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Overview

Stephen E. Palmer is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple fields including economics and econometrics, clinical psychology, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work spans several interconnected subfields that contribute to the understanding of health systems and economic evaluations.

The scientist's research topics focus primarily on health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; motivation and self-concept in sports; cancer genomics and diagnostics; ethics in clinical research; biomedical ethics and regulation; ethics in medical practice; and cardiac valve diseases and treatments.

Stephen E. Palmer has published articles in various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include Value in Health, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), The American Journal of Bioethics, Research Square, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Partnering With Patients to Bridge Gaps in Consent for Acute Care Research, 2020, The American Journal of Bioethics
  • Routine cerebral embolic protection in transcatheter aortic valve implantation: rationale and design of the randomised British Heart Foundation PROTECT-TAVI trial, 2023, EuroIntervention
  • Routine Cerebral Embolic Protection during Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation, 2025, New England Journal of Medicine
  • A Guide to Selecting Flexible Survival Models to Inform Economic Evaluations of Cancer Immunotherapies, 2022, Value in Health
  • Causal inference and large-scale expert validation shed light on the drivers of SDM accuracy and variance, 2023, Diversity and Distributions

Stephen E. Palmer collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Marta Soares, Adrian Banning, Sophie Whyte, Neal W. Dickert, and Amanda Michelle Bernard. These partnerships have contributed to multiple research outputs and span across overlapping scientific interests.

Best Publications

  • Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology

    Stephen E. Palmer

  • A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception I. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization

    Johan Wagemans;James H. Elder;Michael Kubovy;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Similarity and analogical reasoning

    Stella Vosniadou;Andrew Ortony

  • Hierarchical structure in perceptual representation.

    Stephen E. Palmer

  • Rethinking perceptual organization: The role of uniform connectedness.

    Stephen Palmer;Irvin Rock

  • An ecological valence theory of human color preference

    Stephen E. Palmer;Karen B. Schloss

  • Canonical perspective and the perception of objects

    S. E. Palmer

  • Visual aesthetics and human preference

    Stephen E. Palmer;Karen B. Schloss;Jonathan Sammartino

  • The Legacy of Gestalt Psychology

    Irvin Rock;Stephen Palmer

  • The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy and paroxetine for severe irritable bowel syndrome.

    Francis Creed;Lakshmi Fernandes;Elspeth Guthrie;Stephen Palmer

  • Form and texture in hierarchically constructed patterns.

    Ruth Kimchi;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Music–color associations are mediated by emotion

    Stephen E. Palmer;Karen B. Schloss;Zoe Xu;Lilia R. Prado-León

  • Common region: A new principle of perceptual grouping

    Stephen E Palmer

  • Perception of partly occluded objects: A microgenetic analysis.

    Allison B. Sekuler;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Orientation and symmetry: effects of multiple, rotational, and near symmetries.

    Stephen E. Palmer;Kathleen Hemenway

  • Methods to identify postnatal depression in primary care: an integrated evidence synthesis and value of information analysis.

    CE Hewitt;SM Gilbody;S Brealey;M Paulden

  • The Psychology of Perceptual Organization: A Transformational Approach

    Stephen E. Palmer

  • Aesthetic response to color combinations: preference, harmony, and similarity

    Karen B. Schloss;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Remembering the Earthquake: Direct Experience vs. Hearing the News

    Ulric Neisser;Eugene Winograd;Erik T. Bergman;Charles A. Schreiber

  • An ecological valence theory of human color preferences

    Stephen E. Palmer;Karen B. Schloss

  • The information processing approach to cognition

    Stephen Palmer;Ruth Kimchi

  • Aesthetic science: Connecting minds, brains, and experience.

    Arthur Paul Shimamura;Stephen E. Palmer

  • What makes triangles point: Local and global effects in configurations of ambiguous triangles

    Stephen E. Palmer

  • Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint.

    Stephen E. Palmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Kimchi
Ruth Kimchi University of Haifa
Mary A. Peterson
Mary A. Peterson University of Arizona
Irvin Rock
Irvin Rock University of California, Berkeley
Shaun P. Vecera
Shaun P. Vecera University of Iowa
Allison B. Sekuler
Allison B. Sekuler McMaster University
Lynn C. Robertson
Lynn C. Robertson University of California, Berkeley
Anna Franklin
Anna Franklin University of Sussex
Dean Keith Simonton
Dean Keith Simonton University of California, Davis
Andrew J. Elliot
Andrew J. Elliot University of Rochester

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