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50
Citations
11311
World Ranking
2735
National Ranking
1329

Overview

Thomas A. Heberlein is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including Psychology, Social Sciences, and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Within these broader categories, specific subfields of study include Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work addresses topics related to Recreation, Leisure, and Wilderness Management, Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research, and Economic and Environmental Valuation. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach that integrates behavioral, social, and economic perspectives.

Heberlein has contributed to academic literature through publications in relevant venues. A recent paper titled "Why do normative encounter standards change? The social evolution of recreational crowding" was published in the Journal of Leisure Research in 2020. This publication explores the dynamics of social norms in recreational settings and has received citations within the academic community.

Collaborative work is part of Heberlein's scholarly activity, with frequent co-authors including Walter F. Kuentzel, with whom there have been multiple joint publications, and Daniel W. McCollum.

  • Recent paper: "Why do normative encounter standards change? The social evolution of recreational crowding" (2020, Journal of Leisure Research)
  • Frequent co-authors: Walter F. Kuentzel, Daniel W. McCollum
  • Frequent publication venues: Journal of Leisure Research
  • Main fields of study: Psychology, Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Subfields of study: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics
  • Main topics of work: Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research; Economic and Environmental Valuation

Best Publications

  • MEASURING VALUES OF EXTRAMARKET GOODS: ARE INDIRECT MEASURES BIASED?

    Richard C. Bishop;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Factors affecting response rates to mailed questionnaires: A quantitative analysis of the published literature.

    Thomas A. Heberlein;Robert Baumgartner

  • Navigating Environmental Attitudes

    Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Attitudes of hunters, locals, and the general public in Sweden now that the wolves are back

    Göran Ericsson;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • A quantitative summary of attitudes toward wolves and their reintroduction (1972-2000)

    Christopher K. Williams;Göran Ericsson;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Carrying Capacity in Recreation Settings

    Byron Bruce Shelby;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • The End of the (Research) World As We Know It? Understanding and Coping With Declining Response Rates to Mail Surveys

    Richard C. Stedman;Nancy A. Connelly;Thomas A. Heberlein;Daniel J. Decker

  • Comparative analysis of crowding in multiple locations: Results from fifteen years of research

    Bo Shelby;Jerry J. Vaske;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Backcountry encounter norms: theory, method and empirical evidence.

    Jerry J. Vaske;Bo Shelby;Alan R. Graefe;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Attitudinal specificity and the prediction of behavior in a field setting.

    Thomas A. Heberlein;J. Stanley Black

  • The Land Ethic Realized: Some Social Psychological Explanations for Changing Environmental Attitudes1

    Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Ties to the Countryside: Accounting for Urbanites Attitudes toward Hunting, Wolves, and Wildlife

    Thomas A. Heberlein;Göran Ericsson

  • Rethinking the scope test as a criterion for validity in contingent valuation

    Thomas A. Heberlein;Matthew A. Wilson;Richard C. Bishop;Nora Cate Schaeffer

  • Fairness in the contingent valuation of environmental public goods: attitude toward paying for environmental improvements at two levels of scope

    Bradley S Jorgensen;Mathew A Wilson;Thomas A Heberlein

  • A conceptual framework for carrying capacity determination

    Bo Shelby;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Cognitive and behavioral adaptations to perceived crowding: a panel study of coping and displacement.

    Walter F. Kuentzel;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Differences in reported satisfaction ratings by consumptive and nonconsumptive recreationists.

    Jerry J. Vaske;Maureen P. Donnelly;Thomas A. Heberlein;Bo Shelby

  • Improving interdisciplinary research: Integrating the social and natural sciences

    Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Perceptions of crowding and resource quality by early and more recent visitors

    Jerry J. Vaske;Maureen P. Donnelly;Thomas A. Heberlein

  • Eat prey and love: Game‐meat consumption and attitudes toward hunting

    Per E. Ljung;Shawn J. Riley;Thomas A. Heberlein;Thomas A. Heberlein;Göran Ericsson

  • “Fire in the Sistine Chapel”: How Wisconsin Responded to Chronic Wasting Disease

    Thomas A. Heberlein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerry J. Vaske
Jerry J. Vaske Colorado State University
Richard C. Stedman
Richard C. Stedman Cornell University
Daniel Linz
Daniel Linz University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel J. Decker
Daniel J. Decker Cornell University
Elizabeth Thomson
Elizabeth Thomson Stockholm University
Alan R. Graefe
Alan R. Graefe Pennsylvania State University
Glenn V. Fuguitt
Glenn V. Fuguitt University of Wisconsin–Madison

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