John Booth Davies
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 242800 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Booth Davies |
| NOMBRES | John Booth |
| APELLIDO | Davies |
| FIRMA | DAVIES J B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7260-8491 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Addiction is not a brain disease
People cannot decide to give up pneumonia or decide not to be diabetic. They can and do, however, decide to give up their addictions to drinking, smoking and taking drugs, in large numbers.This I b
I Think I’m an Addict, Therefore I Am … er
To experience a subjective feeling of depression is to be depressed. The state and the subjective feeling are one and the same thing. In the same way, to feel happy (i.e. to have a subjective feeli
In verbis, vinum? Relating themes in an open-ended writing task to alcohol behaviors
Alcohol's function as a regulator of emotions has long been denoted in figures of speech, most famously 'in vino, veritas' (in wine, truth). In contrast, we ask whether an individual's self-reported alcohol consumption and related attitudes can be correlated with the words they use to write about alcohol. Participants completed an open-ended essay as part of a survey on alcohol attitudes and behaviors. We used a computerized technique, the Meanin…
Sorry everyone, but it didn't work ( p = 0.06)
The more or less ubiquitous use of Fisher-type statistics in quantitative/numeric evaluations of drug and alcohol education initiatives takes place within the context of a literature of long standing which suggests there are areas in which null hypothesis testing and the use of conventional cut-off points (i.e. the 1% and 5% probability levels) are inappropriate. This literature is largely ignored. The paper identifies some of these issues in ter…
Change of UK Editor-in-Chief
Addiction or existential malaise? Same or different
This book review is about 'The globalisation of addiction: a study in poverty of the spirit' by Bruce Alexander
Attributions given by drug users from three different settings
Attributions for drug use were assessed in three groups of drug users. Both questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used. The drug users came from three sources – students (S, n = 12), Narcotics Anonymous (NA, n = 5) and a Glasgow-based residential rehabilitation unit (RH, n = 6). There were two associated hypotheses – (1) students should give less addicted explanations – i.e. they should give unstable but controllable attributions whe…
Encoding during the attentional lapse
The Gortyn Laws
Gortyn, like the rest of classical Crete, presents a paradox. Though we know little of its history in the archaic and classical periods from literary sources, and though we know virtually nothing about individuals, the exceptional richness of its legal inscriptions has made the city a prime focus of attention for historians both of Greek law and of Greek society. Yet, although no survey of Greek law can neglect these texts, they present intractab…
Subjective experience and the attentional lapse
Applied Hermeneutics and Qualitative Safety Data
This article describes the new qualitative methodology developed for use in CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis System), the confidential database set up for the UK railways by the University of Strathclyde. CIRAS is a project in which qualitative safety data are disidentified and then stored and analysed in a central database. Due to the confidential nature of the data provided, conventional (positivist) methods of checking their…
Addiction as a functional representation
Addiction as a functional representation
This study examined how perceptions of the addicted state vary as a function of social conditions, personal circumstances and type of substance. University students ( n = 144) were presented with portrayals of drug users in which sex, drug type and social setting were varied. A questionnaire determined the degree to which participants thought that the person portrayed was (i) addicted, (ii) prone to use drugs due to his/her personality, and (iii)…
Behavioural change amongst drug injectors in Scottish prisons
Have You Got the Copyright
The Psychology of Music
Memory for melodies and tonal sequences
This note is concerned with recent research into memory for tunes and tonal sequences, and is intended to show that there are serious conceptual problems in this area. Reference is made to work by Dowling & Fujitani (1971), Cuddy & Cohen (1976), and to an earlier paper by Deutsch (1969). It is not concerned with more widely studied problem of memory for individual tones. Experimental work on memory for tunes has relied heavily on recognition para…
New Tests of Musical Aptitude
Existing tests of musical ability, with the exception of the Seashore battery (1919), have made extensive use of musical material. Since the musical experience of individuals may differ in extent and type, some experiential bias may result. In the present study, a new series of tests of musical aptitude is described which makes no use of formal musical material, but which involves non‐musical or quasi‐musical forms. Analysis of results obtained w…
Addiction as a functional representation
