Christopher J Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 182207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher J Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher J |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5814-5104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pubertal Self‐Efficacy
INTRODUCTION: As adolescents navigate the complex transition of puberty, understanding factors that can buffer against psychopathology becomes increasingly important. This study introduces pubertal self-efficacy, defined as adolescents' confidence in their ability to manage the challenges associated with puberty, as a novel protective factor for youth. We hypothesized that higher levels of pubertal self-efficacy would mitigate associations of bot…
The Identity Disclosure Matrix
Psychological inquiry into identity has focused predominantly on its construction, contents, or consequences for individuals. However, often overlooked in identity research agendas are the motivations that drive people to disclose their identities to others. Contemporary research suggests that identity has become a psychosocial currency individuals can exchange to navigate social interactions toward desired aims. Here, we introduce the Identity D…
On Art and the Limits of Dissent
Since June 2022, activists have been targeting renowned museums and galleries to draw attention to the climate crisis, with protests that often involve the apparent destruction of artworks. These actions have been condemned in global media outlets and are frequently represented as counterproductive and lacking in logic. We contend there is a logic in the actions of these political dissenters that goes beyond a simple attempt to secure media and p…
So Help Me God’? Does oath swearing in courtroom scenarios impact trial outcomes
In countries such as Britain and the US, court witnesses must declare they will provide truthful evidence and are often compelled to publicly choose between religious (“oath”) and secular (“affirmation”) versions of this declaration. Might defendants who opt to swear an oath enjoy more favourable outcomes than those who choose to affirm? Two preliminary, pre‐registered survey studies using minimal vignettes (Study 1, N = 443; Study 2, N = 913) in…
Increasing climate efficacy is not a surefire means to promoting climate commitment
People’s perception of their own efficacy is a critical precursor for adaptive behavioural responses to the threat posed by climate change. The present study investigated whether components of climate efficacy could be enhanced by short video messages. An online study (N = 161) compared groups of participants who received messages focusing on individual or collective behaviour. Relative to a control group, these groups showed increased levels of …
Thinking about climate change
We introduce this special issue on Thinking about Climate Change by reflecting on the role of psychology in responding adaptively to catastrophic global threats. By way of illustration we compare the threat posed by climate change with the extinction-level threat considered in the recent film Don’t Look Up [McKay, A. (Director). (2021). Don’t Look Up [Film]. Hyperobject Industries]. Human psychology is a critical element in both scenarios. The pa…
Assessing the Effectiveness of Structured Word Inquiry for Students in Grades 3 and 5 With Reading and Spelling Difficulties
Research syntheses have demonstrated that morphological instruction can improve the literacy skills of poor readers and spellers. However, studies have used a wide variety of training methods. Questions remain about what type of morphological instruction is most effective and under which circumstances. In this study, we conducted a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of Structured Word Inquiry for poor readers and spellers. S…
Evidence from masked-priming that initial identification of brand names is via abstract letter identities
Although visual-word recognition is often assumed to proceed on the basis of case-invariant letter representations, previous research has shown a role for letter-case in recognizing brand names. One recent study reported early effects of letter-case in a brand-decision task using masked primes (Pereaet al., 2015,British Journal of Psychology, 106, 162). The present study attempts to replicate this finding using brand names typically presented in …
Labor Justice across the Americas
In this interesting study of labor courts in the Americas, the editors Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio have tried to bring together stand-alone studies that address the universal questions of why and how these courts emerged. The point of the study, as Palacio states in the introduction, is to identify “common patterns” while paying close attention to the “particularities of national cases” (p. 2). The editors chose labor courts as the topic be…
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
Book Review| May 01 2016 American Labor's Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War American Labor's Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War. Waters, Robert AnthonyJr. and Van Goethem, Geert, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013xi + 302 pp., $100.00 (cloth) Colin J. Davis Colin J. Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2):…
James Sanders Day. Diamonds in the Rough
In this sweeping study of the history of the Cahaba coal field in Alabama, James Sanders Day attempts to synthesize different historical approaches. As he states in the introduction, his multifaceted methodology will ensure that “engineers and scientists, entrepreneurs and miners occupy the same canvas” (p. 1). Day only partially succeeds in his quest. He argues that most studies have focused on the more productive Warrior coal fields in north ce…
Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812
A Renegade Union
Journal Article A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism Get access Lisa Phillips. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. xvi, 231 pp. $50.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau215 Published: 01 June 2014
Is that what Bayesians believe? Reply to Griffiths, Chater, Norris, and Pouget (2012)
Griffiths, Chater, Norris, and Pouget (2012) argue that we have misunderstood the Bayesian approach. In their view, it is rarely the case that researchers are making claims that performance in a given task is near optimal, and few, if any, researchers adopt the theoretical Bayesian perspective according to which the mind or brain is actually performing (or approximating) Bayesian computations. Rather, researchers are said to adopt something more …
Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience
According to Bayesian theories in psychology and neuroscience, minds and brains are (near) optimal in solving a wide range of tasks. We challenge this view and argue that more traditional, non-Bayesian approaches are more promising. We make 3 main arguments. First, we show that the empirical evidence for Bayesian theories in psychology is weak. This weakness relates to the many arbitrary ways that priors, likelihoods, and utility functions can be…
The spatial coding model of visual word identification.
