Silver

Faculty

N. Clayton Silver, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Program:

Experimental

Email:

fdnsilvr@unlv.nevada.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-0191

Accepting Graduate Students 2008-2009: YES

Research Interests

N. Clayton Silver has two main research areas. First, he investigates the salience, understandability, and behavioral compliance of warnings. There are numerous variables (e. g., familiarity of a product; signal words; icons) that influence whether we notice, read, and/or comply with a warning. His research considers these variables in an attempt to ultimately reduce accidents and increase safety related behaviors. Dr. Silver is also interested in general human factors issues. Second, Dr. Silver develops user-friendly statistical software that augments the standard statistical software packages (e. g., SPSS). Moreover, he also uses Monte Carlo simulations to examine the behavior (e. g., Type I error, power) of various statistical techniques. One of his primary interests in this field concerns hypothesis testing in correlation. Dr. Silver also has interests in psychometrics and measurement, including scale development and score validation.

Dr. Silver's 1988 Ph.D. is in experimental psychology from Tulane University with emphases in quantitative methods and data analysis.

Selected Publications

Silver, N. C., Kambe, G., Leany, B., Lee-Baker, M., & Lee, R. (2006). Signal word and text color influences on warning compliance. Proceedings of the 16^th World Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, (pp. 866-870). New York: Elsevier.

Wogalter, M. S., Silver, N. C., Leonard, S. D., & Zaikina, H. (2006). Warning symbols. In M. S. Wogalter (Ed.), Handbook of Warnings (pp. 159-176). Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Braun, C. C., Fouts, J., Silver, N. C., & Putnam, T. (2005). Effect of fire shelters on perceived fire danger: Implications for risk compensation. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 14, 297-306.

Silver, N. C. (2005). Statistical Software. In B. Everitt & D. C. Howell (Eds.), Encyclopedia

of behavioral statistics (pp. 1880-1884). New York: Wiley.

Silver, N. C., Hittner, J. B., & May, K. (2004). Testing dependent correlations with nonoverlapping variables: A Monte Carlo Simulation. Journal of Experimental Education, 73, 53-69.

Hittner, J. B, May, K., & Silver, N. C. (2003). A Monte Carlo evaluation of tests for comparing dependent correlations. Journal of General Psychology, 130, 149-168.

Silver, N. C., Drake, K. L., Niaghi, Z. B., Brim, A. C., & Pedraza, O. (2002). The effects of product, signal word, and color on warning labels: Differences in perceived hazard. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, (pp 735-739). Santa Monica , CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Silver, N. C. (2001). DIFALPHA: A FORTRAN 77 program for testing the difference between independent alpha coefficients with various test lengths. Applied Psychological Measurement, 25, 68.