Adam C Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam C Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam C |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1200-1230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intolerance of Ambiguity Mediates the Links Between Systems Thinking With Dichotomous Thinking and Attributional Complexity in a Canadian Sample
Dichotomous thinking is often employed to break down and simplify wicked problems (e.g., climate change) arising from complex adaptive systems (CASs). However, these dilemmas display emergent properties that cannot be reduced to the individual systemic parts. In contrast, systems thinking is considered to be essential in understanding the behaviour of CASs. The capacity to work with the ambiguity of CASs and wicked problems has been posited to be…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Intrasexual Competition
In the context of mating, individuals of the same sex often act as rivals in the pursuit, attraction, and retention of desirable partners. This study explored the relationships between intrasexual competition and various aspects of human mating psychology across three countries: Canada, Hungary, and Indonesia. A total of 661 adults (including women, men, non-binary, and gender-unspecified individuals) completed an online questionnaire assessing s…
Experimental evidence of the prejudice and discrimination that exists towards tattooed people in some hiring processes
A considerable body of research has shown having visible tattoos is linked to greater workplace-related discrimination, with some women reporting feeling dehumanized based on their tattoo status within the context of their careers. However, most of this work is qualitative in nature, and little correlational or experimental evidence has supported these links or examined specific mechanisms of prejudice that might underpin this discrimination. The…
Validating the Revised Mating Effort Questionnaire
Predicting dominance and prestige status-striving from the dark tetrad
Response to Commentaries
An Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement Behavior
Horror Manga
This article provides support for the argument that horror media “works” by activating evolved cognitive and affective systems that are flexibly tailored to local socio-ecological contexts. Guided by previous work using evolutionary theory to study horror literature (e.g., Clasen 2012, 2018, 2019), I investigate horror manga’s popularity and international market, which indicate a cross-cultural preoccupation with horror transmedia that is explic…
Biospheric Values Predict Ecological Cooperation in a Commons Dilemma Scenario
In ecological commons dilemma research, environmental values tend to be treated as a monolith. However, environmental values vary and they do not equally predict proenvironmental behavior. In this study, we investigated the impact of three kinds of proenvironmental values (egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric) on competitive and cooperative behavior in a hypothetical ecological commons dilemma scenario. Two hundred Canadian undergraduate students…
The dark triad and bullying in adolescence
Luteinizing Hormone
The Problem of Overpopulation
Human overpopulation continues to be a pressing problem for the health and viability of the environment, which impacts the survival and well-being of human populations. Limiting the number of offspring one produces or deciding to remain child-free may be viewed as a proenvironmental behavior (PEB) that can significantly reduce one's carbon footprint. Nonetheless, few researchers have examined the relations between environmental concerns, reported…
Sex Differences, Initiating Gossip
Type of jealousy differentially predicts cost-inflicting and benefit-provisioning mate retention
Jealousy is argued to be an adaptive emotion that coordinates the use of mate retention acts, denoting behavior intended to guard a relationship from rivals, to prevent infidelity, and to hinder defection from the mateship. Nevertheless, few researchers have examined these relations. We sampled 144 women and men in romantic relationships and found that anxious (unease over potential infidelity) and preventive (preventing one's partner from consor…
Sexual Jealousy
Within-Culture Differences in Self-Construal, Environmental Concern, and Proenvironmental Behavior
A substantial amount of research has employed Stern and Dietz's (1994) value-belief-norm theory in examining environmental concern. As useful as this model has been, it fails to take into account important personal and social factors, such as self-perception and culture, relevant to understanding environmental concern. The objective of the present research was to test a more comprehensive model of concern introduced by Arnocky, Stroink, and DeCic…
Type of jealousy differentially predicts cost-inflicting and benefit-provisioning mate retention
