Christopher J Skinner 1963-1997

Research Overview for Christopher J. Hillar

I work on a wide range of problems that arise from other areas of mathematics and the physical sciences. Currently, I am focused on using mathematical and computational tools to solve basic problems in theoretical neuroscience, and in this regard, I have begun collaborations with scientists at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and mathematicians at U.C. Berkeley. I am also interes...

Boyce , Christopher J . and Wood , Alex M . and Ferguson

Loss aversion is considered a general pervasive bias occurring regardless of context or person making the decision. We hypothesized that conscientiousness would predict an aversion to losses in the financial domain. We index loss aversion by the relative impact of income losses and gains on life satisfaction. In a representative German sample (N = 105,558: replicated in a British sample, N = 33...

Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)

In 1942, the United States Supreme Court Case of Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled that states could not legally sterilize those inmates of prisons deemed habitual criminals. Skinner v. Oklahoma was about the case of Jack Skinner, an inmate of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, who was subject to sterilization [3] under the Oklahoma Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935. The ...

Barnard, Christopher J. and Behnke, Jerzy M. and Gage, Alexander R. and Brown, Hazel and Smithurst, Peter R. (1997) Modulation of behaviour and testosterone concentration in immunodepressed male

Response to Kreuter and Skinner.

I want to commend Matt Kreuter and Celette appropriately labeled ‘targeted’ interventions. Unfortunately, although we would now never call Skinner for their Editorial entitled ‘Tailoring: Clear Horizons a tailored program, in the evolution what’s in a name?’ (Kreuter and Skinner, 2000). of terminology, the titles of our papers stand. I could not agree more with their argument that I commend the...