William A. Epstein

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William A. Epstein

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PhD Psychology Stanford University
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Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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The Role of Effort in Perceiving Distance (2003) (547)
The illusion of knowing: Failure in the self-assessment of comprehension (1982) (406)
Tool use affects perceived distance, but only when you intend to use it. (2005) (393)
Stability and constancy in visual perception : mechanisms and processes (1977) (352)
Perceiving Distance: A Role of Effort and Intent (2004) (299)
Inexpert calibration of comprehension (1987) (282)
Enhancing Calibration of Comprehension (1987) (275)
Perception of space and motion (1995) (275)
The current status of the size-distance hypotheses. (1961) (232)
The Process of ‘Taking-into-Account’ in Visual Perception (1973) (187)
Calibration of comprehension. (1985) (176)
The status of the minimum principle in the theoretical analysis of visual perception. (1985) (160)
The influence of syntactical structure of learning. (1961) (125)
The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory (1979) (118)
Allocation of attention and the locus of adaptation to displaced vision. (1975) (116)
Priming Spatial Layout of Scenes (1997) (104)
Calibration of Comprehension (1985) (101)
Meaning and familiarity in associative learning. (1960) (101)
Shape constancy: Functional relationships and theoretical formulations. (1963) (97)
Mechanisms of Directed Forgetting (1972) (90)
Varieties of perceptual learning (1967) (89)
Coactivation and comprehension: Contribution of text variables to the illusion of knowing (1984) (83)
Percept—Percept Couplings (1982) (82)
Distances appear different on hills (2005) (82)
Recalibration by Pairing: A Process of Perceptual Learning (1975) (81)
When and how are spatial perceptions scaled? (2010) (74)
Attitudes of judgment and the size-distance invariance hypothesis. (1963) (73)
Perceptual set as an artifact of recency. (1960) (64)
A further study of the influence of syntactical structure on learning. (1962) (62)
Perceived shape at a slant as a function of processing time and processing load. (1977) (59)
EXAMINATION OF GIBSON'S PSYCHOPHYSICAL HYPOTHESIS. (1964) (58)
NONRELATIONAL JUDGEMENT OF SIZE AND DISTANCE. (1965) (54)
Is There Anything out There?: A Study of Distal Attribution in Response to Vibrotactile Stimulation (1986) (52)
Searching for to-be-forgotten material in a directed forgetting task. (1972) (51)
Perceived depth as a function of relative height under three background conditions. (1966) (49)
The last chance: Nuclear proliferation and arms control (1976) (45)
The known-size-apparent-distance hypothesis. (1961) (44)
Size and distance judgments under reduced conditions of viewing (1969) (42)
What are the prospects for a higher-order stimulus theory of perception? (1977) (41)
Poststimulus output specification and differential retrieval from short-term memory. (1969) (38)
The Influence of Assumed Size on Apparent Distance (1963) (38)
The Relationship between Texture Gradient and Perceived Slant-in-Depth: Direct or Mediated? (1981) (38)
Evolutionary theory meets cognitive psychology: A more selective perspective (1998) (37)
Perceptual learning of spatiotemporal events: evidence from an unfamiliar modality. (1989) (37)
The induction of nonveridical slant and the perception of shape. (1962) (37)
RELATIVE SIZE IN ISOLATION AS A STIMULUS FOR RELATIVE PERCEIVED DISTANCE. (1964) (35)
Why States Go—And Don't Go—Nuclear (1977) (34)
Adaptation to uniocular image magnification: modification of the disparity-depth relationship. (1970) (33)
Automatic and attentional components in perception of size-at-a-distance (1986) (33)
Two factors in the perception of velocity at a distance (1978) (32)
Gestalt psychology and the philosophy of mind (1994) (32)
The locus of masking shape-at-a-slant (1978) (31)
Phenomenal Orientation and Perceived Achromatic Color (1961) (31)
Selective search in directed forgetting. (1972) (30)
Facilitation of retrieval resulting from post-input exclusion of part of the input. (1970) (30)
Forget instructions: Effect of selective rehearsal and categorical distinctiveness (1971) (29)
Automatic and attentional components in perception of shape-at-a-slant. (1985) (28)
