Andrew J Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 79039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9792-4036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Coming to terms with climate change: A glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being
Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of climate change can be direct (resulting from personal exposure to acute and chronic climatic changes), indirect (via the impact on various socioeconomic, political and environmental determinants of mental health) and overarching (via knowledge, education…
Crossing the color line: An examination of mediators and a social media intervention for racial bias in selective exposure to movies
Previous research has found that White audiences exhibit less preference for movies with minority casts than for movies with White casts. We conducted two experiments to explore why this race-based bias occurs and how to overcome it. In the first study, we examined potential mediators of the relationship between actors’ race and intention to view movies with minority actors. Results indicated that perceptions of the intended audience fully mediat…
What the Public “Knows” About Media Effects Research: The Influence of News Frames on Perceived Credibility and Belief Change
News articles about media effects research were presented to 333 participants to experimentally test the effects of three independent variables on perceived credibility of both the journalist and featured scientist: whether the sources in the news story supported or contradicted the findings of the featured scientist, journalist gender, and whether the story matched or mismatched preexisting beliefs about the link between media exposure and subse…
A Content Analysis of Print News Coverage of Media Violence and Aggression Research: News Coverage on Media Violence and Aggression
We conducted a content analysis of news articles (N = 540) to examine whether news coverage of media violence accurately reflects scientific knowledge about exposure to media violence and its effects on viewer aggression. The analysis revealed that over the past 30 years, news articles generally suggested that a link between media violence and aggression exists. However, the tone shifted sharply back toward a neutral conclusion since 2000. This s…
The (Non)Violent World of YouTube: Content Trends in Web Video
In this content analysis, we examined violence in Web-based entertainment. YouTube videos (N = 2,520) were collected in 3 different categories: most viewed, top rated, and random, with additional comparisons between amateur and professional content. Frequencies of violent acts and the context of violence (e.g., characteristics of perpetrator and victim, justification, consequences) were compared both between these categories of YouTube videos and…
Assessing students’ learning about fundamental concepts of climate change under two different conditions
Students from three different British Columbia grade six classes were followed through two weeks of instruction on climate change. Pre, post, and follow-up surveys were used to determine the differences in knowledge gained and retained by students that received direct instruction from their science teacher, and by those who received equivalent content instruction from outside presenters. The teacher participant also completed a survey on her expe…
The Relationship Between Selective Exposure and the Enjoyment of Television Violence
The existing research on the appeal of media violence has led to an apparent incongruity: violent content tends to increase selective exposure to media, but violence often decreases enjoyment. In this experiment, we used two independent manipulations to assess the role of violence in both selective exposure and enjoyment in order to examine the relationship between the two. Program descriptions for four prime‐time television dramas were altered t…
The Role of Actors' Race in White Audiences' Selective Exposure to Movies
Movie producers are often reluctant to cast more than a few minority actors in otherwise race-neutral movies for fear that the White audience will largely avoid such films. Two experiments were conducted to test the idea that the racial makeup of a cast could influence White audiences' selective exposure to movies. Results revealed that actors' race does influence selective exposure in certain contexts. For nonromantic movies, participants' racia…
Out of Africa and into an ice age: On the role of global climate change in the late Pleistocene migration of early modern humans out of Africa
The Role of Graphic and Sanitized Violence in the Enjoyment of Television Dramas
This experiment explores the relationship between television violence and viewer enjoyment. Over 400 participants were randomly assigned to one of 15 conditions that were created by editing five TV programs into three versions each: A graphically violent version, a sanitized violent version, and a nonviolent version. After viewing, participants reported their enjoyment of the content and emotional reactions to the content. Once we controlled for …
Chaplains Needs to be Aware of Increased Heroin Use Among Youth
Chaplaincy Research: Its Value, Its Quality, and Its Future
The article is divided into four major sections, the first of which presents and discusses various reasons given by major researchers in the field why chaplains should do research. The second section summarizes findings on the sophistication of research on religion and health published in (a) medical and other healthcare journals, and (b) specialty journals on religion and health, chaplaincy, and pastoral care and counseling. The third section re…
A Review of Research on Buddhism and Health: 1980–2003
Electronic searches of social science and biomedical literature identified 44 empirical studies that specifically investigate Buddhism, meditation, and health. The number of studies increased over time, especially in medical and other health-related fields. The studies were found to differ by geographical region with regard to the emphasis on spiritual, psychological, or physical outcomes. Results from this study are explored with respect to hist…
Nurses and Healthcare Chaplains: Natural Allies
The collaborative relationship between nurses and chaplains in the health care setting is well documented. The authors review research findings including survey results demonstrating the importance of religion and spirituality in the general population and the importance of the religion and faith in people suffering illnesses. Nurses and physicians show marked differences in their attention to spiritual care as evidenced by nurses' higher rates o…
