David Howard Silvera
Associate Professor. B.S. Mathematics (University of California at Irvine), M.B.A. (University of California at Irvine), Ph.D. (University of Texas)

Research interests
Self-Attribution; self-esteem; heuristics and biases

Recent publications
Silvera, D. H., Laeng, B., and Dahl, T.I. (in press). Training of psychology doctoral students in the United States. European Psychologist.

Silvera, D. H., Neilands, T.B., and Perry, J.A. (in press). A Norwegian translation of the Self-Liking and Competence Scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Silvera, D. H., Martinussen, M., and Dahl, T.I. (in press). The Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale, a self-report measure of social intelligence. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Perry, J.A., Silvera, D. H., Rosenvinge, J.H., Neilands, T., and Holte, A. (in press). Seasonal eating patterns in Norway: A normal population study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Krull, D.S., Seger, C., and Silvera, D. H. (in press). On the profits and perils of guessing right: Effects of situational expectations for emotions on discounting. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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

Rosenvinge, J.H., Perry, J.A., Bjørgum, L., Bergersen, T.D., Silvera, and Holte, A. (in press). 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.

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

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

Blumberg, S.J., and Silvera, D.H. (1998). An individual differences perspective on 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.

E-mail: davids@psyk.uit.no

Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway