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Ira H. Bernstein
Professor of Psychology

Room 307 Life Sciences Bldg.
Phone: (817) 272-3183
Email: bernstein@uta.edu
Office Hours: MW 9-10 AM & 3:30-5:00 PM
Web Site: http://www2.uta.edu/Bernstein/

Description of Research

Basic research concerns the application of multivariate and psycho-metric models to both psychological inventories and to the study of perceptual processes. My most current areas of research interest in in the what makes faces look attractive and how do these differ cross culturally.

Representative Publications

Journal Articles

Bernstein, I. H. (1963). A comparison of schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics on two methods of administration of the Bender Gestalt test. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 16, 757 763.

Komorita, S. S. & Bernstein, I. H. (1964). Attitude, intensity and cognitive dissonance, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 69, 323 329.

Thune, L. E. & Bernstein, I. H. (1964). Preparatory set and complex behavioral processes: A review from 1948, Office of Naval Research Technical Report #10, Vanderbilt University.

Bernstein, I. H., & Eriksen, C. W. (1965). The effects of “subliminal” prompting on paired associates learning, Journal of Experimental Research in Personality, 1, 33 39.

Bernstein, I. H. & Reese, C. (1965). Behavioral hypotheses and choice reaction time, Psychonomic Science, 3, 259 260.

Bernstein, I. H., Siegel, E. M., & Segal, E. (1965). Absolute judgments under three viewing distances, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 21, 358.

Spielberger, C. D., Bernstein, I. H., & Ratliff, R. G. (1966). The information and incentive value of the reinforcing stimulus in verbal conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 26 31.

Bernstein, I. H. (1966). Autonomic perceptual and verbal behavior under two forms of fear inducing pretraining. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 20, 243 251.

Spielberger, C. D., Ratliff, R. G., & Bernstein, I. H. (1966). Verbal conditioning with verbal and monetary reinforcers. Psychological Reports, 19, 275 283.

Bernstein, I. H., Schurman, D. L., & Forester, G. (1967). Choice reaction time as a function of stimulus uncertainty, response uncertainty, and behavioral hypotheses. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 517 524.

Bernstein, I. H., & Reese, C. (1967). Choice reaction time and behavioral hypotheses: The effects of learning sequential redundancies. Psychonomic Science, 9, 189 190.

Bernstein, I. H., & Segal, E. M. (1968) Set and temporal integration. Perception and Psychophysics, 4, 233 236.

Bernstein, I. H., Blake, R. R., & Hughes, M. H. (1968). Effects of time and event uncertainty upon sequential information processing. Perception and Psychophysics, 3, 1977 1984.

Bernstein, I. H., Clark, M. H., and Edelstein, B. A. (1969a). Effects of an auditory signal on visual reaction time. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 80, 567 569.

Bernstein, I. H., Clark, M. H. & Edelstein, B. A. (1969b). Intermodal effects in choice reaction time. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 81, 405 407.

Bernstein, I. H., Blake, R. R., & Clark, M. H. (1969). Sensitivity and decisional effects in the psychological refractory period. Perception and Psychophysics, 7, 33 37.

Bernstein, I. H. (1970). Can we see and hear at the same time? Intersensory facilitation of reaction time. Acta Psychologica, 33, 21 35. Also in A. F. Sanders (Ed.) Attention and Performance III, Amsterdam: North Holland Press.

Bernstein, I. H., Rose, R. G., & Ashe, V. (1970a). Energy integration in intersensory facilitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 86, 196 203.

Bernstein, I. H., Rose, R. G., & Ashe, V. (1970b). Preparatory state effects in intersensory facilitation. Psychonomic Science, 19, 113 114.

Bernstein, I. H. & Eason, T. R. (1970). Use of tone offset to facilitate reaction time to light onset. Psychonomic Science, 20, 209 210.

Bernstein, I. H. & Clark, M. H. (1971). Intersensory effects in the psychological refractory period. Perception and Psychophysics, 9, 135 139.

Bernstein, I. H. & Day, R. (1971). Size constancy in mental retardates and normal: A signal detectability analysis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 78, 177 179.

Bernstein, I. H., & Edelstein, B. A. (1971). Effects of some variations in auditory input upon visual choice reaction time. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 87, 241 247.

Bernstein, I. H., Eason, T. R. & Schurman, D. L. (1971). Hue tone interactions: A negative result. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 33, 1327 1330.

Bernstein, I. H., Pederson, N. A., & Schurman, D. L. (1972). Intersensory vs. intrasensory contingent information processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 94, 156 161.

Bernstein, I. H., Futch, G. D., & Schurman, D. L. (1973). Some exposure duration effects in simple reaction time. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 97, 317 332.

Bernstein, I. H., Chu, P. K., Briggs, P., & Schurman, D. L. (1973). Stimulus, intensity and foreperiod of effects in intersensory facilitation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 5, 171 181.

Bernstein, I. H., Amundson, V. E., & Schurman, D. L. (1973). Metacontrast inferred from reaction time and verbal report: Replication and comments on the Fehrer Biederman experiment. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 100, 195 201.

Schurman, D. L., Proctor, R. W. & Bernstein, I. H. (1973). Modality specific short term storage for pressure. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1, 71 74.

Bernstein, I. H., Proctor, R. W., Proctor, J. D., & Schurman, D. L. (1973). Metacontrast and brightness discrimination. Perception and Psychophysics, 14, 293 297.

Proctor, R. W., Bernstein, I. H., & Schurman, D. L. (1974). Metacontrast and simple reaction time: A re examination. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102, 498 502.

Bernstein, I. H., Proctor, R. W., Belcher, J., & Schurman, D. L. (1974). An analysis of U shaped metacontrast. Perception and Psychophysics, 16, 329 336.

Razek, J. R. & Bernstein, I. H. (1976). Accounting reliability: A decision theoretic analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 61, 217 222.

Bernstein, I. H., Fisicaro, S. A., & Fox. J. A. (1976). Metacontrast suppression and criterion content: A discriminant function analysis. Perception and Psychophysics, 20, 198 204.

Bernstein, I. H., Smith, D. B., & Adey, M. (1977). Perceptual and response interdependencies in visual masking. Attention and Performance, VI, Stan Dornic (Ed.), 177 194

Fisicaro, S. A., Bernstein, I. H., & Narkiewicz, P. (1977). Apparent movement and metacontrast suppression: A decisional analysis. Perception and Psychophysics, 22, 517 525.

Bernstein, I. H. (1977). The criterion effect and signal detection theory, in Lynn, J. R., and Tate, G.W.G. Principles of Quantitative Perimetry, New York: Grune and Stratton, 295 305.

Snyder, W. B., Fuller, D., Hutton, W. L., Vaiser, A., & Bernstein, I. H. (1978). Retinal detachment and pseudophakia. Ophthalmology, 85, 229.

Bernstein, I. H. (1980). Security Guard MMPI profiles: A normative study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 44, 377 380.

Hutton, W. L., Fuller, D., & Bernstein, I. H. (1980). Diabetic traction retinal detachment factors influencing final visual acuity. Ophthalmology, 87, 1071 1077.

Bernstein, I. H. & Brodrick, J. (1981). Contrast sensitivities through spectacles and soft contact lenses. American Journal of Optometry and Physiological Optics, 58, 309 313.

Bernstein, I. H. & Brodrick, J. (1981). Contrast sensitivities for vision: Spectacles versus soft contact lenses. The Cornea in Health and Disease, VIth Congress of the European Society of Ophthalmology, Royal Society of Medicine International Congress and Symposium, Number 40, Academic Press, Inc. (London) Ltd, 551 556.

Bernstein, I. H., Schoenfeld, L. S., & Costello, R. M. (1982). Truncated component regression, multicolinearity and the MMPIs use in a police officer selection setting. Multivariate Behavior Research, 17, 99 116.

Bernstein, I. H. & Eveland, D. C. (1982). State vs. trait anxiety: A case study in confirmatory factor analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 3, 361 372.

Bernstein, I. H., Lin, T- D., & McClellan, P. B. (1982). Cross vs. within racial judgments of attractiveness. Perception and Psychophysics, 32, 495 503.

Bernstein, I. H., & Garbin, C. P. (1983). Hierarchical clustering of pain patients’ MMPI profiles. Journal of Personality Assessment, 47, 171 172.

Collingwood, T. R., Bernstein, I. H., Hubbard, D., & Blair, S. (1983). Canonical correlation analysis of clinical and psychologic data in 4,351 men and women. Journal of Cardiac Rehabilitation, 3, 706 711.

Bernstein, I. H., Garbin, C. P., & McClellan, P. G. (1983). A confirmatory factoring of the California Psychological Inventory. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 32, 687 691.

Garbin, C.P., & Bernstein, I. H. (1984). Visual and haptic perception of 3 dimensional solid forms. Perception and Psychophysics, 36, 104 110.

Bernstein, I. H., & Garbin, C. P. (1985a). A comparison of alternative proposed subscale structures for MMPI scale 2. Multivariate Behavior Research, 20, 223 225.

Bernstein, I. H., & Garbin, C. P. (1985b). A simple set of salient weights for the major dimensions of MMPI scale variation. Educational and Psychological Measurements, 45, 771 785.

Bernstein, I. H., Huang, M H., Teng, G., & Lin, T D. (1986). Effects of attitudes towards pornography upon male judgments of female attractiveness. Perception and Psychophysics, 39, 287 293.

Bernstein, I. H., Teng, G., & Garbin, C. P. (1986). A confirmatory factoring of the self consciousness scale. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 21, 459 475.

Garbin, C.P., Robertson, E., & Bernstein, I. H. (1986). An analysis of the internal structure of Levenson and Gottman’s Social Competency scale and suggestions for its use. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 406 407.

Collingwood, T. R., Bernstein, I. H., & Blair, S. (1987). The interrelation of coronary heart disease risk factors. A factor analysis of 23 variables, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, 7, 234 238 .

Bernstein, I. H., Teng, G., Grannemann. B., & Garbin, C. P. (1987). Invariance in the MMPI’s component structure. Journal of Personality Assessment, 51, 522 531.

Bernstein, I. H., Garbin, C., & Teng, G. (1988). Applied multivariate analysis. New York: Springer Verlag, Inc.

Bernstein, I. H., & Teng, G. (1989). Factoring items and factoring scales are different: Spurious evidence for multidimensionality due to item categorization. Psychological Bulletin, 105, 467 477.

Bernstein, I. H., Bissonnette, V., Vyas, A. & Barclay, P. (1989). Semantic Priming: Subliminal perception or context? Perception and Psychophysics, 45 (2), 153 161.

Dohr, K. B., Rush, A. J. & Bernstein, I. H. (1989). Cognitive biases and depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 98, 263 267.

Bissonnette, V., & Bernstein, I. H. (1990). Artifacts can replicate: A reply to Pliavin and Charng. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 554 561.

Bissonnette, V., Ickes, W., Bernstein, I., & Knowles, E. (1990a). Personality moderating variables: A warning about statistical artifact and a comparison of analytic techniques. Journal of Personality, 58, 567 587.

Bissonnette, V., Ickes, W., Bernstein, I., and Knowles, E. (1990b). Item variances and median splits: Some discouraging and disquieting findings. Journal of Personality, 58, 595 601.

Bernstein, I. H., Bissonnette, V., & Welch, K. (1990). Perceptual and response interdependencies in semantic priming. Perception and Psychophysics, 48 (6), 525 534.

Keith, J. B., McCreary, C., Collins, K., Smith, C. P., & Bernstein, I. H. (1991). Sexual activity and contraceptive usage among low income, urban, black adolescent females, Adolescence, 126, 769 785.

Bernstein, I. H. & Welch, K. (1991). Awareness, false recognition, and the Jacoby/Whitehouse effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 120, 324 328.

Bernstein, I. H., & Keith, J. B. (1991). Reexamination of Eisen, Zellman, and McAlister’s Health Belief Model Questionnaire. Health Education Quarterly, 18 (2), 207 220.

Lee, M.A., Sundberg, J. .L., & Bernstein, I. .H. (1993). Concurrent processes: The affect- cognition relationship within the context of the “mere exposure” effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 54, 33-42.

Nunnally, J. C., & Bernstein, I. H. (1994). Psychometric theory. (3rd. Ed.), New York: McGraw Hill (also available in Spanish translation).

Bernstein, I. H., Jaremko, M. E., & Hinkley, B. S. (1994). On the utility of the SCL-90-R with low-back pain patients, Spine, 19, 42-48.

Bernstein, I. H., Jaremko, M. E., & Hinkley, B. S. (1995). On the utility of the West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI), Spine, 20, 956-963.

Bernstein, I. H., & Havig, P. (1996). Proactive and retroactive priming in serial target detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 1482-1495.

Havig, P., & Bernstein, I. H. (1996). The effect of grouping on metacontrast masking. In S. Masin (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Padua, Italy: University of Padua, 281-286.

Bernstein, I. H., & Gesn, P. R. (1997). On the dimensionality of the Buss/Perry Aggression Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 35, 563-568.

Bernstein, I. H., & Havig, P. (1998). Computer literacy: Getting the most from your PC. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Weideman, R. A., McKinney, W. P., & Bernstein, I. H. (1998). Predictors of potential drug interactions. Hospital Pharmacy, 33, 835-840.

Weideman, R. A., Bernstein, I. H., & McKinney, W. P. (1999). Pharmacist recognition of potential drug interactions. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 56, 1524-1599.

Bernstein, I. H., Kolodner, R. M., & Kashner, T. M. (2000). Some determinants of diagnosis and neuroleptic administration among schizophrenic and mood disordered VA patients. Multivariate Experimental Clinical Research. 12, 57-69.

Bernstein, I. H. (2000). Projects in Experimental Psychology: Software for several classical perception experiments (Software Review), Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 32, 372-376.

Bernstein, I. H., Ellason, J. W., Ross, C. A., & Vanderlinden, J. (2001). On The Dimensionalities of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) and the Dissociation Questionnaire (DIS-Q), Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 2, 103-123.

Schweinle, W. E., Ickes, W., & Bernstein, I. H. (2002). Empathic accuracy in Husband to Wife Aggression: The overattribution bias. Personal Relationships, 9, 141-158.

Surís, A., Lind, L., Bernstein, I.A., Kashner, T.M., Young, K., & Worchel, J. (In press). Aggression and Impulsivity Instruments: An Examination in Veterans. Military Psychology.

Rush, A. J., Bernstein, I. H., Trivedi, M. H., Carmody, T. J., Wisniewski, S., Mundt, J. C., Shores-Wilson, K., Biggs, M. M., Woo, A., Nierenberg, A. A., Fava, M. (in press). An Evaluation of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression: A STAR*D Report. Biological Psychiatry.

Books

Bernstein, I. H. and Rowe, N. (2001). Statistical data analysis for the personal computer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Bernstein, I. H., Teng, G. K., & Schweinle, W. E., (under contract). Applied Multivariate Analysis (2nd. Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Book Chapters

Bernstein, I. H. (2005). Development of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Pp. 13-27, In R. W. Proctor and K-P. I. Vu (Eds.) Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design. Mahwah, NJ: LEA.

Bernstein, I. H. (2005). Likert Scale Analyses. In K. Kempf-Leonard (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. Vol 2, pp, 497-504. St. Louis, Mo: Academic Press.

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