John Richard Eiser

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Uncertain Judgements: Eliciting Experts' Probabilities (2006) (1326)
Risk interpretation and action: A conceptual framework for responses to natural hazards (2012) (456)
Trust, Perceived Risk, and Attitudes Toward Food Technologies (2002) (322)
Attitude formation through exploration: valence asymmetries. (2004) (299)
Understanding 'local' opposition to wind development in the UK: How big is a backyard? (2010) (287)
Identifying predictors of attitudes towards local onshore wind development with reference to an English case study (2009) (196)
Quality of life in children newly diagnosed with cancer and their mothers (2005) (190)
Categorization and social judgement (1972) (175)
Social Psychology: Attitudes, Cognition and Social Behaviour (1986) (168)
Social psychology and behavioral medicine (1982) (164)
Differences in relapse precipitants and coping behaviour between alcohol relapsers and survivors. (1979) (148)
Randomized controlled trial of a midwife-delivered brief smoking cessation intervention in pregnancy. (2001) (148)
Attitudes, Chaos and the Connectionist Mind (1994) (126)
Optimism, Pessimism, and the Direction of Self–Other Comparisons (2001) (117)
Adolescent health behaviour and similarity-attraction: friends share smoking habits (really), but much else besides. (1991) (112)
Sexual Relationships on Holiday: A Case of Situational Disinhibition? (1995) (109)
Enhancement of Contrast in the Absolute Judgment of Attitude Statements. (1971) (89)
Young children's understanding of smoking. (1986) (88)
Language attitudes (2015) (83)
Adolescent smoking: attitudes, norms and parental influence. (1989) (83)
Research in psychology and medicine (1979) (80)
Predictors of psychological well-being in types 1 and 2 diabetes (2001) (77)
“Trust me, I'm a Scientist (Not a Developer)”: Perceived Expertise and Motives as Predictors of Trust in Assessment of Risk from Contaminated Land (2009) (77)
Towards a typology of relapse: a preliminary report. (1977) (77)
Connectionist Simulation of Attitude Learning: Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Positive and Negative Evaluations (2003) (77)
Marginal Trust in Risk Managers: Building and Losing Trust Following Decisions Under Uncertainty (2006) (75)
Smoking: The Social Learning of an Addiction (1985) (75)
COMPARATIVE JUDGMENTS AND PREFERENCES : THE INFLUENCE OF THE NUMBER OF RESPONSE ALTERNATIVES (1987) (75)
Parenting the premature infant: balancing vulnerability and quality of life. (2005) (73)
Attitude generalization: Similarity, valence, and extremity (2007) (69)
Diet, smoking and exercise: interrelationships between adolescent health behaviours. (1997) (63)
Adjustment to chronic disease in relation to age and gender: mothers' and fathers' reports of their childrens' behavior. (1992) (63)
Dimensional salience: judgment and attitudes (1984) (62)
NUCLEAR ATTITUDES BEFORE AND AFTER CHERNOBYL : CHANGE AND JUDGMENT (1989) (62)
Valence, comparison focus and self-positivity biases: does it matter whether people judge positive or negative traits? (2005) (61)
Belief and Values in the Nuclear Debate1 (1979) (60)
Attitudes toward Nuclear Energy (1986) (58)
Feasibility of targeted early detection for melanoma: a population-based screening study (2000) (54)
Health locus of control and health beliefs in relation to adolescent smoking. (1989) (53)
The effect of situational meaning on the behaviour of subjects in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game. (1974) (53)
Nuclear attitudes after chernobyl: a cross-national study (1990) (51)
Communication and interpretation of risk. (1998) (51)
Illusory correlation in the perception of group attitudes (1985) (50)
Risk perception and trust in the context of urban brownfields (2007) (49)
Participation in Cervical Screening as a Function of Perceived Risk, Barriers and need for Cognitive Closure (2002) (49)
Skin cancer: Assessing perceived risk and behavioural attitudes (1993) (48)
What is peer group influence (1985) (48)
When is enough, enough? Identifying predictors of capacity estimates for onshore wind-power development in a region of the UK (2011) (47)
Parents' attributions about childhood cancer: implications for relationships with medical staff. (1995) (46)
Predicting smokers’ non-compliance with smoking restrictions in public places (2009) (46)
GENERALIZING THE ILLUSORY CORRELATION EFFECT (1986) (45)
Evaluative consistency and social judgment. (1974) (45)
The measurement of self-esteem: practical and theoretical considerations (1995) (44)
Predicting Greek adolescents' intentions to smoke: a focus on normative processes. (2009) (43)
