David A Savage
Biographic Data
| ID | 272623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Savage |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Savage |
| SIGNATURE | SAVAGE D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2110-4023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lemons in the university
This article investigates the impact that information has on subject selection, if the information available to students during subject selection was considered adequate and if this was related to the increasing number of students taking an academic shopping approach to selection. Applying the theory of asymmetric information to a survey of 413 undergraduate students, we ascertained the quality and usefulness of information that was available to …
Modelling and simulating a multi-modal and multi-dimensional technology interaction framework
Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare
Can Psychological Traits Explain Mobility Behavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The current COVID-19 pandemic is a global, exogenous shock, impacting individuals’ decision making and behavior allowing researchers to test theories of personality by exploring how traits, in conjunction with individual and societal differences, affect compliance and cooperation. Study 1 used Google mobility data and nation-level personality data from 31 countries, both before and after region-specific legislative interventions, finding that agr…
Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs
A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from economic, societal, historical, and cultural perspectives. In this contribution, we argue that as the disease spreads, we are able to harness a valuable key resource: people who have immunity to coronavirus. This vital resource must be effectively employed , it must be certified , it must be searched for, it must…
What Determines End-of-Life Attitudes? Revisiting the Dutch Experience
Dying for the cause
This article explores the impact that belief in an infinite afterlife has on end-of-life decisions, specifically on those viewed at the extreme, such as martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators. We extend a simplified expected utility-based model to include variations of infinitely rewarding afterlife's and explore how this may impact the expected utility and rationality of earthly actions and decisions of individuals when the expected utilit…
There and back again
Towards a complex model of disaster behaviour
This paper outlines why a move towards a complex adaptive systems model of behaviour is required if the goal is to generate better understanding of how individuals and groups interact with their environment in a disaster setting. To accomplish this objective, a bridge must be built between the broader social sciences and behavioural economics to incorporate discipline-specific insights that are needed to move towards complexity. This is only poss…
Non-Religious Pastoral Care
This ground-breaking book is a guide to non-religious pastoral care practice in healthcare, prisons, education, and the armed forces in the UK. It brings a new perspective to our understanding of care services traditionally offered by chaplaincy departments. The book charts the progress from a Christian to a multi-faith and on to a fully inclusive care service. Compelling evidence is presented showing strong and broad support for non-religious pa…
Those left behind
This paper examines the rationality of other regarding preferences on end-of-life decisions such as euthanasia and suicide, by extending the discounted future utility model. The discussion shows that individuals with other regarding preferences may act upon choices contrary to their ex-ante preferences, such that they are choosing to remain alive rather than opting for euthanasia or suicide. The policy extension is that individuals with close fri…
Gender Variations of Physiological and Psychological Strain Amongst Police Officers
Auswirkungen von Macht auf das Überleben in Extremsituationen
Who perished on the Titanic? The importance of social norms
This paper seeks to empirically identify what factors make it more or less likely for people to survive in a life-threatening situation. Three factors relate to individual attributes of the persons onboard: physical strength, economic resources, and nationality. Two relate to social aspects: social support and social norms. The Titanic disaster is a life-or-death situation. Otherwise-disregarded aspects of human nature become apparent in such a d…
Behavior under Extreme Conditions
During the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Two hours and 40 minutes later she sank, resulting in the loss of 1,501 lives-more than two-thirds of her 2,207 passengers and crew. This remains one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. For social scientists, evidence about how people behaved as the Titanic sunk offers a quasi-natural field experiment…
The unthinkable
Book reviewed in this issue. The unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes – and why Amanda Ripley
Behavior under Extreme Conditions
During the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Two hours and 40 minutes later she sank, resulting in the loss of 1,501 lives-more than two-thirds of her 2,207 passengers and crew. This remains one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. For social scientists, evidence about how people behaved as the Titanic sunk offers a quasi-natural field experiment…
Gender Variations of Physiological and Psychological Strain Amongst Police Officers
