Michael Smithson

About Michael Smithson

Michael Smithson, With an exceptional h-index of 43 and a recent h-index of 26 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Australian National University, specializes in the field of uncertainty, ignorance, multivariate statistics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Flexible cdf-quantile distributions on the closed unit interval, with software and applications

A qualitative survey of people's reactions to conflictive uncertainty

Curiously different: Interest-curiosity and deprivation-curiosity may have distinct benefits and drawbacks

The receiver operating characteristic area under the curve (or mean ridit) as an effect size.

Open or opposed to unknowns: How do curious people think and feel about uncertainty?

Understanding Australian Government Risk Communication Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sociodemographics, Risk Attitudes and Media Consumption

The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development

Measure comparsion study (test-retest reliability with repeated trials)

Michael Smithson Information

University

Position

Psychology The

Citations(all)

10076

Citations(since 2020)

3831

Cited By

7473

hIndex(all)

43

hIndex(since 2020)

26

i10Index(all)

95

i10Index(since 2020)

58

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Michael Smithson Skills & Research Interests

uncertainty

ignorance

multivariate statistics

Top articles of Michael Smithson

Flexible cdf-quantile distributions on the closed unit interval, with software and applications

Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods

2024/6/2

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Yiyun Shou
Yiyun Shou

H-Index: 11

A qualitative survey of people's reactions to conflictive uncertainty

2023/10/23

Curiously different: Interest-curiosity and deprivation-curiosity may have distinct benefits and drawbacks

Personality and Individual Differences

2023/10/1

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

The receiver operating characteristic area under the curve (or mean ridit) as an effect size.

Psychological Methods

2023/7/13

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Open or opposed to unknowns: How do curious people think and feel about uncertainty?

Personality and Individual Differences

2023/7/1

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Understanding Australian Government Risk Communication Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sociodemographics, Risk Attitudes and Media Consumption

Journal of Health Communication

2023/4/3

The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development

Cognitive Development

2023/4/1

Measure comparsion study (test-retest reliability with repeated trials)

2023/3/21

CDFQUANTREG01: Stata module for estimating generalized linear models for doubly-bounded random variables with finite-tailed cdf-quantile distributions

2023/2/1

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

The psychological benefits of an uncertain world: Hope and optimism in the face of existential threat

Frontiers in Psychology

2022/3/23

Compositional data analysis tutorial.

Psychological Methods

2022/1/31

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Risk tolerance and changes in COVID-related health behaviors: A longitudinal study

2022

Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.

Health Psychology

2022/8

Ignorance Studies: State of the Art

2022/6/27

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Ignorance and the brain: Are there distinct kinds of unknowns?

2022/6/27

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Helen Pushkarskaya
Helen Pushkarskaya

H-Index: 7

Decision making under uncertainty and information credibility

Psychological Reports

2014

The Psychology of Conflictive Uncertainty

2022/5/21

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Cause or symptom? A longitudinal test of bidirectional relationships between emotion regulation strategies and mental health symptoms.

Emotion

2021/10

How big is (sample) space? Judgment and decision making with unknown states and outcomes.

Decision

2021/10

Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson

H-Index: 24

Yiyun Shou
Yiyun Shou

H-Index: 11

Truncated family of distributions with applications to time and cost to start a business

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

2021/3

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