Paul Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 100426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bath Spa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3436-182X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 538 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection
There is accumulating evidence that distinct forms of domain-general inhibition underlie the selection of lexical candidates from among co-activated representations in single-word production. It is less clear whether similar control processes are engaged in the resolution of syntactic conflict in sentence production. This study assessed the relative contribution of three types of inhibitory control operating at different stages of information pro…
Triangulation (Being the record of a discussion of comics theory conducted on 2nd May 2018, transcribed into words and then comics in the period since.)
Doctors John, Thierry and Paul planned to record a conversation about the comics theories they had explored in the course of pursuing their respective PhDs, to see whether these were consistent – with plans to co-created a ‘verbatim comic’ based on the recordings.To keep things manageable each composed five questions, from which two were chosen to answer, for a strict one minute each – with a little chance for comments, questions and responses af…
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences
Despite being a defining issue in the culture war, the political psychology of abortion attitudes remains poorly understood. We address this oversight by reviewing existing literature and integrating new analyses of several large‐scale, cross‐sectional, and longitudinal datasets to identify the demographic and ideological correlates of abortion attitudes. Our review and new analyses indicate that abortion support is increasing modestly over time …
The use of Cartography of Controversy within socioscientific issues-based education: Students’ mapping of the badger-cattle controversy in England
This qualitative study examines the pedagogical potential that a Cartography of Controversy (CoC) approach has in enabling secondary school students to unravel the complexity of socioscientific issues and to communicate about them. The aim was to examine the types of knowledge and the ways in which students approached uncertainty when asked to explore the badger-cattle controversy in England using the CoC approach. A learning sequence focusing on…
Types of interference and their resolution in monolingual word production
There is growing evidence that speakers recruit inhibitory control in situations of high within-language interference, e.g., when selecting from among competing lexical entries or when tailoring utterances to the communicative needs of the addressee. However, little is known about the types of cognitive control mechanisms that are involved in the speech production process. This study examines the relative contribution of various forms of interfer…
On Getting It Right
This article focuses on some of the themes and questions at the heart of Gabriel Josipovici’s fictional and critical writing, most notably the idea that reading is a matter of participation rather than understanding. It asks what is distinctive about Josipovici’s relationship with other philosophically inclined critics and theorists. It offers a participatory reading of one of his critical writings demonstrating the care with which it is arranged…
Making a significant place: Excavations at the Late Mesolithic site of Langley’s Lane, Midsomer Norton, Bath and North-East Somerset
Excavations at the site of Langley’s Lane, Bath and North-East Somerset, have revealed an important sequence of Late Mesolithic activity focused around an active tufa spring. The sequence of activity starts off as an aurochs kill and primary butchery site. Culturally appropriate depositional practices occur through the placement of a selection of bone in the wetland of the spring and the digging of pits around the spring margins. The spring at La…
Scaling children's waist circumference for differences in body size
Objectives Both waist circumference (WC) and body size (height) increase with age throughout childhood. Hence, there is a need to scale WC in children to detect differences in adiposity status (eg, between populations and different age groups), independent of body size/height. Methods Using two culturally different samples, 1 English (10–15.9 years n = 9471) and 2 Colombian (14–15 years, n = 37,948), for WC to be independent of height (HT), a bod…
Uneasiness: The line between Sterne's novel and Locke's Essay
The paper notes the tendency and temptation for scholars and critics to find a justification in the novel for silencing or categorising Locke, and for lampooning or reducing to absurdity the project and the arguments of the Essay. It argues that such approaches can miss what is most interesting in the novel’s indebtedness to the Essay, and offers a reading of a famous sequence where Walter, Toby, and Tristram mention, quote, present, rearrange an…
