Kontor/besøk
Huginbakken 32 (Teorifagbygget, Hus 5), kontor 5652

Biografiske data
Professor. B.S. Mathematics (University of California at Irvine), M.B.A. (University of California at Irvine), Ph.D. (University of Texas)

Verv
Nestleder IPS

Forskningsinteresser
Consumer Judgments and Decision-Making, Attributions, The Self

Publikasjoner
Silvera, D. H., Kardes, F. R., Harvey, N., Cronley, M. L., & Houghton, D. C. (in press). Contextual Influences on Omission Neglect in the Fault Tree Paradigm. Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Silvera, D. H., & Austad, B. (in press). Factors predicting the effectiveness of celebrity endorsement advertisements. European Journal of Marketing.

Silvera, D. H., and Laufer, D. (accepted). Recent Developments in Attribution Research and their Implications for Consumer Judgments and Behavior. In F. R. Kardes, P. M. Herr, and J. Nantel (Eds.) (forthcoming), Applying social cognition to consumer-focused strategy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kropp, F., Lavack, A. M., & Silvera, D. H. (in press). Consumer susceptibility to interpersonal influence: A cross-cultural examination of its relationships with values and collective self-esteem. International Marketing Review.

Silvera, D. H., & Seger, C. (in press). Feeling good about ourselves: An examination of idiographic self-evaluations and their relation to self-esteem in the United States and Norway. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Gabler, J. R., Lavack, A. M.., Silvera, D. H., & Kropp, F. (in press). Predicting Condom Use and Purchase Intentions: The Role of Attitudes and Self-Efficacy. Health Marketing Quarterly.

Kropp, F., Lavack, A. M., Silvera, D. H., & Gabler, J. (in press). University Alcohol Consumption: A Cross-Cultural Study of Attitudes, Values, Identity, and Consumer Influence. Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing.

Silvera, D. H. & Neilands, T. B. (2004). Interpreting the uninterpretable: The effect of self-esteem on the interpretation of meaningless feedback. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 45 (1), 61-66.

Sørum, K. A., Grape, K. M., & Silvera, D. (2003). Do dispositional attributions regarding peer endorsers influence product evaluations? Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 44, 39-46.

Silvera, D. H., Laeng, B., & Dahl, T. I. (2003). The training of doctoral students of psychology in the United States. European Psychologist, 8, 48-53.

Silvera, D. H., Josephs, R. A., and Giesler, R. B. (2002). Bigger is better: The influence of physical size on aesthetic preference judgments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15, 189-202.

Silvera, D. H., Krull, D. S., & Sassler, M. A. (2002). Typhoid Pollyanna: The effect of category valence on the processing speeds of positive and negative category members. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 14, 227-236.

Perry, J. A., Silvera, D. H, Rosenvinge, J., & Holte, A. (2002). Are oral, obsessive, and hysterical personality traits related to disturbed eating patterns? A general population study of 6313 males and females. Journal of Personality Assessment, 78, 405-416.

Silvera, D.H., Josephs, R.A., and Giesler, R.B. (2001). The proportion heuristic: Problem set size as a basis for performance judgments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 14, 207-221.

Krull, D. S., Seger, C., & Silvera, D. H. (2001). On the profits and perils of guessing right: Effects of situational expectations for emotions on discounting. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 413-418.

Silvera, D. H., Neilands, T. B., & Perry, J. A. (2001). A Norwegian translation of the Self-Liking and Competence Scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42, 417-427.

Silvera, D. H., Martinussen, M., & Dahl, T. I. (2001). The Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale, a self-report measure of social intelligence. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42, 313-320.

Perry, J. A., Silvera, D. H., Rosenvinge, J. H., Neilands, T., & Holte, A. (2001). Seasonal eating patterns in Norway: A normal population study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42, 307-312.

Rosenvinge, J. H., Perry, J. A., Bjørgum, L., Bergersen, T. D., Silvera, D. H., & Holte, A. (2001). A new instrument measuring bulimia nervosa and disturbed eating patterns: Development and validation of a 5-item scale (EDS-5). European Journal of Eating Disorders, 9, 123-132.

Silvera, D. H. (2000). The effects of cognitive load on strategic self-handicapping. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 65-72.

Silvera, D. H., Moe, S-K., and Iversen, P. (2000). The association between implicit theories of personality and the attributional process. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 41, 107-111.

Blumberg, S.J., and Silvera, D.H. (1998). Attributional complexity and cognitive development: A look at the motivational and cognitive requirements for attribution. Social Cognition, 16, 253-266.

Gill, M. J., Swann, William, B., Jr., & Silvera, D. H. (1998). On the genesis of confidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1101-1114.

Silvera, D. H., Bergersen, T. D., Bjørgum, L., Perry, J. A., Rosenvinge, J. H., & Holte, A. (1998). Analyzing the relation between self-esteem and eating disorders: Differential effects of Self-Liking and Self-Competence. Eating and Weight Disorders: Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 3, 95-99.

Johansen, S. N., Jacobsen, H., Rosenvinge, J. H., Perry, J. A., & Silvera, D. H. (1998). Eating pattern and self-esteem in overweight women. Eating and Weight Disorders: Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 3, 33-36.

Josephs, R.A., Silvera, D.H., & Giesler, R.B. (1996). The learning curve as a metacognitive tool. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 510-524.

Gilbert, D.T., and Silvera, D.H. (1996). Overhelping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 678-690.

Swann, W.B., Jr., Silvera, D.H., & Proske, C.U. (1995). On "Knowing your partner": Dangerous illusions in the age of AIDS? Personal Relationships, 2, 173-186.

Josephs, R.A., Giesler, R.B., & Silvera, D.H. (1994). Judgment by quantity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 21-32.