Alexander Garinther
Biographic Data
| ID | 6555165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Garinther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Garinther |
| SIGNATURE | GARINTHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4919-9757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Victim Number Effects in Charitable Giving
Studies of victim number effects in charitable giving consistently find that people care more and help more when presented with an appeal to help an individual compared with an appeal to help multiple people in need. Across three online experiments ( N = 1,348), Bayesian estimation revealed the opposite pattern when people responded to multiple appeals to help targets of different sizes (1, 2, 5, 7, and 12). In this joint evaluation context, part…
It’s the walk, not the talk
This article identifies a set of behavioral indicators associated with the carrying of concealed and unholstered handguns. Using qualitative data collected from interviews and focus groups with veteran law enforcement, we outline a variety of cues that, when used appropriately, can help authorities identify people who may be concealing handguns. This work provides a systematic means of assisting the police in identifying and safely interdicting p…
Information spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee resettlement Policy
Information Spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee Resettlement Policy
Violent conflict in the Middle East has forced millions to flee their homes and seek refuge in host nations around the globe. Across three studies, we asked American participants (N ∼ 1,500) to consider a refugee-resettlement policy that would bring displaced families from the Middle East into their communities, and tracked the items of information these Americans were interested in seeing during the consideration of their decision. Results sugge…
Thinking Together about Genocide
This chapter explores how people “think together” in dyads, small groups, and larger collectives via mutual influence that organizes shared attention and intention, collectively constructs and validates meaning, and collaboratively develops and adjusts distributed networks of learning, memory, and forgetting. It weaves together a selective review of psychological literature on socially shared and situated cognition with applications to the shared…
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Thinking Together about Genocide
This chapter explores how people “think together” in dyads, small groups, and larger collectives via mutual influence that organizes shared attention and intention, collectively constructs and validates meaning, and collaboratively develops and adjusts distributed networks of learning, memory, and forgetting. It weaves together a selective review of psychological literature on socially shared and situated cognition with applications to the shared…
Information Spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee Resettlement Policy
Violent conflict in the Middle East has forced millions to flee their homes and seek refuge in host nations around the globe. Across three studies, we asked American participants (N ∼ 1,500) to consider a refugee-resettlement policy that would bring displaced families from the Middle East into their communities, and tracked the items of information these Americans were interested in seeing during the consideration of their decision. Results sugge…
Information spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee resettlement Policy
It’s the walk, not the talk
This article identifies a set of behavioral indicators associated with the carrying of concealed and unholstered handguns. Using qualitative data collected from interviews and focus groups with veteran law enforcement, we outline a variety of cues that, when used appropriately, can help authorities identify people who may be concealing handguns. This work provides a systematic means of assisting the police in identifying and safely interdicting p…
Victim Number Effects in Charitable Giving
Studies of victim number effects in charitable giving consistently find that people care more and help more when presented with an appeal to help an individual compared with an appeal to help multiple people in need. Across three online experiments ( N = 1,348), Bayesian estimation revealed the opposite pattern when people responded to multiple appeals to help targets of different sizes (1, 2, 5, 7, and 12). In this joint evaluation context, part…
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · Appeal (1 work)