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David B. Flora

David B. Flora

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Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
10749
World Ranking
8716
National Ranking
583

Overview

David B. Flora is affiliated with York University in Canada and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Medicine, with a focus on several clinical and environmental subfields. Their work encompasses Clinical Psychology, Water Science and Technology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pharmacy, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics of Flora's research include Fluoride Effects and Removal, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Infant Health and Development, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Dental Health and Care Utilization, Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, and Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging.

Frequent co-authors in Flora's research collaborations are Christine Till, Bruce P. Lanphear, Rivka Green, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, and Hartley Garfield.

Scientific articles by Flora have been published in venues such as Environmental Research, Frontiers in Public Health, ISEE Conference Abstracts, UNC Libraries, and Environmental Health. Among these, Environmental Research and Frontiers in Public Health are recurrent publication outlets.

Selected papers by David B. Flora include:

  • Your Coefficient Alpha Is Probably Wrong, but Which Coefficient Omega Is Right? A Tutorial on Using R to Obtain Better Reliability Estimates (2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science)
  • Thinking about effect sizes: From the replication crisis to a cumulative psychological science. (2020, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne)

Other recent publications where Flora is a contributing author alongside co-researchers cover topics such as cognitive biases and neurotoxic effects in children, with those papers appearing in journals like the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Environmental Research.

Best Publications

  • An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data.

    David B. Flora;Patrick J. Curran

  • Trajectories of alcohol and drug use and dependence from adolescence to adulthood: the effects of familial alcoholism and personality

    Laurie Chassin;David B. Flora;Kevin M. King

  • Development and validation of the multidimensional state boredom scale.

    Shelley A. Fahlman;Kimberley B. Mercer-Lynn;David B. Flora;John D. Eastwood

  • Development and examination of the social appearance anxiety scale.

    Trevor A. Hart;David B. Flora;Sarah A. Palyo;David M. Fresco

  • Your Coefficient Alpha Is Probably Wrong, but Which Coefficient Omega Is Right? A Tutorial on Using R to Obtain Better Reliability Estimates:

    David B. Flora

  • Old and New Ideas for Data Screening and Assumption Testing for Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis

    David B. Flora;Cathy LaBrish;R. Philip Chalmers

  • Treating Offenders with Mental Illness: A Research Synthesis

    Robert D. Morgan;David B. Flora;Daryl G. Kroner;Jeremy F. Mills

  • The Purpose and Practice of Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Psychological Research: Decisions for Scale Development and Validation

    David B. Flora;Jessica K. Flake

  • Reporting effect sizes in original psychological research: A discussion and tutorial.

    Jolynn Pek;David B. Flora

  • Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada

    Rivka Green;Bruce Lanphear;Bruce Lanphear;Richard Hornung;David Flora

  • The Unity and Diversity of Inattention and Hyperactivity/Impulsivity in ADHD: Evidence for a General Factor with Separable Dimensions

    Maggie E. Toplak;Ashley Pitch;David B. Flora;Linda Iwenofu

  • The Measurement of Boredom: Differences Between Existing Self-Report Scales

    Kimberley B. Mercer-Lynn;David B. Flora;Shelley A. Fahlman;John D. Eastwood

  • Specifying Piecewise Latent Trajectory Models for Longitudinal Data

    David B. Flora

  • Defining risk heterogeneity for internalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parents

    Andrea M. Hussong;David B. Flora;Patrick J. Curran;Laurie A. Chassin

  • The impact of premorbid and postmorbid depression onset on mortality and cardiac morbidity among patients with coronary heart disease: meta-analysis.

    Yvonne W Leung;David B Flora;Shannon Gravely;Jane Irvine

  • It Might Not Make a Big DIF Improved Differential Test Functioning Statistics That Account for Sampling Variability

    R. Philip Chalmers;Alyssa Counsell;David B. Flora

  • Group psychotherapy with incarcerated offenders: A research synthesis.

    Robert D. Morgan;David B. Flora

  • Understanding driver anger and aggression: Attributional theory in the driving environment.

    Christine M. Wickens;David L. Wiesenthal;David B. Flora;Gordon L. Flett

  • The hierarchical factor model of ADHD: invariant across age and national groupings?

    Maggie E. Toplak;Geoff B. Sorge;David B. Flora;Wai Chen

  • An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes

    Jala Rizeq;David B. Flora;Maggie E. Toplak

  • Posttraumatic stress symptoms and the diathesis-stress model of chronic pain and disability in patients undergoing major surgery.

    Andrea L. Martin;Eileen Halket;Gordon J.G. Asmundson;David B. Flora

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca Pillai Riddell
Rebecca Pillai Riddell York University
Maggie E. Toplak
Maggie E. Toplak York University
Rosemary Tannock
Rosemary Tannock University of Toronto
Laurie Chassin
Laurie Chassin Arizona State University
Patrick J. Curran
Patrick J. Curran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen University of Southern Denmark
Andrea M. Hussong
Andrea M. Hussong University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lucia Gagliese
Lucia Gagliese York University
John D. Eastwood
John D. Eastwood York University
Gordon L. Flett
Gordon L. Flett York University

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