Visual word identification requires readers to code the identity and order of the letters in a word and match this code against previously learned codes. Current models of this lexical matching process posit context-specific letter codes in which letter representations are tied to either specific serial positions or specific local contexts (e.g., letter clusters). The spatial coding model described here adopts a different approach to letter posit…
Transatlantic Danger
The Politics of Ports
The recent controversy over a foreign-owned company running a US port brought attention to the creeping privatization of work in ports worldwide. Since the 1980s, there has been a head-long rush to privatize ports. The pace can be best described as rapid and chaotic. For some economists privatization is seen as a method to increase efficiency. But the process has substantial critics. For many privatization is perceived as problematic. There is ev…
Shape or Fight?”
The purpose of this essay is to examine the working world of African-American longshoremen in New York and how they came to terms with racist hiring practices. Some African-American longshoremen retained a degree of institutional freedom with their Jim Crow Local #968, but their inability to control a pier, and thereby guarantee steady work, resulted in a precarious situation of constantly searching for work. Nonetheless, Local 968 acted as a cat…
It Is Union and Liberty
New York City and London Dockworkers
Is It Union and Liberty
Journal Article It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW. Ed. by Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xii, 184 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-0999-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 08173-1000-2.) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Comparative International History of Dock Labour, c. 1790–1970
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Racializing Class, Classifying Race
The conference "Racializing Class, Classifying Race" held at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford on July 11-13, 1997, was by any measure a resounding success. Due largely to the quality of the papers and the comments of discussants and audience members alike, the conference stimulated widespread discussion-but not agreement. The theme was a propitious one, coming at a time when race and the analytical model of "whiteness" have captured cen…
Power at Odds
Journal Article Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike. By Colin J. Davis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiv, 244 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02312-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06612-X) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1…
Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience
According to Bayesian theories in psychology and neuroscience, minds and brains are (near) optimal in solving a wide range of tasks. We challenge this view and argue that more traditional, non-Bayesian approaches are more promising. We make 3 main arguments. First, we show that the empirical evidence for Bayesian theories in psychology is weak. This weakness relates to the many arbitrary ways that priors, likelihoods, and utility functions can be…
Is that what Bayesians believe? Reply to Griffiths, Chater, Norris, and Pouget (2012)
Griffiths, Chater, Norris, and Pouget (2012) argue that we have misunderstood the Bayesian approach. In their view, it is rarely the case that researchers are making claims that performance in a given task is near optimal, and few, if any, researchers adopt the theoretical Bayesian perspective according to which the mind or brain is actually performing (or approximating) Bayesian computations. Rather, researchers are said to adopt something more …
Shape or Fight?”
The purpose of this essay is to examine the working world of African-American longshoremen in New York and how they came to terms with racist hiring practices. Some African-American longshoremen retained a degree of institutional freedom with their Jim Crow Local #968, but their inability to control a pier, and thereby guarantee steady work, resulted in a precarious situation of constantly searching for work. Nonetheless, Local 968 acted as a cat…
Bitter conflict
(1992). Bitter conflict: The 1922 railroad shopmen's strike. Labor History: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 433-455
The Identity Disclosure Matrix
Psychological inquiry into identity has focused predominantly on its construction, contents, or consequences for individuals. However, often overlooked in identity research agendas are the motivations that drive people to disclose their identities to others. Contemporary research suggests that identity has become a psychosocial currency individuals can exchange to navigate social interactions toward desired aims. Here, we introduce the Identity D…
Evidence from masked-priming that initial identification of brand names is via abstract letter identities
Although visual-word recognition is often assumed to proceed on the basis of case-invariant letter representations, previous research has shown a role for letter-case in recognizing brand names. One recent study reported early effects of letter-case in a brand-decision task using masked primes (Pereaet al., 2015,British Journal of Psychology, 106, 162). The present study attempts to replicate this finding using brand names typically presented in …
The Politics of Ports
The recent controversy over a foreign-owned company running a US port brought attention to the creeping privatization of work in ports worldwide. Since the 1980s, there has been a head-long rush to privatize ports. The pace can be best described as rapid and chaotic. For some economists privatization is seen as a method to increase efficiency. But the process has substantial critics. For many privatization is perceived as problematic. There is ev…
Michel Tournier Between Synthesis and Scarcity
Journal Article MICHEL TOURNIER BETWEEN SYNTHESIS AND SCARCITY Get access COLIN DAVIS COLIN DAVIS CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLII, Issue 3, July 1988, Pages 320–331, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLII.3.320 Published: 01 July 1988
Bitter conflict
(1992). Bitter conflict: The 1922 railroad shopmen's strike. Labor History: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 433-455
Eighth Biennial Southern Labor Studies Conference
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Heroes of Unwritten Story
Comparative International History of Dock Labour, c. 1790–1970
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Racializing Class, Classifying Race
The conference "Racializing Class, Classifying Race" held at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford on July 11-13, 1997, was by any measure a resounding success. Due largely to the quality of the papers and the comments of discussants and audience members alike, the conference stimulated widespread discussion-but not agreement. The theme was a propitious one, coming at a time when race and the analytical model of "whiteness" have captured cen…
Power at Odds
Journal Article Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike. By Colin J. Davis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiv, 244 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02312-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06612-X) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1…
Power at Odds
Power at Odds
New York City and London Dockworkers
Is It Union and Liberty
Journal Article It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW. Ed. by Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xii, 184 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8173-0999-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 08173-1000-2.) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
It Is Union and Liberty
Shape or Fight?”
The purpose of this essay is to examine the working world of African-American longshoremen in New York and how they came to terms with racist hiring practices. Some African-American longshoremen retained a degree of institutional freedom with their Jim Crow Local #968, but their inability to control a pier, and thereby guarantee steady work, resulted in a precarious situation of constantly searching for work. Nonetheless, Local 968 acted as a cat…
The Politics of Ports
The recent controversy over a foreign-owned company running a US port brought attention to the creeping privatization of work in ports worldwide. Since the 1980s, there has been a head-long rush to privatize ports. The pace can be best described as rapid and chaotic. For some economists privatization is seen as a method to increase efficiency. But the process has substantial critics. For many privatization is perceived as problematic. There is ev…
Transatlantic Danger
The spatial coding model of visual word identification.
Visual word identification requires readers to code the identity and order of the letters in a word and match this code against previously learned codes. Current models of this lexical matching process posit context-specific letter codes in which letter representations are tied to either specific serial positions or specific local contexts (e.g., letter clusters). The spatial coding model described here adopts a different approach to letter posit…
Is that what Bayesians believe? Reply to Griffiths, Chater, Norris, and Pouget (2012)
Griffiths, Chater, Norris, and Pouget (2012) argue that we have misunderstood the Bayesian approach. In their view, it is rarely the case that researchers are making claims that performance in a given task is near optimal, and few, if any, researchers adopt the theoretical Bayesian perspective according to which the mind or brain is actually performing (or approximating) Bayesian computations. Rather, researchers are said to adopt something more …
Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience
According to Bayesian theories in psychology and neuroscience, minds and brains are (near) optimal in solving a wide range of tasks. We challenge this view and argue that more traditional, non-Bayesian approaches are more promising. We make 3 main arguments. First, we show that the empirical evidence for Bayesian theories in psychology is weak. This weakness relates to the many arbitrary ways that priors, likelihoods, and utility functions can be…
Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812
A Renegade Union
Journal Article A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism Get access Lisa Phillips. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. xvi, 231 pp. $50.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau215 Published: 01 June 2014
James Sanders Day. Diamonds in the Rough
In this sweeping study of the history of the Cahaba coal field in Alabama, James Sanders Day attempts to synthesize different historical approaches. As he states in the introduction, his multifaceted methodology will ensure that “engineers and scientists, entrepreneurs and miners occupy the same canvas” (p. 1). Day only partially succeeds in his quest. He argues that most studies have focused on the more productive Warrior coal fields in north ce…
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
Book Review| May 01 2016 American Labor's Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War American Labor's Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War. Waters, Robert AnthonyJr. and Van Goethem, Geert, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013xi + 302 pp., $100.00 (cloth) Colin J. Davis Colin J. Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2):…
Evidence from masked-priming that initial identification of brand names is via abstract letter identities
Although visual-word recognition is often assumed to proceed on the basis of case-invariant letter representations, previous research has shown a role for letter-case in recognizing brand names. One recent study reported early effects of letter-case in a brand-decision task using masked primes (Pereaet al., 2015,British Journal of Psychology, 106, 162). The present study attempts to replicate this finding using brand names typically presented in …
Labor Justice across the Americas
In this interesting study of labor courts in the Americas, the editors Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio have tried to bring together stand-alone studies that address the universal questions of why and how these courts emerged. The point of the study, as Palacio states in the introduction, is to identify “common patterns” while paying close attention to the “particularities of national cases” (p. 2). The editors chose labor courts as the topic be…
Increasing climate efficacy is not a surefire means to promoting climate commitment
People’s perception of their own efficacy is a critical precursor for adaptive behavioural responses to the threat posed by climate change. The present study investigated whether components of climate efficacy could be enhanced by short video messages. An online study (N = 161) compared groups of participants who received messages focusing on individual or collective behaviour. Relative to a control group, these groups showed increased levels of …
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