Characterising the Perceived Risks and Benefits of Some Health Issues (1984) (42)
Negativity and descriptive extremity in impression formation (1980) (42)
Attitudinal and social factors in adolescent smoking: In search of peer group influence. (1984) (42)
Children's knowledge of health and illness: implications for health education. (1983) (42)
Surviving Childhood Cancer: Quality of Life and Parental Regulatory Focus (2004) (38)
Construction of a Nuclear Power Station in One's Locality: Attitudes and Salience (1986) (35)
The emergence during adolescence of gender differences in symptom reporting (1995) (32)
Dependence, relapse and extinction: a theoretical critique and a behavioral examination. (1979) (32)
Is targeted early detection for melanoma feasible? Self assessments of risk and attitudes to screening (2000) (32)
Risk Perceptions and Trust Following the 2010 and 2011 Icelandic Volcanic Ash Crises (2015) (31)
The expression of attitude (1987) (31)
Nuclear neighbourhoods : community responses to reactor siting (1995) (30)
Attitudes and decisions (2015) (30)
Accentuation theory, polarization and the judgment of attitude statements (1984) (29)
Categorization and congruity in attitudinal judgment. (1975) (29)
The personal characteristics and life-style of the young drinker: the results of a survey of British adolescents. (1985) (29)
Out in the midday Sun: Risk behaviour and optimistic beliefs among residents and visitors on tenerife (1999) (28)
Cognitive social psychology : a guidebook to theory and research (1980) (28)
Screening for diabetic retinopathy is well received by patients and may improve self‐management intentions (2001) (27)
A trial of health education aimed to reduce cigarette smoking among pregnant women. (1992) (27)
Scientists’ views about lay perceptions of volcanic hazard and risk (2014) (26)
Smokers’ compliance with smoke-free policies, and non-smokers’ assertiveness for smoke-free air in the workplace: a study from the Balkans (2012) (26)
Mothers’ ratings of quality of life in childhood cancer: Initial optimism predicts improvement over time (2007) (26)
ATTITUDES AND THE USE OF EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE: A TWO-WAY PROCESS (1975) (25)
Predicting health-related intentions from attitudes and normative beliefs: the role of health locus of control. (1986) (24)
Skin cancer attitudes: a cross-national comparison. (1995) (23)
Social cognitive predictors of smoking cessation intentions among smoker employees: the roles of anticipated regret and social norms. (2012) (23)
Accentuation and Perspective in Attitudinal Judgment (1982) (23)
Can you please put it out? Predicting non-smokers' assertiveness intentions at work (2010) (22)
Categorization, cognitive consistency and the concept of dimensional salience (1971) (22)
A strategy for counselling pregnant smokers (1981) (22)
Assessing the impact of framing on the comparative favourability of nuclear power as an electricity generating option in the UK (2012) (22)
Actors' and Observers' attributions, self‐serving bias and positivity bias (1983) (21)
The focus effect and self-positivity in ratings of self-other similarity and difference. (2006) (21)
The addict's perceptions of their own drug-taking: implications for the treatment of drug dependence. (1982) (21)
Drug education in schools (1988) (20)
Adolescents' support for smoke-free public settings: the roles of social norms and beliefs about exposure to secondhand smoke. (2011) (20)
Smokers' and Non-Smokers' Estimates of Their Personal Risk of Cancer and of the Incremental Risk Attributable to Cigarette Smoking1 (1995) (19)
Nutrition education in the National Curriculum (1998) (18)
Cognitive Social Psychology (1986) (18)
Taking the dread out of radiation? Consequences of and arguments over the inclusion of radiation from nuclear power production in the category of the natural (1993) (18)
Social comparisons and quality of life among survivors of childhood cancer and their mothers (2000) (18)
Attitudinal effects of the use of evaluatively biased language (1979) (17)
Beliefs About the Relationship Between Smoking and Causes of Death (1983) (17)
Effects of information about specific nutrient content on ratings of “Goodness” and “Pleasantness” of common foods (1984) (17)
Discipline strategies and parental perceptions of preschool children with asthma. (1991) (16)
Health education needs of primigravidae. (1985) (16)
Building and losing trust A Psychological Approach to Understanding how Trust is Built and Lost in the Context of Risk (2005) (16)
Smoking, seat-belt use and perception of health risks. (1983) (16)