This study examined how perceptions of the addicted state vary as a function of social conditions, personal circumstances and type of substance. University students ( n = 144) were presented with portrayals of drug users in which sex, drug type and social setting were varied. A questionnaire determined the degree to which participants thought that the person portrayed was (i) addicted, (ii) prone to use drugs due to his/her personality, and (iii)…
Behavioural change amongst drug injectors in Scottish prisons
New Tests of Musical Aptitude
Existing tests of musical ability, with the exception of the Seashore battery (1919), have made extensive use of musical material. Since the musical experience of individuals may differ in extent and type, some experiential bias may result. In the present study, a new series of tests of musical aptitude is described which makes no use of formal musical material, but which involves non‐musical or quasi‐musical forms. Analysis of results obtained w…
Memory for melodies and tonal sequences
This note is concerned with recent research into memory for tunes and tonal sequences, and is intended to show that there are serious conceptual problems in this area. Reference is made to work by Dowling & Fujitani (1971), Cuddy & Cohen (1976), and to an earlier paper by Deutsch (1969). It is not concerned with more widely studied problem of memory for individual tones. Experimental work on memory for tunes has relied heavily on recognition para…
The Psychology of Music
Have You Got the Copyright
Behavioural change amongst drug injectors in Scottish prisons
Addiction as a functional representation
Addiction as a functional representation
This study examined how perceptions of the addicted state vary as a function of social conditions, personal circumstances and type of substance. University students ( n = 144) were presented with portrayals of drug users in which sex, drug type and social setting were varied. A questionnaire determined the degree to which participants thought that the person portrayed was (i) addicted, (ii) prone to use drugs due to his/her personality, and (iii)…
Applied Hermeneutics and Qualitative Safety Data
This article describes the new qualitative methodology developed for use in CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis System), the confidential database set up for the UK railways by the University of Strathclyde. CIRAS is a project in which qualitative safety data are disidentified and then stored and analysed in a central database. Due to the confidential nature of the data provided, conventional (positivist) methods of checking their…
Subjective experience and the attentional lapse
The Gortyn Laws
Gortyn, like the rest of classical Crete, presents a paradox. Though we know little of its history in the archaic and classical periods from literary sources, and though we know virtually nothing about individuals, the exceptional richness of its legal inscriptions has made the city a prime focus of attention for historians both of Greek law and of Greek society. Yet, although no survey of Greek law can neglect these texts, they present intractab…
Encoding during the attentional lapse
Attributions given by drug users from three different settings
Attributions for drug use were assessed in three groups of drug users. Both questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used. The drug users came from three sources – students (S, n = 12), Narcotics Anonymous (NA, n = 5) and a Glasgow-based residential rehabilitation unit (RH, n = 6). There were two associated hypotheses – (1) students should give less addicted explanations – i.e. they should give unstable but controllable attributions whe…
Addiction or existential malaise? Same or different
This book review is about 'The globalisation of addiction: a study in poverty of the spirit' by Bruce Alexander
Change of UK Editor-in-Chief
Sorry everyone, but it didn't work ( p = 0.06)
The more or less ubiquitous use of Fisher-type statistics in quantitative/numeric evaluations of drug and alcohol education initiatives takes place within the context of a literature of long standing which suggests there are areas in which null hypothesis testing and the use of conventional cut-off points (i.e. the 1% and 5% probability levels) are inappropriate. This literature is largely ignored. The paper identifies some of these issues in ter…
I Think I’m an Addict, Therefore I Am … er
To experience a subjective feeling of depression is to be depressed. The state and the subjective feeling are one and the same thing. In the same way, to feel happy (i.e. to have a subjective feeli
In verbis, vinum? Relating themes in an open-ended writing task to alcohol behaviors
Alcohol's function as a regulator of emotions has long been denoted in figures of speech, most famously 'in vino, veritas' (in wine, truth). In contrast, we ask whether an individual's self-reported alcohol consumption and related attitudes can be correlated with the words they use to write about alcohol. Participants completed an open-ended essay as part of a survey on alcohol attitudes and behaviors. We used a computerized technique, the Meanin…
Addiction is not a brain disease
People cannot decide to give up pneumonia or decide not to be diabetic. They can and do, however, decide to give up their addictions to drinking, smoking and taking drugs, in large numbers.This I b
Psychology (16 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Addiction (4 obras) · Cognitive psychology (4 obras) · Developmental psychology (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras)