C Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 23202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2514-5372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What Childhood Leaves Behind
This article challenges the idea that cognitive ability uniformly predicts prosocial traits. Using data from a large, nationally representative U.K. sample ( N = 24,140), we test a moderated mediation model in which childhood disadvantage is associated with generalized trust both directly and indirectly via cognitive ability, while also moderating the association between cognitive ability and trust. We find that childhood disadvantage is associat…
Asymmetric Anticipatory Emotions and Economic Preferences
We are often preoccupied with the future, experiencing dread at the thought of future misery and savoring the thought of future pleasure. Prior lab studies have found that these anticipatory emotions influence decision‐making. In this article, using economic survey data to estimate individual differences in anticipatory emotions, we find that the tendency to feel displeasure from anticipating future losses outweighs the pleasure from anticipating…
Looking on the (B)right Side of Life
It is a puzzle why humans tend toward unrealistic optimism, as it can lead to excessively risky behavior and a failure to take precautionary action. Using data from a large nationally representative U.K. sample ( N = 36 , 312 ) , our claim is that optimism bias is partly a consequence of low cognition—as measured by a broad range of cognitive skills, including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning. We operationalize unre…
IQ, genes, and miscalibrated expectations
Almost all formal models of decision making under uncertainty require agents to judge the likelihood of relevant uncertainties. Typically, decisions are best made when these judgments are accurate. In the context of probabilistic subjective survival expectations, from a nationally representative English sample of participants aged over 50 ( N = 3,946), we test whether IQ is associated with calibration. We find strong evidence that high-IQ respond…
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk
Systematic differences in the attitudes of men and women towards risk is well established. In this paper, we investigate the joint role of two prominent psychological characteristics in explaining this difference. Our starting point is that risk assessments can be thought of, in general terms, to combine beliefs about the probability of negative outcomes occurring with a subjective valuation of how painful that negative outcome would be. Exploiti…
Neither an Optimist Nor a Pessimist Be
This article speaks to the classic view that mental health requires accurate self-perception. Using a representative British sample ( N = 1,601) it finds that, as measured by two established well-being indicators, those with mistaken expectations, whether optimistic or pessimistic, do worse than realists. We index unrealistic optimism as the difference between financial expectations and financial realizations measured annually over 18 years. The …
Getting into the ‘Giving Habit’
Scholarship on volunteering has paid insufficient attention to how experiences of volunteering in the past affect current and future participation. The importance of this relationship is emphasized by the introduction of public policies across the globe focusing on national service programmes and community service in schools with the underlying intention of inducing ongoing pro-social behavior. Using the UK longitudinal data, this article analyze…
How Persistent Is Generalised Trust
There are at least two competing views on the foundations of generalised trust: experiential and cultural. The experiential perspective emphasises that trust is fragile and remains open to environmental influences throughout life, whilst the cultural perspective asserts that trust is a stable trait established early in pre-adult life through intergenerational transmission mechanisms. Utilising an innovative methodology applied to a major UK longi…
Understanding the Perception of the 'Migrant Work Ethic
Over the last decade, the UK has experienced unprecedented increases in migration associated with the 2004 A8 expansion of the European Union. These migrant workers have been praised by managers in the UK, who have frequently stated that they perceive these workers to have a strong 'work ethic' when measured on aspects such as absence from work rates. This article examines this perceived migrant 'work ethic' by analysing worker absence data from …
Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis
Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK
Dawson C., Henley A. and Latreille P. Individual motives for choosing self-employment in the UK: does region matter?, Regional Studies. Regional entrepreneurship policy is often framed in terms of spatial shortcomings in entrepreneurial culture. However, differences in why individuals choose self-employment may reflect structure rather than culture. This paper investigates UK data for 1999–2001 on the reported motives for choosing self-employment…
Progress and Religion
Enquiries into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
Erik Satie’s Sententious Writings
Screening for tuberculosis in jail and clinic follow-up after release
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe tuberculosis (TB) screening and preventive therapy in the San Francisco County Jail and to measure the follow-up rate at the public health department TB clinic. METHODS: The records of male inmates screened for 6 months in 1994 were reviewed. Those prescribed isoniazid and released before therapy ended were matched with TB clinic records. Inmates were considered to have followed up if they cam…