How malleable is comparative self‐positivity? The effects of manipulating judgemental focus and accessibility (2007) (15)
Smoking cessation and smokers' perceptions of their addiction (1986) (15)
Local Wind or Russian Gas? Contextual Influences on Polish Attitudes to Wind Energy Developments (2010) (15)
Judgement of Attitude Statements as a Function of Judges' Attitudes and the Judgemental Dimension (1973) (15)
Public attitudes to nuclear energy (1984) (14)
Expectancy confirmation in attitude learning: A connectionist account (2008) (14)
MUDDY WATERS AND HEAVY METAL: TIME AND ATTITUDES GUIDE JUDGEMENTS OF POLLUTION (1998) (14)
Boundaries of Self-Positivity: The Effect of Comparison Focus in Self—Friend Comparisons (2009) (14)
Educational priorities in food technology: a national survey of teachers' views (1998) (14)
Risk perception at a persistently active volcano: warnings and trust at Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico, 2012–2014 (2018) (13)
Awareness of Bad News, Environmental Attitudes, and Subjective Estimates of Coastal Pollution (1994) (13)
Attitudes in a social context (1984) (13)
Attitudes to privatization of UK public utilities: Anticipating industrial practice and environmental effects (1996) (13)
Partisan language, immediacy, and attitude change (1977) (13)
Coping and confidence among parents of children with diabetes. (1993) (13)
Risk judgements reflect belief strength, not bias (1994) (13)
The persuasiveness of labels: Attitude change produced through definition of the attitude continuum (1974) (13)
What's the beach like? Context effects in judgements of environmental quality (1993) (12)
Expert opinion and probabilistic volcanic risk assessment (2017) (12)
"Sick" or "hooked": smokers' perceptions of their addiction. (1986) (12)
Judgmental perspective and value connotations of response scale labels. (1978) (12)
How adolescents compare AIDS with other diseases: implications for prevention. (1990) (11)
Attitudes and decision (1988) (11)
Health behavior as goal-directed action (1988) (11)
The Smoking Behaviors of Adolescents and Their Friends: Do Parents Matter? (2004) (11)
The Representation of Mortality Statistics and the Perceived Importance of Causes of Death (1982) (11)
Attitudes, decisions and perceptions of risk: A social psychological analysis (2001) (11)
Smoke-free policies and non-smokers’ reactions to SHS exposure in small and medium enterprises (2013) (10)
Developmental changes in analogies used to describe parts of the body: implications for communicating with sick children. (1986) (10)
Scripts in children’s reports of medical events (1989) (10)
Accidents, Disease, and the Greenhouse Effect: Effects of Response Categories on Estimates of Risk (1991) (10)
AFFIRMATION AND DENIAL IN EVALUATIVE DESCRIPTIONS (1973) (10)
Adolescents' perceptions of the costs and benefits of food additives and their presence in different foods (2002) (10)
Smoking, addiction and decision‐making (1983) (9)
Scene schemata and scripts in children's understanding of hospital. (1990) (9)
Reconnecting the individual and the social in health psychology (1996) (9)
How Approach and Avoidance Decisions Influence Attitude Formation and Change (2008) (9)
Adolescent beliefs about AIDS prevention (1989) (9)
PREDICTING ATTITUDES TO OIL AND TO NUCLEAR-ENERGY (1988) (9)
Adolescents' arguments for and against smoking. (1983) (9)
Attitude Formation Through Exploration (2014) (9)
Categorization, attitude and memory for the source of attitude statements (1979) (8)
Attitude learning through exploration: Advice and strategy appraisals (2007) (8)
Acquisition of information in dyadic interaction. (1972) (8)
Reconciling nuclear risk: the impact of the Fukushima accident on comparative preferences for nuclear power in U.K. electricity generation (2016) (8)
NUCLEAR WASTE: FACTS, FEARS, AND ATTITUDES (1987) (8)
Comprehension of metaphorical explanations of illness (1986) (8)
Children's awareness of additives in food (1996) (8)
Global Changes and Local Accidents: Consistency in Attributions for Environmental Effects1 (1995) (7)
What Children's Stories Tell Us about Their Understanding of Illness. (1990) (7)
Interpreting the Risks of Diabetic Renal Disease: Perspectives of those Most at Risk (2002) (7)
New Directions in Attribution Research . Vol. 1. Edited by J. H. Harvey, W. J. Ickes and R. F. Kidd, Hilldale, N. J.: Erlbaum, 1976. Pp. 467. Price £14.10. (1978) (7)
Interpretations of Risk and Expectations of Change among Individuals with Types 1 and 2 Diabetes (2002) (7)
Prediction of environmental change: Wish‐fulfillment revisited (1975) (7)