Stereotype Threat
When members of a stigmatized group find themselves in a situation where negative stereotypes provide a possible framework for interpreting their behavior, the risk of being judged in light of those stereotypes can elicit a disruptive state that undermines performance and aspirations in that domain. This situational predicament, termed stereotype threat, continues to be an intensely debated and researched topic in educational, social, and organiz…
Framing the Miraculous: The Devotional Functions of Perspective in Italian Renaissance Tabernacle Design
Corporate Boards in Europe—Accountability and Convergence
Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and are therefore regulated in the corporate laws and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while there is a common core of rules, considerable differences remain, not only in the details, but sometimes also regarding main issues. These differences depend partly on shareholder structure (dispersed or blockholding), partly on path dependent historical, political…
Selectively friending: Racial stereotypicality and social rejection
Advancing teacher knowledge of effective argumentation pedagogy
This paper provides a discussion of the methodological approach to a research project that builds on previous studies of effective argumentation pedagogy undertaken by one of the authors. In this study, teachers from six schools in a city location are taking part in a one-year project to use new web-based professional development materials to advance their practice in using group discussion and argumentation in science. The teachers attend worksh…
Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology, and Complexity
Ambient belonging: How stereotypical cues impact gender participation in computer science
People can make decisions to join a group based solely on exposure to that group's physical environment. Four studies demonstrate that the gender difference in interest in computer science is influenced by exposure to environments associated with computer scientists. In Study 1, simply changing the objects in a computer science classroom from those considered stereotypical of computer science (e.g., Star Trek poster, video games) to objects not c…
Le Rift est-africain: Une singularité plurielle
De la Corne de l’Afrique aux Grands Lacs, de l’Éthiopie au Mozambique, le Rift est-africain s’étend en une succession de dépressions, de hauts plateaux, de lacs et de volcans, le long d’une fracture majeure du continent africain. Tel un grand livre ouvert, le Rift s’offre comme un vaste laboratoire naturel permettant de retracer l’histoire de notre planète, de comprendre l’évolution de l’écorce terrestre, la formation des océans et des volcans. L…
Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions
This research demonstrates that people at risk of devaluation based on group membership are attuned to cues that signal social identity contingencies--judgments, stereotypes, opportunities, restrictions, and treatments that are tied to one's social identity in a given setting. In 3 experiments, African American professionals were attuned to minority representation and diversity philosophy cues when they were presented as a part of workplace setti…
A nation challenged: The impact of foreign threat on America's tolerance for diversity
Three experiments investigated how perceived foreign threats to the United States can influence Americans' endorsement of assimilation and multiculturalism as models for foreign and domestic intergroup relations. The initial study, conducted during the 6-month anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11), discovered that a diverse group of Americans preferred assimilation as a foreign policy and multiculturalism as a domestic p…
Towards a Flexible Labour Market: Labour Legislation and Regulation since the 1990s (Oxford Monographs on Labour Law)
This book deals with the development of employment legislation and policy in the United Kingdom during the period from the early 1990s until 2006. The core of the work consists of a critical analysis of the policy and legislation of the ‘New Labour’ governments headed by Tony Blair, and considers both domestically-driven initiatives and those governments' responses to employment initiatives stemming from the social policy of the European Communit…
Spectacular Miracles. Images of Supernatural Power from Northwest Italy
Kafka's Lesson, Blanchot's Itinerary
Molluscan and ostracod biostrati graphy of Holocene tufa in the Test valley at Bossington, Hampshire, UK
Holocene tufa deposits in the Test valley, Hampshire, UK, have been examined as part of a wider project into prehistoric activity and landscape change in the central southern chalklands. Molluscan and ostracod analysis on three tufa sequences shows that the tufa began developing around 9300 BP in open marsh/open woodland environment. Although one of the sequences (Boss 10) demonstrates a wooded environment throughout, another sequence (Boss 360n/…