The Metatheoretical Context (1995) (28)
Recall of word lists following learning of sentences and of anomalous and random strings (1969) (25)
The representational framework in perceptual theory (1993) (25)
Has the time come to rehabilitate Gestalt theory? (1988) (23)
Perception of Relative Velocity: A Revision of the Hypothesis of Relational Determination (1980) (23)
In search of depth (1990) (22)
Internalization: a metaphor we can live without. (2001) (21)
Reply to Hutchison and Loomis (2006) (21)
Adaptation to uniocular image magnification after varying preadaptation activities. (1971) (20)
Perceiving events and objects (2013) (20)
Modification of the disparity-depth relationship as a result of exposure to conflicting cues. (1968) (20)
Retention of adaptation to uniocular image magnification: effect of interpolated activity. (1972) (18)
Some conditions of the influence of syntactical structure on learning: Grammatical transformation, learning instructions, and “chunking” (1967) (18)
Does retinal size have a unique correlate in perceived size? (1969) (18)
The detection of length and orientation changes in dynamic vibrotactile patterns (1986) (18)
The United Nations and International Security (1982) (17)
Interaction of stimulus and contextual information during reading: Identifying words within sentences (1985) (17)
Nuclear-Free Zones (1975) (16)
The effect of stimulus meaningfulness and response meaningfulness in the absence of response learning (1962) (16)
Attitude of judgment and reaction time in estimation of size at a distance (1975) (15)
Adaptation to uniocular image magnification: Is the underlying shift proprioceptive? (1972) (15)
The effect of level of depth processing and degree of informational discrepancy on adaptation to uniocular image magnification. (1974) (15)
An asymmetry in transmodal perceptual learning (1990) (15)
Temporal Schemata in Syntactically Structured Material (1963) (13)
Functional equivalence of masking and cue reduction in perception of shape at a slant (1978) (13)
Automatic and attentional components in perception of shape-at-a-slant (1985) (12)
Amodal Information and Transmodal Perception (1985) (12)
Perceived angle of oscillatory motion (1968) (12)
The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1975) (11)
Modification of depth judgment following exposures to magnification of uniocular image: Are changes in perceived absolute distance and registered direction of gaze involved? (1972) (11)
Recency as a function of perceptual oscillation. (1961) (11)
The interaction of syntactical structure and learning instructions (1965) (11)
Perception of slant-in-depth is automatic (1989) (10)
The time it takes to make veridical size and distance judgments (1973) (10)
Contrasting conceptions of perception and action. (1986) (10)
Effectiveness of serial position and preceding-item cues in serial learning (1969) (10)
Attentional demands of processing shape in three-dimensional space: evidence from visual search and precuing paradigms. (1992) (10)
SOME CONDITIONS OF THE EFFECT OF RELATIVE SIZE ON PERCEIVED RELATIVE DISTANCE. (1965) (9)
Judgment of Slant in Response to an Isolated Gradient of Stimulation (1963) (9)
Effect of forget instructions with and without the conditions for selective search* (1973) (8)
Foundations of Visual Perception (2003) (7)
Free recall of paired associates as a function of meaningfulness (1964) (7)
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE GENESIS OF VISUAL SPACE PERCEPTION. (1964) (7)
The effect of stimulus and response meaningfulness when response availability is equated (1963) (6)
PERCEPTUAL INVARIANCE IN THE KINETIC DEPTH-EFFECT. (1965) (6)
New directions in disarmament (1981) (6)
Aftereffect of inspection of a perspectival stimulus for slant depth: A new normalization effect (1974) (6)
David Brewster’s observations on perception when touch and vision conflict: An historical note (1971) (6)
A Final Reply to Hutchison and Loomis (2006) (6)
Apparent Shape of a Meaningful Representational Form (1962) (6)
A test of two interpretations of the apparent size effects in a distorted room. (1962) (6)
The Classical Tradition of Dialectics and American Legal Education. (1981) (5)
Backward association as a function as meaningfulness. (1962) (5)
Continuous optical transformations do not elicit unique perceptual descriptions (1986) (5)
Nuclear proliferation: The failure of the review conference (1975) (5)