Jealousy is argued to be an adaptive emotion that coordinates the use of mate retention acts, denoting behavior intended to guard a relationship from rivals, to prevent infidelity, and to hinder defection from the mateship. Nevertheless, few researchers have examined these relations. We sampled 144 women and men in romantic relationships and found that anxious (unease over potential infidelity) and preventive (preventing one's partner from consor…
The dark triad and bullying in adolescence
Sexual Jealousy
Within-Culture Differences in Self-Construal, Environmental Concern, and Proenvironmental Behavior
A substantial amount of research has employed Stern and Dietz's (1994) value-belief-norm theory in examining environmental concern. As useful as this model has been, it fails to take into account important personal and social factors, such as self-perception and culture, relevant to understanding environmental concern. The objective of the present research was to test a more comprehensive model of concern introduced by Arnocky, Stroink, and DeCic…
Sex Differences, Initiating Gossip
Type of jealousy differentially predicts cost-inflicting and benefit-provisioning mate retention
Jealousy is argued to be an adaptive emotion that coordinates the use of mate retention acts, denoting behavior intended to guard a relationship from rivals, to prevent infidelity, and to hinder defection from the mateship. Nevertheless, few researchers have examined these relations. We sampled 144 women and men in romantic relationships and found that anxious (unease over potential infidelity) and preventive (preventing one's partner from consor…
Luteinizing Hormone
The Problem of Overpopulation
Human overpopulation continues to be a pressing problem for the health and viability of the environment, which impacts the survival and well-being of human populations. Limiting the number of offspring one produces or deciding to remain child-free may be viewed as a proenvironmental behavior (PEB) that can significantly reduce one's carbon footprint. Nonetheless, few researchers have examined the relations between environmental concerns, reported…
Response to Commentaries
An Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement Behavior
Horror Manga
This article provides support for the argument that horror media “works” by activating evolved cognitive and affective systems that are flexibly tailored to local socio-ecological contexts. Guided by previous work using evolutionary theory to study horror literature (e.g., Clasen 2012, 2018, 2019), I investigate horror manga’s popularity and international market, which indicate a cross-cultural preoccupation with horror transmedia that is explic…
Biospheric Values Predict Ecological Cooperation in a Commons Dilemma Scenario
In ecological commons dilemma research, environmental values tend to be treated as a monolith. However, environmental values vary and they do not equally predict proenvironmental behavior. In this study, we investigated the impact of three kinds of proenvironmental values (egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric) on competitive and cooperative behavior in a hypothetical ecological commons dilemma scenario. Two hundred Canadian undergraduate students…
The dark triad and bullying in adolescence
Predicting dominance and prestige status-striving from the dark tetrad
Validating the Revised Mating Effort Questionnaire
Experimental evidence of the prejudice and discrimination that exists towards tattooed people in some hiring processes
A considerable body of research has shown having visible tattoos is linked to greater workplace-related discrimination, with some women reporting feeling dehumanized based on their tattoo status within the context of their careers. However, most of this work is qualitative in nature, and little correlational or experimental evidence has supported these links or examined specific mechanisms of prejudice that might underpin this discrimination. The…
Intolerance of Ambiguity Mediates the Links Between Systems Thinking With Dichotomous Thinking and Attributional Complexity in a Canadian Sample
Dichotomous thinking is often employed to break down and simplify wicked problems (e.g., climate change) arising from complex adaptive systems (CASs). However, these dilemmas display emergent properties that cannot be reduced to the individual systemic parts. In contrast, systems thinking is considered to be essential in understanding the behaviour of CASs. The capacity to work with the ambiguity of CASs and wicked problems has been posited to be…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Intrasexual Competition
In the context of mating, individuals of the same sex often act as rivals in the pursuit, attraction, and retention of desirable partners. This study explored the relationships between intrasexual competition and various aspects of human mating psychology across three countries: Canada, Hungary, and Indonesia. A total of 661 adults (including women, men, non-binary, and gender-unspecified individuals) completed an online questionnaire assessing s…
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)