Clearing the Air: Identity Safety Moderates the Effects of Stereotype Threat on Women's Leadership Aspirations
Exposing participants to gender-stereotypic TV commercials designed to elicit the female stereotype, the present research explored whether vulnerability to stereotype threat could persuade women to avoid leadership roles in favor of nonthreatening subordinate roles. Study 1 confirmed that exposure to the stereotypic commercials undermined women's aspirations on a subsequent leadership task. Study 2 established that varying the identity safety of …
Woodland clearance in the Mesolithic: The Social Aspects
Did Mesolithic people regard the woodland as a wilderness or park? Previous models have portrayed the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic as in tune with nature and making use of clearings to attract game. Using equally valid analogies, the authors propose a more hostile landscape that was conceived and managed with clearings and paths to help allay its menacing character
Ambient belonging: How stereotypical cues impact gender participation in computer science
People can make decisions to join a group based solely on exposure to that group's physical environment. Four studies demonstrate that the gender difference in interest in computer science is influenced by exposure to environments associated with computer scientists. In Study 1, simply changing the objects in a computer science classroom from those considered stereotypical of computer science (e.g., Star Trek poster, video games) to objects not c…
Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions
This research demonstrates that people at risk of devaluation based on group membership are attuned to cues that signal social identity contingencies--judgments, stereotypes, opportunities, restrictions, and treatments that are tied to one's social identity in a given setting. In 3 experiments, African American professionals were attuned to minority representation and diversity philosophy cues when they were presented as a part of workplace setti…
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological Differences
Despite being a defining issue in the culture war, the political psychology of abortion attitudes remains poorly understood. We address this oversight by reviewing existing literature and integrating new analyses of several large‐scale, cross‐sectional, and longitudinal datasets to identify the demographic and ideological correlates of abortion attitudes. Our review and new analyses indicate that abortion support is increasing modestly over time …
Clearing the Air: Identity Safety Moderates the Effects of Stereotype Threat on Women's Leadership Aspirations
Exposing participants to gender-stereotypic TV commercials designed to elicit the female stereotype, the present research explored whether vulnerability to stereotype threat could persuade women to avoid leadership roles in favor of nonthreatening subordinate roles. Study 1 confirmed that exposure to the stereotypic commercials undermined women's aspirations on a subsequent leadership task. Study 2 established that varying the identity safety of …
Selectively friending: Racial stereotypicality and social rejection
Woodland clearance in the Mesolithic: The Social Aspects
Did Mesolithic people regard the woodland as a wilderness or park? Previous models have portrayed the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic as in tune with nature and making use of clearings to attract game. Using equally valid analogies, the authors propose a more hostile landscape that was conceived and managed with clearings and paths to help allay its menacing character
The dynamic time course of stereotype activation: Activation, dissipation, and resurrection
Stereotypes activated upon initial exposure to a stereotyped individual may dissipate as the exposure continues. Participants observing a videotaped interview with a Black person showed activation of the stereotype of Black people following 15 s of observation but not following 12 min of observation. However, the discovery of a disagreement with the stereotyped individual may bring the dissipated stereotype back to mind. Participants who discover…
A nation challenged: The impact of foreign threat on America's tolerance for diversity
Three experiments investigated how perceived foreign threats to the United States can influence Americans' endorsement of assimilation and multiculturalism as models for foreign and domestic intergroup relations. The initial study, conducted during the 6-month anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11), discovered that a diverse group of Americans preferred assimilation as a foreign policy and multiculturalism as a domestic p…
Scratches in the earth: The underworld as a theme in British prehistory, with particular reference to the neolithic and earlier bronze age