Climate, African and Beringian subaerial continental shelves, and migration of early peoples
Trends in the Scientific Study of Religion, Spirituality, and Health: 1965–2000
Rabbis and Health: A Half-Century Review of the Mental and Physical Health Care Literature:1950–1999
Parasites, Paleoclimate, and the Peopling of the Americas: Using the Hookworm to Time the Clovis Migration
Paleoparasitological findings and paleoclimate modelling simulations indicate that early peoples migrating via the Clovis first route across Beringia into North America could not have traversed the required distance in time to provide a reasonable explanation for the presence of the hookworm in the preColumbian Americas. The introduction of the hookworm into the Americas by a land migration at around 13,000 years BP could have happened only under…
A Review of Spiritual and Religious Measures in Nursing Research Journals: 1995--1999
The influence of religion on death anxiety and death acceptance
Parishioners (n = 130) of an Episcopal church in New York City participated in a survey to explore the relationship between the religiosity, death acceptance, and death anxiety. Among the four different types of religiosity measured by the Rohrbaugh and Jessor scale, theological religiosity was the only one to have a significant effect on death acceptance and death anxiety. Belief in God’s existence (r = −0.27), and belief in the afterlife (r = −…
A Study of Pastoral Care, Referral, and Consultation Practices Among Clergy in Four Settings in the New York City Area
Factors Affecting Healthcare Chaplaincy and the Provision of Pastoral Care in the United States
A Comparative Analysis of the Psychological Literature on Collaboration Between Clergy and Mental-Health Professionals—Perspectives from Secular and Religious Journals: 1970–1999
A systematic review of research on religion and spirituality in the Journal of Traumatic Stress: 1990–1999
A Review of Mortality Research on Clergy and Other Religious Professionals
Out of Africa and into an ice age: On the role of global climate change in the late Pleistocene migration of early modern humans out of Africa
A Comparative Analysis of the Psychological Literature on Collaboration Between Clergy and Mental-Health Professionals—Perspectives from Secular and Religious Journals: 1970–1999
The Role of Graphic and Sanitized Violence in the Enjoyment of Television Dramas
This experiment explores the relationship between television violence and viewer enjoyment. Over 400 participants were randomly assigned to one of 15 conditions that were created by editing five TV programs into three versions each: A graphically violent version, a sanitized violent version, and a nonviolent version. After viewing, participants reported their enjoyment of the content and emotional reactions to the content. Once we controlled for …
Parasites, Paleoclimate, and the Peopling of the Americas: Using the Hookworm to Time the Clovis Migration
Paleoparasitological findings and paleoclimate modelling simulations indicate that early peoples migrating via the Clovis first route across Beringia into North America could not have traversed the required distance in time to provide a reasonable explanation for the presence of the hookworm in the preColumbian Americas. The introduction of the hookworm into the Americas by a land migration at around 13,000 years BP could have happened only under…
Crossing the color line: An examination of mediators and a social media intervention for racial bias in selective exposure to movies
Previous research has found that White audiences exhibit less preference for movies with minority casts than for movies with White casts. We conducted two experiments to explore why this race-based bias occurs and how to overcome it. In the first study, we examined potential mediators of the relationship between actors’ race and intention to view movies with minority actors. Results indicated that perceptions of the intended audience fully mediat…
A Study of Pastoral Care, Referral, and Consultation Practices Among Clergy in Four Settings in the New York City Area
Psychological trauma: What clergy need to know
Coming to terms with climate change: A glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being
Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of climate change can be direct (resulting from personal exposure to acute and chronic climatic changes), indirect (via the impact on various socioeconomic, political and environmental determinants of mental health) and overarching (via knowledge, education…
Assessing students’ learning about fundamental concepts of climate change under two different conditions
Students from three different British Columbia grade six classes were followed through two weeks of instruction on climate change. Pre, post, and follow-up surveys were used to determine the differences in knowledge gained and retained by students that received direct instruction from their science teacher, and by those who received equivalent content instruction from outside presenters. The teacher participant also completed a survey on her expe…
The Relationship Between Selective Exposure and the Enjoyment of Television Violence
The existing research on the appeal of media violence has led to an apparent incongruity: violent content tends to increase selective exposure to media, but violence often decreases enjoyment. In this experiment, we used two independent manipulations to assess the role of violence in both selective exposure and enjoyment in order to examine the relationship between the two. Program descriptions for four prime‐time television dramas were altered t…
Elderly suicide, mental health professionals, and the clergy: A need for clinical collaboration, training, and research
This article addresses the need for improved clergy-mental health professional collaboration in the assessment and treatment of elderly suicide. Millions of older adults with personal problems seek the counsel of clergy. A recent Gallup survey found that elders are more willing to turn to their clergy than their medical doctor or a mental health specialist for help when a friend is contemplating suicide (Gallup Organization, 1992). Elder suicide …
The distressed family and wounded children
Working with potentially dangerous persons: What clergy need to know
Psychological trauma: What clergy need to know
Ego Development in Fundamentalist and Nonfundamentalist Protestants
This study was designed to investigate the comparative ego development, religious orientation, and doctrinal beliefs of three Protestant groups: life-long fundamentalists (n=25), fundamentalist converts (n=25), and nonfundamentalist converts (n=25). Subjects from the Southern Baptist Church (fundamentalists) and United Methodist Church (nonfundamentalists) were used. Three instruments were employed: the Wiggins Content Scale of Religious Fundamen…