Is the recognition of attitude statements affected by one's own opinion? (1978) (7)
Attitude Strength and Perceived Prevalence of Attitude Positions (1989) (7)
Preference for accuracy and posititvity in the description of oneself by another (1972) (6)
The influence of question framing on symptom report and perceived health status (2000) (6)
Reactions to drug education: a comparison of two videos produced for schools. (1988) (6)
Prejudiced learning: a connectionist account. (2009) (6)
The Role of Monitoring in Determining Quality of Life Following Treatment for A Bone Tumor (1997) (6)
The Elicitation of Probabilities (2006) (6)
The effects of personal and family hospital experience on children's health beliefs, concerns and behaviour (1990) (6)
Comment on Ward's "Attitude and involvement in the absolute judgment of attitude statements." (1971) (5)
Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research: The Accentuation Principle in Social Judgment: A Connectionist Reappraisal (2003) (5)
Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Alternatives as Portrayed in UK Local Press Coverage (1986) (5)
Sources of evaluation of nuclear and renewable energy contained in the local press (1987) (5)
Social psychology: Attitudes and behaviour (1986) (5)
Evaluation of Choice-Dilemma Alternatives: Utility, Morality and Social Judgement (1976) (5)
Acquisition of information in children's bargaining. (1976) (4)
Attitudes as Attractors: More Than a Metaphor? (1997) (4)
Fundamentals of Probability and Judgement (2006) (4)
The relationship between attitudes and behaviour (2015) (4)
Public perception of risk 1 PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF RISK (2004) (4)
Attitudes, attributions, and persuasion: how young people's ideas about drugs relate to their preferences for different strategies of prevention. (1988) (3)
Environmental Threats: Perception, Analysis and Management, J. Brown (Ed.). Bellhaven Press in association with the ESRC, Wellington (1989) (1990) (3)
Associations between authoritative parenting and the sun exposure and sun protective behaviours of adolescents and their friends (2011) (3)
Linguistic social influence: Attitude change produced by feedback concerning others' use of evaluative language (1978) (3)
Learning accountability. (1988) (3)
Social psychology: Aims and approaches (1986) (3)
Attributions of Intention to a Simulated Partner in a Mixed‐motive Game (1973) (3)
Are personality questionnaires answered mindlessly? (1987) (3)
Drug attitudes and discrimination between drugs among a group of English schoolchildren. (1980) (3)
Health behaviour and attitudes to publicity campaigns for health promotion (1989) (3)
Implementing a ‘life-skills’ approach to drug education: a preliminary evaluation (1987) (3)
Behavioural Medicine: What Kind of Medicine? What Kind of Behaviour? (1983) (3)
A simple, bias‐free method for scoring attitude scale responses (1980) (2)
Teachers’ evaluations of a ‘life‐skills’ approach to drugs education (1988) (2)
Published Examples of the Formal Elicitation of Expert Opinion (2006) (2)
The Sampling of Social Attitudes: A Comment on Eysenck's ‘Social Attitudes and Social Class’ (1972) (2)
Mothers' experiences on the postnatal ward. (1985) (2)
The Evaluation of ‘Double Take’: a school‐based drugs education package (1988) (2)
Inflationary expectations and policy preferences (1988) (2)
Favouritism as a function of assumed similarity and anticipated interaction (1972) (2)
Patients' experiences of the diabetes annual review (2000) (2)
Categorization and interclass assimilation in social judgement (1991) (2)
Guidance on Best Practice (2006) (2)
The Psychology of Judgement Under Uncertainty (2006) (2)
Midwife Attitudes and Advice to Pregnant Smokers (1999) (2)
Local residents' attributions for nuclear decisions (1989) (2)
Is there a substitute for Structured Interview assessments of type A behaviour? (1985) (2)
Addiction as a Dynamic Process (1997) (2)
Of matters of fact and psychological discourse (1995) (1)
Types 1 and 2 Diabetes Interpretations of Risk and Expectations of Change among Individuals with (2002) (1)
Attribution of traits to self and others: Situationality vs. Uncertainty (1975) (1)
Accentuation theory and the judgment of attitudes: exploring possible limiting conditions (1983) (1)
The Elicitation Context (2006) (1)
Social psychology: Social identity and intergroup processes (1986) (1)
ATTITUDES AND THE SELF AS SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS (1999) (1)
Social psychology: Attribution (1986) (1)
Statistics in Practice (1984) (1)
Nuclear Energy and its alternatives: attitudes and beliefs in South West England (1983) (1)
