear conditioning and extinction, we propose a conceptual model for the development of PTSD symptoms emphasizing the role of vulnerability and resilience to perit…
The Long View of Crime
Labeling Effects of First Juvenile Arrests
A growing literature suggests that juvenile arrests perpetuate offending and increase the likelihood of future arrests. The effect on subsequent arrests is generally regarded as a product of the perpetuation of criminal offending. However, increased rearrest also may reflect differential law enforcement behavior. Using longitudinal data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) together with official arrest records, t…
Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Statistics (3 works) · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (2 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works)