A number of examples where authors have invoked the concept of an underworld in explaining various prehistoric activities are catalogued and considered. In drawing this material together it is hoped that the case for exploring the underworld as a general theme in pre‐Iron Age Britain is made. In addition, the usefulness of looking at various prehistoric activities from the perspective of the underworld is considered. In particular, the phenomenon…
Evaluating late-Holocene relative sea-level change in the Somerset Levels, southwest Britain
Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) change is investigated at Nyland Hill (Somerset Levels). The lithostratigraphy comprises turfa peat underlying marine clay, both onlapping a sloping Upper Palaeozoic basement. The altitude of the peat-clay contact ranges from 2.42 to 4.52 m OD, becoming lower down basement slope, yet 14 C dates of three samples taken laterally along the contact at different altitudes yield similar ages (3640-3330, 3715-3460, 3725…
Numerical Analysis of Subfossil Wet-Ground Molluscan Taxocenes from Overbank Alluvium at Kingsmead Bridge, Wiltshire
The Appropriation of the Material of Places in the Landscape: The case of tufa and springs
Springs have long been recognized as being significant places in the landscape, and there is ample evidence of later-prehistoric and Roman activity at spring sites. The Christian appropriation of springs as 'places', either indirectly by assigning their origin to saints, or directly by building chapels and churches on spring-head sites, is also well evidenced. The possibility that the material of petrifying springs - tufa - was both transplanted …
Pollen and mollusc records for environmental change in central Spain during the mid- and late Holocene
The central part of the Iberian Peninsula has few radiocarbon dated records of vegetation and climatic history for the Holocene. Extinct and active tufa-forming sites occur along the northwestern margin of the Sierra de Alcaraz. Tufas are often closely associated with the remains of plants and animals, and two extinct systems near the settlements of El Jardin and Alcaraz have yielded a record of environmental history that spans much of the last 6…
Making a significant place: Excavations at the Late Mesolithic site of Langley’s Lane, Midsomer Norton, Bath and North-East Somerset
Excavations at the site of Langley’s Lane, Bath and North-East Somerset, have revealed an important sequence of Late Mesolithic activity focused around an active tufa spring. The sequence of activity starts off as an aurochs kill and primary butchery site. Culturally appropriate depositional practices occur through the placement of a selection of bone in the wetland of the spring and the digging of pits around the spring margins. The spring at La…
Uneasiness: The line between Sterne's novel and Locke's Essay
The paper notes the tendency and temptation for scholars and critics to find a justification in the novel for silencing or categorising Locke, and for lampooning or reducing to absurdity the project and the arguments of the Essay. It argues that such approaches can miss what is most interesting in the novel’s indebtedness to the Essay, and offers a reading of a famous sequence where Walter, Toby, and Tristram mention, quote, present, rearrange an…
Molluscan and ostracod biostrati graphy of Holocene tufa in the Test valley at Bossington, Hampshire, UK
Holocene tufa deposits in the Test valley, Hampshire, UK, have been examined as part of a wider project into prehistoric activity and landscape change in the central southern chalklands. Molluscan and ostracod analysis on three tufa sequences shows that the tufa began developing around 9300 BP in open marsh/open woodland environment. Although one of the sequences (Boss 10) demonstrates a wooded environment throughout, another sequence (Boss 360n/…
Molluscan Total Assemblages across a Woodland–Grassland Boundary and their Palaeoenvironmental Relevance
Molluscan total assemblages across a woodland-grassland boundary are described and analysed using a variety of numerical techniques. These demonstrate that although the Mollusca respond to the vegetation boundaries their response does not exactly parallel that of vegetation structure. In particular, some shade-preferential species have encroached from woodland into adjacent grassland, degree of encroachment being an individual species characteris…
The Pantheon: Triumph of Rome or Triumph of Compromise
Paul Davies, David Hemsoll, Mark Wilson Jones; The Pantheon: Triumph of Rome or Triumph of Compromise?, Art History, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 June 1987, Pages
Heinrich Von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas ‐peter Hafftiz's Märckische Chronic: A Comparison of Novelle and Source Material With Particular Regard to Medieval Legal Conceptions
The Human Organism and the World of Life
The Human Organism and the World of Life." The Journal of Higher Education, 12(7), pp. 399–400
Notes the Criminal Law Act 1967
The Debate on Eternal Punishment in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