Research Note: Adolescents' perceptions of food chemical risks (1998) (1)
11. A history of social judgment research (2010) (1)
Communication accuracy as a function of information about the communicator (1973) (1)
Scientists' views about lay perceptions of volcanic risk (2014) (1)
Social psychology: Attitudes, attraction and influence (1986) (1)
The dynamical hypothesis in social cognition (1998) (1)
Evaluation of Primary Prevention of Skin Cancer: A UK Perspective (2000) (1)
"Illusory correlation in the perception of group attitudes": Corrections to Spears et al (1985) (1)
Nuclear energy, risk perception and attitudes (2015) (1)
Children's Concepts of a Fair Exchange* (1976) (1)
Smoking and Health: What Can Social Psychology Contribute? (1980) (1)
Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting, R.E. Dunlap, M.E. Kraft, E.A. Rosa (Eds.). Duke University Press, London (1993), ISBN: 0 8223 1373 1 (1994) (0)
Developing a Theory of Mind: A Connectionist Investigation (2020) (0)
Attitude and the pyschology of judgment (1987) (0)
Health attitudes, attributions and addiction (2015) (0)
Attitude generalization : Similarity , valence , and extremity q (2007) (0)
Eliciting Distributions – Uncertainty and Imprecision (2006) (0)
Empiricism and Social Reality: Can Cognitive Science Be Socialized? (1999) (0)
Attitude as a social product (1987) (0)
Eliciting Distributions – General (2006) (0)
Children's schematic representations of ailments (1992) (0)
Social judgment in the field: attitudes toward nuclear energy (1985) (0)
The judgmental approach. Foreword to the proceedings of the Konstanz symposium on social judgment (1971) (0)
Attitude as the meaning of expressive behavior (1987) (0)
Drug Education in Schools: An Evaluation of the “Double Take” Video Package (1988) (0)
The relativity of consistency (1987) (0)
A survey of the extent of use of “Double Take” in schools and teachers’ evaluations of the package (1988) (0)
Book Review: Social and Biological Roles of Language: The Psychology of Justification (1987) (0)
Social psychology: Motivation, incentive and dissonance (1986) (0)
Areas for Research (2006) (0)
Human Response To Crowding Edited by A. Baum and Y. M. Epstein. Hillside N. J: Erlbaum, 1978. xiv+418 pp. £14.00. (1979) (0)
Eliciting and Fitting a Parametric Distribution (2006) (0)
Previous research on drug abuse and its prevention among school children (1988) (0)
Learning theory and the acquisition of attitudinal responses (1987) (0)
Social psychology: Social judgement (1986) (0)
Analysis and synthesis: the status of “Double Take” in the school curriculum (1988) (0)
Decisions, heuristics and biases (2015) (0)
Putting Humpty together again: attitude organization from a connectionist perspective (2004) (0)
Values, salience and accountability (1987) (0)
Behavior in the Complex Environment (Book) (1979) (0)
Inferences of a Speaker's Personality and Health Behaviour from Accented Speech (1983) (0)
Local opposition to the construction of a nuclear power station: risk and rationality (1988) (0)
An experimental investigation of pupils’ responses to “Minder” and “Thinking Twice” (1988) (0)
Saillantie van dimensies, beoordeling en attitudes (1985) (0)
Social psychology: References (1986) (0)
Framing the nuclear debate: Could climate change be the key to a sustainable energy future? (2009) (0)
Justice, roles and obligations (1986) (0)
Accentuation and salience in attitudinal judgment (1985) (0)
Attitude-relevant behavior and the ‘three-component’ view (1987) (0)
Communication and Child Health (1988) (0)
Social psychology: Preface (1986) (0)
CHILDREN'S SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF AILMENTS RESUMEN (2019) (0)
Wrong brand, poor advertisement. (1983) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Judgment and learning (1987) (0)
Accountability, judgment and consistency (1987) (0)
Self-Descriptions-Scale (2017) (0)
Decisions and representations (1986) (0)
Shared attitudes and social representations (1987) (0)
Achievements and prospects (1986) (0)
Comprar Attitudes, Chaos and the Connectionist Mind | J. Richard Eiser | 9780631191315 | Wiley (2008) (0)
Adolescents' attributions about cigarette smoking (1995) (0)
An observation and evaluation of a course based on “Minder” (1988) (0)
Medical communication and judgment (2015) (0)
The impact of “Double Take” as a function of region and extent of use (1988) (0)
Attitudes and the words we use (2014) (0)
A second evaluation of “Double Take” in a local school (1988) (0)
A SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT (1998) (0)

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