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- Formal training in social psychology
and statistics
- Basic and applied research has focused
on crowd dynamics, intergroup relations, ingroup identification,
and the willingness to sacrifice for an ingroup, as well as memory
for specific events and methods for improving survey questionnaire
design and analysis
- Experienced in conducting focus groups,
individual interviews, observational studies, experiments, and
national surveys using telephone, mail, web, and in-person data
collection methods
- Skilled in basic and advanced statistical
methods (including regression analysis, logistic regression, factor
analysis and other forms of latent variable structure equation
modeling)
- Tested the accuracy of memory for aviation
safety events and errors
- Identified a large number of variables
that may predict changes in conflict during situations involving
crowds and military or civilian law enforcement control forces
- Identified the probabilities that some
real-time perceptual cues predict impending conflict change in
crowd situations and determined the degree to which those probabilities
differ or remain stable between cultures
- Developed and validated a model of
leadership in coalition military operations other than war such
as peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance operations
- Developing a PC computer-based training program incorporating
multimedia instruction, desktop simulation, and immersive virtual
reality technology to train military leaders to recognize cues
in ongoing crowd situations and select tactics that will be most
effective (a version for civilian law enforcement personnel is
planned to follow)
- Supervising development of 3D models of military and civilian
people, vehicles, and objects for use in immersive virtual reality
and desktop simulations
- Served for 11 years as an Air Force communications intelligence
specialist and intelligence analyst
- Project clients have included the US Air Force, the US Army,
NASA, NOAA, and the Battelle Memorial Institute
- Secret clearance
- Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2001;
Social Psychology (Minor in Quantitative/Statistical Psychology)
- M.A. Ohio State University, 1997; Psychology
- B.A. University of Texas, San Antonio, 1995, Psychology, Magna
Cum Laude
- 2001 to Now: Anacapa Sciences, Inc.
Senior Scientist to Principal Scientist
- 1981 - 1992 U. S. Air Force, Intelligence
Analyst
Silver, M. D., Schudel, K. M., & Lund, D.
A. (2003, November). A survey on cues indicating impending conflict
changes in crowd situations involving military control forces.
Paper presented at the fifth annual Non-lethal Technology and Academic
Research Symposium, Arlington, VA.
Mason, P., Heal, C., Sayegh, L., Silver, M. D., Constable, R., Ridgeway,
T., Land, C., & Scholl, D. (2003, November). Stormchaser: Collection
of real-time crowd control and area denial data. Paper presented
at the fifth annual Non-lethal Technology and Academic Research Symposium,
Arlington, VA.
Silver, M. D. & Silver, L. A. (In press). American national identification
among college students before, during, and after September 2001.
Psicologia Politica.
Silver, M. D., Hoyt, C. A., & Campsey, W. M. (2003). Identifying
Critical Factors Affecting Warrior Readiness for Coalition and Collaborative
Teams. Phase I final report for the Office of Secretary of Defense
(SBIR Topic OSD02-CR01).
Spiker, V. A., & Silver, M. D. (2003). Impact Assessment of a Crew
Resource Management (CRM) Debriefing Tool for the Cheyenne Mountain
Operations Center (CMOC). Report for the Air Force Research Laboratory/Warfighter
Training Research Division.
Silver, M. D. (2003). The multidimensional nature of ingroup identification.
Manuscript in preparation.
Silver, M. D., & Brewer, M. B. (2003). Ingroup loyalty as an action
tendency. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Pickett, C. L., Silver, M. D., & Brewer, M. B. (2002). The impact
of assimilation and differentiation needs on perceived group importance
and judgments of ingroup size. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 28, 546-558.
Silver, M. D. (2002). Tactics, Training, and Procedures for the
Warfighter Reacting to Crowd Dynamics. Phase I final report for
the Office of Secretary of Defense and the Air Force Research Laboratory
(SBIR Topic OSD01-CR08).
Krosnick, J. A. & Silver, M. D. (2002, May). Optimizing Survey
Measurement Accuracy by Matching Question Design to Respondent Memory
Organization. Paper presented at the annual convention of the
American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Pete Beach,
FL.
Silver, M. D. (2001, May). An experimental comparison of the quality
of data obtained in telephone and self administered mail surveys with
a listed sample. Paper presented at the annual convention of the
American Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
Brewer, M. B., & Silver, M. D. (2000). Group distinctiveness, social
identity, and collective mobilization. In S. Stryker, T. J. Owens,
& R. W. White (Eds.), Self, Identity, and Social Movements (pp.
153-171). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.
Silver, M. D., & Brewer, M. B. (2000, May). Individualism and collectivism
for specific social groups. Poster presented at the annual convention
of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
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