IN HIS DICTIONARY Dr. Johnson defines religion as Virtue, as founded upon reverence of God, and expectation of future rewards and punishments. The extent to which this expectation was supposed to govern conduct in this life was very much a bone of contention in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In his valuable book The Decline of Hell, D. P. Walker deals with the debate on eternal torment, from its inception up to and through the sev…
Law Making in the Industrial Court
"Close-Relationship" in the Uralian Languages
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Employee Representation on Company Boards and Participation in Corporate Planning
Grunwick in the House of Lords
The Pantheon: Triumph of Rome or Triumph of Compromise
Paul Davies, David Hemsoll, Mark Wilson Jones; The Pantheon: Triumph of Rome or Triumph of Compromise?, Art History, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 June 1987, Pages
Heinrich Von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas ‐peter Hafftiz's Märckische Chronic: A Comparison of Novelle and Source Material With Particular Regard to Medieval Legal Conceptions
New Physics
The Double Life of Alberti's Column
Leon Battista Alberti. On the Art of Building in Ten Books , translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, Robert Tavernor , London and Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1988, 442 pp., 69 b. and w. illus., £40.50
Three Anglo-American Radicals, and the Dilemmas of Syndicalism and Social Democracy
These three books are part of a welcome new series of short, pithy biographies of leading figures in the European and American socialist and labour movements, written by scholars who have been drawn from both sides of the Atlantic. There are some methodological differences between them. 'Big Bill' Haywood is a lively synthesis written by a senior scholar which draws only on previously published work. Paul Davies' AJ. Cook is based on the author's…
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Telling Tales: Notes on Heidegger’s “Career,” the “Heidegger Affair,” and the Assumptions of Narrativity
God, Creation and Cobe
God, Creation and Cobe
Physics and our View of the World
One of the central questions of physics is whether or not a Theory of Everything is possible. Many physicists believe that such a theory might be attainable, a belief which has led to speculation that we might one day 'know the mind of God'. But what would be the philosophical implications of having a blueprint for the Universe? In this fascinating book, a group of distinguished physicists and philosophers examine not only the claims of modern ph…
Crowds, psychology and politics, 1871–1899
Centres and peripheries in Europe: The Welsh experience
L'A. presente un bref resume sur les recents changements intervenus en Europe et s'attarde plus particulierement sur la situation linguistique du gallois
Labour Legislation and Public Policy: A Contemporary History
Collective laissez-faire full employment and the postwar consensus 1945-1951 the easy decade 1951-1961 modernization and experiments with planning 1961-1969 industrial justice and the individual worker 1968-1974 the end of agreement - collective labour law 1964-1970 the failed revolution - collective labour law 1970-1974 the social contract 1974-1979 reducing the power of trade unions 1979-1990 restructuring the labour economy 1979-1990 conclusio…
Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and ethnic origin
Our results suggest that C. pneumoniae infection may be more prevalent among Afro-Caribbean than among Caucasian people, and that Asians may lie somewhere between them in this respect. The behaviour of this pathogen in different ethnic groups deserves further investigation. Future studies of this organism should give due attention to the ethnic origins of patients
Evaluating late-Holocene relative sea-level change in the Somerset Levels, southwest Britain
Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) change is investigated at Nyland Hill (Somerset Levels). The lithostratigraphy comprises turfa peat underlying marine clay, both onlapping a sloping Upper Palaeozoic basement. The altitude of the peat-clay contact ranges from 2.42 to 4.52 m OD, becoming lower down basement slope, yet 14 C dates of three samples taken laterally along the contact at different altitudes yield similar ages (3640-3330, 3715-3460, 3725…
Pollen and mollusc records for environmental change in central Spain during the mid- and late Holocene
The central part of the Iberian Peninsula has few radiocarbon dated records of vegetation and climatic history for the Holocene. Extinct and active tufa-forming sites occur along the northwestern margin of the Sierra de Alcaraz. Tufas are often closely associated with the remains of plants and animals, and two extinct systems near the settlements of El Jardin and Alcaraz have yielded a record of environmental history that spans much of the last 6…
Numerical Analysis of Subfossil Wet-Ground Molluscan Taxocenes from Overbank Alluvium at Kingsmead Bridge, Wiltshire
Psychology (19 works) · Art (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works)