Symposium on Anglo-Saxon settlement and landscape
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"Mr. Lawler on "Christian Culture
Historical Atlas and Gazetteer
Journal Article Historical Atlas and Gazetteer: A Study of History. Vol. XI Get access Historical Atlas and Gazetteer: A Study of History. Vol. XI. By Arnold J. Toynbee and Edward D. Myers. London, New York, Toronto, Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1959. x+257 pp. Maps. 35s. Christopher Dawson Christopher Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs…
An Historian's Approach to Religion. Based on Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the Years 1952 and 1953
Journal Article An Historian's Approach to Religion. Based on Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the Years 1952 and 1953 Get access An Historian's Approach to Religion. Based on Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the Years 1952 and 1953. By Arnold Toynbee. London, Oxford University Press, 1956. ix+316 pp. Index. 83⁄4′′×53⁄4′′. 21s. Christopher Dawson Christopher Dawson Search for other works by …
The Birth of Democracy
The origins of modern democracy are so closely bound up with the history of liberalism that it is a matter of considerable difficulty to disentangle them and to distinguish their distinctive contributions to the common political tradition of modern Western culture. For this question also involves that of the relation between the three revolutions, the English, the American, and the French, which transformed the Europe of the ancien régime, with i…
The Dynamics of World History
A Reply to Father Musurillo
The Mongol Mission. Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Toynbee's Study of History
Toynbee's Study of History: The Place of Civilizations in History Get access Christopher Dawson Christopher Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 1955, Pages 149–158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604328 Published: 01 April 1955
The Historic Origins of Liberalism
The history of the secularization of modern culture has yet to be written, and the reasons for this are easy enough to understand. For on the one hand, the mind of the secularized majority has been so deeply affected by the process of secularization that it cannot view that process in an objective historical manner, while on the other, the religious minority has been forced into an attitude of negative opposition which is no less unfavorable to d…
The Mongol Mission. Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
How Persistent Is Generalised Trust
There are at least two competing views on the foundations of generalised trust: experiential and cultural. The experiential perspective emphasises that trust is fragile and remains open to environmental influences throughout life, whilst the cultural perspective asserts that trust is a stable trait established early in pre-adult life through intergenerational transmission mechanisms. Utilising an innovative methodology applied to a major UK longi…
Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis
Understanding the Perception of the 'Migrant Work Ethic
Over the last decade, the UK has experienced unprecedented increases in migration associated with the 2004 A8 expansion of the European Union. These migrant workers have been praised by managers in the UK, who have frequently stated that they perceive these workers to have a strong 'work ethic' when measured on aspects such as absence from work rates. This article examines this perceived migrant 'work ethic' by analysing worker absence data from …
Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK
Dawson C., Henley A. and Latreille P. Individual motives for choosing self-employment in the UK: does region matter?, Regional Studies. Regional entrepreneurship policy is often framed in terms of spatial shortcomings in entrepreneurial culture. However, differences in why individuals choose self-employment may reflect structure rather than culture. This paper investigates UK data for 1999–2001 on the reported motives for choosing self-employment…
Getting into the ‘Giving Habit’
Scholarship on volunteering has paid insufficient attention to how experiences of volunteering in the past affect current and future participation. The importance of this relationship is emphasized by the introduction of public policies across the globe focusing on national service programmes and community service in schools with the underlying intention of inducing ongoing pro-social behavior. Using the UK longitudinal data, this article analyze…
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk
Systematic differences in the attitudes of men and women towards risk is well established. In this paper, we investigate the joint role of two prominent psychological characteristics in explaining this difference. Our starting point is that risk assessments can be thought of, in general terms, to combine beliefs about the probability of negative outcomes occurring with a subjective valuation of how painful that negative outcome would be. Exploiti…
Screening for tuberculosis in jail and clinic follow-up after release
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe tuberculosis (TB) screening and preventive therapy in the San Francisco County Jail and to measure the follow-up rate at the public health department TB clinic. METHODS: The records of male inmates screened for 6 months in 1994 were reviewed. Those prescribed isoniazid and released before therapy ended were matched with TB clinic records. Inmates were considered to have followed up if they cam…
The Birth of Democracy