Time to bury ‘deterrence’ (1977) (4)
RETENTION OF SENTENCES, ANOMALOUS SEQUENCES, AND RANDOM SEQUENCES (1972) (4)
What Is to Be Done (1992) (4)
Direct perception or mediated perception: a comparison of rival viewpoints (1980) (4)
Failure at the NPT review conference (1975) (3)
Effective Difference in Influence of Relative Size on Perceived Relative Distance (1964) (3)
UN special session on disarmament: How much progress? (1978) (3)
Perceived Distance in Imagined Space (1967) (3)
A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa? (2020) (2)
Psychology in Progress (1971) (2)
The Visual Perception of 3-Dimensional Structure from Motion (2005) (2)
The Public Purpose Limitation on the Power of Eminent Domain: A Constitutional Liberty under Attack (1984) (2)
The Inexorable Rise of Military Expenditures: Despite detente, the budgets always go up (1975) (2)
New stance tarnishes Canada's reputation (1987) (2)
Nuclear Security for the Korean Peninsula (1992) (2)
Judge David Jenkins and the great civil war (1982) (2)
A Critical Time for Nuclear Nonproliferation (1985) (2)
CTB: Next Steps (1996) (2)
The prevention of nuclear war : a United Nations perspective (1985) (2)
Voting by abstention (1999) (2)
Is the discrimination of motion-path length unique? (1977) (2)
Epilogue: Advances and open questions (2012) (2)
Evidence for incremental processes in associative learning. (1961) (1)
New hope for a comprehensive test ban (1986) (1)
Conference a qualified success (1990) (1)
The effect of directed forgetting on the time to remember (1975) (1)
A new design for nuclear disarmament : Pugwash Symposium, Kyoto, Japan (1977) (1)
The United Nations and nuclear disarmament : achievements on the way to a nuclear-weapon-free-world : information guide for photo exhibition (1997) (1)
Issues of principle and expediency in the controversy over prohibitions to ecclesiastical courts in England (1980) (1)
The historical foundation of the methodology of American legal education (1981) (1)
The frequency of grammatical classes in the production of verbal strings under two response sets (1965) (1)
Inexpert Calibration of Comprehension. Program Report 86-3. (1986) (1)
Perceptual learning resulting from exposure to a stimulus-invariant. (1967) (1)
The United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament A Reassessment (1983) (0)
Disarmament role for the United Nations (1985) (0)
Psychology in progress / William Epstein, Franklin Shontz (1971) (0)
Non-nuclear states move to end testing (1989) (0)
Perlera-Escobar v. Executive Office For Immigration: Political Asylum and the Question of Neurtrality (1992) (0)
The committee for examinations and parliamentary justice, 1642–1647 (1986) (0)
4 Visual Perception (2012) (0)
The freeze: a hotissueat the United Nations (1982) (0)
Letter from William Epstein to Joshua Lederberg (2000) (0)
Calculating weapons reductions (1985) (0)
U.N. presses superpowers on test ban (1988) (0)
The Sensoty Core and the Medleval (2008) (0)
Construction of spatial relations within natural scenes over time (1996) (0)
Perceptual-learning of spatiotemporal events in an unfamiliar modality (1988) (0)
Analysis of the existing non-proliferation regime (1995) (0)
The Nuclear Testing Threat (1990) (0)
In the Beginning (1999) (0)
The Outlook for Disarmament (2020) (0)
Helmholtz: The original cognitive scientist. (1991) (0)
Seeing into the Future: An interaction between perception and action (2010) (0)
The Point Count Plan for Nuclear Arms Reduction (1985) (0)
We Can Avert a Nuclear War (1983) (0)
8. Nuclear Terrorism and Nuclear War (1979) (0)
Constraining the use of constraints (1999) (0)
5 – Disarmament and International Security—Some New Approaches (1981) (0)
Nuclear testing: illusion and reality (1987) (0)
The Linkage Between a Nuclear Test Ban and Nuclear Non-Proliferation (1990) (0)
Theory and Evaluative Reviews The representational framework in perceptual theory (1993) (0)
Perception and Inference@@@Vision: Variations on Some Berkeleian Themes (1996) (0)
Arguing for Frege's Fundamental Principle Selective Perspective (1998) (0)
U.N. disarmament campaign (1984) (0)
REVOLT of the NON-ALIGNED (1996) (0)
The prevention of nuclear war (1984) (0)
The role of effort and intention in distance perception (2010) (0)
William Epstein, October 22-25, 1990 (2013) (0)
Nuclear powers take a hard line (1997) (0)

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