Irwin Silverman
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Irwin Silverman is a professor of psychology at York University. With Marion Eals, he has studied sex differences in intelligence from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. External links Faculty page
Irwin Silverman's Published Works
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Published Works
- Sex differences in spatial abilities: Evolutionary theory and data. (1992) (523)
- The Hunter-Gatherer theory of spatial sex differences: Proximate factors mediating the female advantage in recall of object arrays (1994) (438)
- The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities: Data from 40 Countries (2007) (315)
- Gender Differences in Delay of Gratification: A Meta-Analysis (2003) (292)
- Effects of play on associative fluency in preschool-aged children. (1973) (221)
- Effects of estrogen changes during the menstrual cycle on spatial performance (1993) (174)
- Testosterone levels and spatial ability in men (1999) (149)
- Play: A General Facilitator of Associative Fluency. (1975) (146)
- SELF-ESTEEM AND DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSIVENESS TO SUCCESS AND FAILURE. (1964) (137)
- Reference groups : exploration into conformity and deviation of adolescents (1966) (114)
- Social Change and Prejudice (1964) (113)
- Gender and Sexual Orientation Differences in Cognition Across Adulthood: Age Is Kinder to Women than to Men Regardless of Sexual Orientation (2007) (111)
- Homogeneity of Effect Sizes for Sex across Spatial Tests and Cultures: Implications for Hormonal Theories (1996) (96)
- Differences in the Relationship of Menstrual Cycle Phase to Spatial Performance on Two- and Three-Dimensional Tasks (1997) (92)
- Sex Differences in Simple Visual Reaction Time: A Historical Meta-Analysis (2006) (87)
- Child and maternal correlates of impulse control in 24-month-old children. (1990) (79)
- Sex Related Factors in the Perception of Threatening Facial Expressions (2002) (77)
- Processes underlying sex differences in route-learning strategies in children and adolescents (2003) (69)
- Effects of deceiving and debriefing psychological subjects on performance in later experiments. (1970) (65)
- Pupillometry: A sexual selection approach (2004) (65)
- Early proximity and intimacy between siblings and incestuous behavior: A test of the Westermarck theory (1993) (60)
- Internal vs. external control of reinforcement and attention in a decision‐making task1 (1968) (57)
- A short-term longitudinal study of the early development of self-regulation (1992) (56)
- Dyadic interaction and conservation induction : A test of Piaget's equilibration model (1973) (55)
- DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF EGO THREAT UPON PERSUASIBILITY FOR HIGH AND LOW SELF-ESTEEM SUBJECTS. (1964) (50)
- SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN SPATIAL BEHAVIORS: APPLICATIONS TO ROUTE LEARNING (1996) (49)
- The Human Subject in the Psychological Laboratory (1977) (48)
- The Human Subject in the Psychological Laboratory (1977) (48)
- Effects of Sudden Mass School Desegregation on Interracial Interaction and Attitudes in One Southern City (1973) (47)
- The relationship between testosterone and route-learning strategies in humans (2002) (44)
- Simple reaction time: it is not what it used to be. (2010) (43)
- Crisis in social psychology: The relevance of relevance. (1971) (40)
- Diffusion of Responsibility in Charitable Donations (1983) (39)
- Modifying Cognitive Functioning Through Participation in a Problem-Solving Group. (1972) (39)
- Role-related behavior of subjects in laboratory studies of attitude change. (1968) (38)
- The experimenter as a source of variance in psychological research: Modeling and sex effects. (1972) (34)
- Why social psychology fails. (1977) (33)
- Gender differences in resistance to temptation: Theories and evidence (2003) (33)
- The evolutionary psychology of spatial sex differences. (1998) (31)
- Maternal antecedents of delay ability in young children (1995) (30)
- A Conceptual Model of Artifact in Attitude Change Studies 1 (1970) (30)
- Inter-related effects of social desirability, sex, self-esteem, and complexity of argument on persuasibility. (1966) (29)
- Physical Attractiveness and Courtship. (1971) (26)
- Subitizing and counting skills in 3-year-olds. (1980) (24)
- The r/K theory of human individual differences (1990) (24)
- Social desirability and need approval: some paradoxical data and a conceptual re-evaluation. (1974) (24)
- Punitiveness in response to films varying in content: A cross‐national field study of aggression (1975) (23)
- Evaluation Apprehension, Demand Characteristics, and the Effects of Distraction on Persuasibility (1968) (23)
- The r/K theory of human individual differences: Scientific and social issues (1989) (23)
- Non-Euclidean Navigational Strategies of Women: Compensatory Response or Evolved Dimorphism? (2006) (22)
- The secular trend for grip strength in Canada and the United States (2011) (22)
- The experimenter: A (still) neglected stimulus object. (1974) (22)
- The influence of genomic imprinting on brain development and behavior (2001) (22)
- Demand characteristics versus dissonance reduction as determinants of failure-seeking behavior. (1965) (20)
- Response-set bias and predictive validity associated with Kogan's "attitudes toward old people scale". (1966) (20)
- Effect of verbalization on reversal shifts in children: additional data. (1966) (19)
- Nonreactive methods and the law. (1975) (17)
- Compensation and Conservation. (1982) (16)
- The effects of experimenter outcome expectancy on latency of word association. (1968) (15)
- Experiment title as a source of sampling bias in commonly used "subject-pool" procedures. (1973) (15)
- In Defense of the Play-Creativity Hypothesis (2016) (14)
- Developmental and individual differences in children's area judgment rules (1988) (14)