The origins of modern democracy are so closely bound up with the history of liberalism that it is a matter of considerable difficulty to disentangle them and to distinguish their distinctive contributions to the common political tradition of modern Western culture. For this question also involves that of the relation between the three revolutions, the English, the American, and the French, which transformed the Europe of the ancien régime, with i…
The Historic Origins of Liberalism
The history of the secularization of modern culture has yet to be written, and the reasons for this are easy enough to understand. For on the one hand, the mind of the secularized majority has been so deeply affected by the process of secularization that it cannot view that process in an objective historical manner, while on the other, the religious minority has been forced into an attitude of negative opposition which is no less unfavorable to d…
The Christian View of History
The problem of the relations of Christianity to History has been very much complicated and, I think, obscured by the influence of nineteenth-century philosophy. Almost all the great idealist philosophers of that century, like Fichte and Schelhng and Hegel, constructed elaborate philosophies of history which had a very considerable influence on the historians, especially in Germany, and on the theologians also. All these systems were inspired or c…
Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism
Prevision in Religion
On the Development of Sociology in Relation to the Theory of Progress
The Land
Nowhere in the world has industrialism achieved such a complete victory as in England. Here alone do we see a Society which exists entirely by and for a cosmopolitan market, and which has lost the last remnants of economic self-sufficiency. And the disturbance of social equilibrium is the more profound because the England of the past was, more perhaps than any other country in Western Europe, an essentially agrarian State. The changes which have …
The Life of Civilisations
Herr Spengler and the Life of Civilisations
Rome
The Beginnings of Rome
A Scheme of British Culture Periods, and of Their Relation to European Cultural Developments
Progress and Decay in Ancient and Modern Civilisation
Catholicism and Economics
Never in the world's history have economic problems played such a large part in human life or had such a direct influence on human thought as at present. Economics have come to overshadow politics, to absorb into their sphere the entire social question. Even the man in the street has learnt that his personal welfare is intimately bound up with an economic system. He may be indifferent towards politics, Sceptical of the value of philosophy and sci…
Catholicism and Economics Part II
IThe infant Church was born at a time when the greatest state that the world has ever seen was attaining to its full development. The whole civilised world west of the Euphrates was united under a single head. The age of civil war, of social unrest, of the exploitation of the conquered peoples was at last over. Everywhere new cities were springing up, trade was flourishing and population increasing. It was 'the hour of the prince of this world,' …
Catholicism and Economics Part III
I.The establishment of such an economic order is demanded not only by external circumstances but also by a human need.In almost all the industrial countries the wage labourer is thoroughly disaffected. For almost a century he has been fed on the doctrines of political liberalism. He has been taught to believe in democracy, in the equal citizenship of all, and it is not surprising that he should have come at last to demand the application of these…
Religion and Primitive Culture
Civilisation and Morals
The Mystery of China
European Democracy and the New Economic Forces
The Making of Europe
A Keen Though Practical Enthusiast
Tributes to the Memory of Victor Branford. III
Prevision in Religion
Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism
The Yogi and the Commissar
Arthur Koestler is a writer of great intelligence and strong convictions, who has for years been carrying on a single-handed fight against that modern mechanical mystery of ingenuity, the Totalitarian State. He fights alone because he is a writer of the Left, even of the extreme Left, who refuses to accept the myths and rationalizations of his party and is just as outspoken in his condemnation of the totalitarianism of the Left as he is of the to…
The Christian View of History
The problem of the relations of Christianity to History has been very much complicated and, I think, obscured by the influence of nineteenth-century philosophy. Almost all the great idealist philosophers of that century, like Fichte and Schelhng and Hegel, constructed elaborate philosophies of history which had a very considerable influence on the historians, especially in Germany, and on the theologians also. All these systems were inspired or c…
The Historic Origins of Liberalism
The history of the secularization of modern culture has yet to be written, and the reasons for this are easy enough to understand. For on the one hand, the mind of the secularized majority has been so deeply affected by the process of secularization that it cannot view that process in an objective historical manner, while on the other, the religious minority has been forced into an attitude of negative opposition which is no less unfavorable to d…
Toynbee's Study of History
Toynbee's Study of History: The Place of Civilizations in History Get access Christopher Dawson Christopher Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 1955, Pages 149–158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604328 Published: 01 April 1955
A Reply to Father Musurillo
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