Can Regulation of Freshwater Runoff in Hudson Bay Affect the Climate of the North Atlantic
A sequence of phenomena links anthropogenic changes in the timing of freshwater runoff in Hudson Bay to a possible impact on the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. The chain of events starts with the spreading of estuarine plumes under ice and continues with the effect of lowered salinity on the rate of ice formation, regional effects on the scale of Hudson Bay, the export of freshwater to the Labrador Sea, its impact on deep convection in …
Elderly suicide, mental health professionals, and the clergy: A need for clinical collaboration, training, and research
This article addresses the need for improved clergy-mental health professional collaboration in the assessment and treatment of elderly suicide. Millions of older adults with personal problems seek the counsel of clergy. A recent Gallup survey found that elders are more willing to turn to their clergy than their medical doctor or a mental health specialist for help when a friend is contemplating suicide (Gallup Organization, 1992). Elder suicide …
Accidentally Informed: Incidental News Exposure on the World Wide Web
An important element of news delivery on the World Wide Web today is the near ubiquity of breaking news headlines. What used to be called search engines (e.g., Yahoo! and Lycos) are now “portals” or “hubs,” popular services that use news, weather, and other content features to extend the time users spend on the sites. Traditional models of news dissemination in the mass media often assume some level of intention behind most news exposure. The pre…
A Review of Mortality Research on Clergy and Other Religious Professionals
A systematic review of research on religion and spirituality in the Journal of Traumatic Stress: 1990–1999
Factors Affecting Healthcare Chaplaincy and the Provision of Pastoral Care in the United States
A Comparative Analysis of the Psychological Literature on Collaboration Between Clergy and Mental-Health Professionals—Perspectives from Secular and Religious Journals: 1970–1999
A Review of Spiritual and Religious Measures in Nursing Research Journals: 1995--1999
The influence of religion on death anxiety and death acceptance
Parishioners (n = 130) of an Episcopal church in New York City participated in a survey to explore the relationship between the religiosity, death acceptance, and death anxiety. Among the four different types of religiosity measured by the Rohrbaugh and Jessor scale, theological religiosity was the only one to have a significant effect on death acceptance and death anxiety. Belief in God’s existence (r = −0.27), and belief in the afterlife (r = −…
A Study of Pastoral Care, Referral, and Consultation Practices Among Clergy in Four Settings in the New York City Area
Trends in the Scientific Study of Religion, Spirituality, and Health: 1965–2000
Rabbis and Health: A Half-Century Review of the Mental and Physical Health Care Literature:1950–1999
Parasites, Paleoclimate, and the Peopling of the Americas: Using the Hookworm to Time the Clovis Migration
Paleoparasitological findings and paleoclimate modelling simulations indicate that early peoples migrating via the Clovis first route across Beringia into North America could not have traversed the required distance in time to provide a reasonable explanation for the presence of the hookworm in the preColumbian Americas. The introduction of the hookworm into the Americas by a land migration at around 13,000 years BP could have happened only under…
Chaplains Needs to be Aware of Increased Heroin Use Among Youth
Chaplaincy Research: Its Value, Its Quality, and Its Future
The article is divided into four major sections, the first of which presents and discusses various reasons given by major researchers in the field why chaplains should do research. The second section summarizes findings on the sophistication of research on religion and health published in (a) medical and other healthcare journals, and (b) specialty journals on religion and health, chaplaincy, and pastoral care and counseling. The third section re…
A Review of Research on Buddhism and Health: 1980–2003
Electronic searches of social science and biomedical literature identified 44 empirical studies that specifically investigate Buddhism, meditation, and health. The number of studies increased over time, especially in medical and other health-related fields. The studies were found to differ by geographical region with regard to the emphasis on spiritual, psychological, or physical outcomes. Results from this study are explored with respect to hist…
Nurses and Healthcare Chaplains: Natural Allies
The collaborative relationship between nurses and chaplains in the health care setting is well documented. The authors review research findings including survey results demonstrating the importance of religion and spirituality in the general population and the importance of the religion and faith in people suffering illnesses. Nurses and physicians show marked differences in their attention to spiritual care as evidenced by nurses' higher rates o…
Climate, African and Beringian subaerial continental shelves, and migration of early peoples
Out of Africa and into an ice age: On the role of global climate change in the late Pleistocene migration of early modern humans out of Africa
The Role of Graphic and Sanitized Violence in the Enjoyment of Television Dramas
This experiment explores the relationship between television violence and viewer enjoyment. Over 400 participants were randomly assigned to one of 15 conditions that were created by editing five TV programs into three versions each: A graphically violent version, a sanitized violent version, and a nonviolent version. After viewing, participants reported their enjoyment of the content and emotional reactions to the content. Once we controlled for …
The Role of Actors' Race in White Audiences' Selective Exposure to Movies
Movie producers are often reluctant to cast more than a few minority actors in otherwise race-neutral movies for fear that the White audience will largely avoid such films. Two experiments were conducted to test the idea that the racial makeup of a cast could influence White audiences' selective exposure to movies. Results revealed that actors' race does influence selective exposure in certain contexts. For nonromantic movies, participants' racia…
Psychology (23 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Law (6 works)