- Why We Lie (2006) (14)
- Smiling and Laughter in Infants as a Function of Level of Arousal and Cognitive Evaluation. (1978) (13)
- Goal-directedness and its relation to inhibitory control among toddlers (1997) (13)
- Effects of mental health legislative reform in Ontario. (1987) (12)
- Age as a moderator of the secular trend for grip strength in Canada and the United States (2015) (11)
- THE INHERITANCE OF COGNITIVE SKILLS: DOES GENOMIC IMPRINTING PLAY A ROLE? (2006) (10)
- Profile of social psychology: A preliminary application of “reference analysis” (1972) (10)
- Using standard situations to measure attention span and persistence in toddler-aged children: some cautions. (1996) (10)
- Marital Dissatisfaction Following the Death of a Child: The Influence of Genetic Factors at Cause in the Death. (1991) (10)
- IN DEFENSE OF DISSONANCE THEORY: REPLY TO CHAPANIS AND CHAPANIS. (1964) (9)
- A study of the development of conservation by a nonverbal method. (1968) (8)
- Testing the hypothesized effect of dysgenic fertility on intelligence with existing reaction time data: A comment on Woodley, te Nijenhuis, and Murphy (2013) (2013) (8)
- By What Process Do Young Children Solve Small Number Conservation Problems (1981) (8)
- Looking ahead to parenthood : nonparents' expectations of themselves and their future children (1991) (7)
- Confessions of a Closet Sociobiologist: Personal Perspectives on the Darwinian Movement in Psychology (2003) (6)
- Symmetry and human spatial cognition: An alternative perspective (2002) (6)
- The Influence of Probabilistic Statements on the Evaluation of the Significance of a DNA Match (2002) (6)
- Pure types are rare: Myths and meanings of madness (1983) (5)
- The Psychological Subject in the Land of Make-Believe. (1970) (5)
- On the effects of mode of presentation on phonetic symbolism (1967) (5)
- The Role of Ethnic Nepotism vs. Economic Pragmatism in Inter-group Conflict: Data on the Yugoslavian Civil War* (2001) (5)
- On the resolution and tolerance of cognitive inconsistency in a natural-occurring event: Attitudes and beliefs following the Senator Edward M. Kennedy incident. (1971) (5)
- Incidence of guilt reactions in children. (1967) (5)
- Context and Number Conservation. (1979) (4)
- Gender differences in inhibitory control as assessed on simple delay tasks in early childhood: A meta-analysis (2021) (4)
- Expectancy effects revisited (1978) (4)
- Area-matching strategies used by young children. (1984) (4)
- The “magic” paradigm revisited (1979) (4)
- Sociobiology and sociopolitics (1995) (3)
- Mediational Performance as Affected by Overt Verbalization During Training and Testing. (1969) (3)
- Effects of hunger on responses to demand characteristics in the measurement of persuasion (1969) (3)
- Creating the mental illness culture: Demographic studies of mental institutionalization in Ontario. (1980) (3)
- Demand Characteristics Associated with Semantic Differential Ratings of Nouns and Verbs (1967) (3)
- IS PSYCHOLOGY UNDERGOING A PARADIGM SHIFT? PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ROLES OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY In: S.A. Peterson & A. Somit (Eds.), Evolutionary approaches in the behavioural sciences: Towards a better understanding of human nature (pp. 203-216). NY: Elsevier. 2001. (2001) (2)
- Note on the Relationship of Self-Esteem to Subject Self-Selection (1964) (2)
- Reply to Cyr and Haley. (1983) (2)
- Perceptions of maternal and paternal solicitude by birth children and adoptees: Relevance for maternal bonding theory (1993) (2)
- Reply to Levonian (1970) (2)
- The mental illness culture is alive and well: A reply to Page. (1986) (2)
- Test anxiety and the effectiveness of social and nonsocial reinforcement in children. (1969) (2)
- A Critical Review of Committed Compliance (2012) (2)
- Diagnosing the Spatial Perspective-Taking Competence of Children: A Training Study Approach. (1994) (2)
- Perception as a possible source of conservation: evidence for length conservation. (1976) (1)
- Teaching an Untidy Topic. (1973) (1)
- Two Tests of Piaget's Equilibration Model: A Replication and an Extension (1979) (1)
- Gender differences in young children’s compliance to maternal directives: A meta-analysis (2020) (1)
- Control by Licensing Over Entry Into the Market (1941) (1)
- Spatial Navigation and Landscape Preferences (2015) (1)
- 1 – Psychological Subject as a Role (1977) (0)
- Rent-seeking at York University (1993) (0)
- On the Existence of a Graphic Stage in Free Classification: Another Look (1984) (0)
- 2 – Role-Related Motives of the Psychological Subject (1977) (0)
- VERBAL HABITS AND DISCRIMINATION LEARNING IN YOUNG CHILDREN (1964) (0)
- Book Review:Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. Audrey Smedley (1994) (0)
- Summary.-It is considered that Levonian's (1970) analysis of deficiencies in control procedures in self-esteem-persuasibility studies is relevant to several but not to the majority of the studies he reviews. (1970) (0)
- Darwinism Applied: Evolutionary Paths to Social Goals. Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence.John H. Beckstrom (1995) (0)
- Generalizing from Laboratory to Life (1981) (0)
- Rejoinders to Falger and Salter (1995) (0)
- Inter-related effects of socioeconomic class and sex of offspring on parental resource investment (1989) (0)
- "Review of Pure types are rare": Comment on book review. (1985) (0)
- Rejoinder to Rushton (1990) (0)
- 6 – Toward a Veridical Psychology (1977) (0)
- 3 – Role-Related Motives and Psychological Data: Involuntary Behavior (1977) (0)
- 5 – Other Mediators of Role-Related Behavior (1977) (0)
- Book Review:The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity. Adam Kuper (1995) (0)
- Mind as modules. (1998) (0)
- Rejoinder to Seifert (1996) (0)
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