Towards a complex model of disaster behaviour
This paper outlines why a move towards a complex adaptive systems model of behaviour is required if the goal is to generate better understanding of how individuals and groups interact with their environment in a disaster setting. To accomplish this objective, a bridge must be built between the broader social sciences and behavioural economics to incorporate discipline-specific insights that are needed to move towards complexity. This is only poss…
Dying for the cause
This article explores the impact that belief in an infinite afterlife has on end-of-life decisions, specifically on those viewed at the extreme, such as martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators. We extend a simplified expected utility-based model to include variations of infinitely rewarding afterlife's and explore how this may impact the expected utility and rationality of earthly actions and decisions of individuals when the expected utilit…
Who perished on the Titanic? The importance of social norms
This paper seeks to empirically identify what factors make it more or less likely for people to survive in a life-threatening situation. Three factors relate to individual attributes of the persons onboard: physical strength, economic resources, and nationality. Two relate to social aspects: social support and social norms. The Titanic disaster is a life-or-death situation. Otherwise-disregarded aspects of human nature become apparent in such a d…
What Determines End-of-Life Attitudes? Revisiting the Dutch Experience
There and back again
Those left behind
This paper examines the rationality of other regarding preferences on end-of-life decisions such as euthanasia and suicide, by extending the discounted future utility model. The discussion shows that individuals with other regarding preferences may act upon choices contrary to their ex-ante preferences, such that they are choosing to remain alive rather than opting for euthanasia or suicide. The policy extension is that individuals with close fri…
Auswirkungen von Macht auf das Überleben in Extremsituationen
The unthinkable
Book reviewed in this issue. The unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes – and why Amanda Ripley
The unthinkable
Book reviewed in this issue. The unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes – and why Amanda Ripley
Gender Variations of Physiological and Psychological Strain Amongst Police Officers
Auswirkungen von Macht auf das Überleben in Extremsituationen
Who perished on the Titanic? The importance of social norms
This paper seeks to empirically identify what factors make it more or less likely for people to survive in a life-threatening situation. Three factors relate to individual attributes of the persons onboard: physical strength, economic resources, and nationality. Two relate to social aspects: social support and social norms. The Titanic disaster is a life-or-death situation. Otherwise-disregarded aspects of human nature become apparent in such a d…
Behavior under Extreme Conditions
During the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Two hours and 40 minutes later she sank, resulting in the loss of 1,501 lives-more than two-thirds of her 2,207 passengers and crew. This remains one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. For social scientists, evidence about how people behaved as the Titanic sunk offers a quasi-natural field experiment…
Those left behind
This paper examines the rationality of other regarding preferences on end-of-life decisions such as euthanasia and suicide, by extending the discounted future utility model. The discussion shows that individuals with other regarding preferences may act upon choices contrary to their ex-ante preferences, such that they are choosing to remain alive rather than opting for euthanasia or suicide. The policy extension is that individuals with close fri…
Non-Religious Pastoral Care
This ground-breaking book is a guide to non-religious pastoral care practice in healthcare, prisons, education, and the armed forces in the UK. It brings a new perspective to our understanding of care services traditionally offered by chaplaincy departments. The book charts the progress from a Christian to a multi-faith and on to a fully inclusive care service. Compelling evidence is presented showing strong and broad support for non-religious pa…
There and back again
Towards a complex model of disaster behaviour
This paper outlines why a move towards a complex adaptive systems model of behaviour is required if the goal is to generate better understanding of how individuals and groups interact with their environment in a disaster setting. To accomplish this objective, a bridge must be built between the broader social sciences and behavioural economics to incorporate discipline-specific insights that are needed to move towards complexity. This is only poss…
Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs
A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from economic, societal, historical, and cultural perspectives. In this contribution, we argue that as the disease spreads, we are able to harness a valuable key resource: people who have immunity to coronavirus. This vital resource must be effectively employed , it must be certified , it must be searched for, it must…
What Determines End-of-Life Attitudes? Revisiting the Dutch Experience
Dying for the cause
This article explores the impact that belief in an infinite afterlife has on end-of-life decisions, specifically on those viewed at the extreme, such as martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators. We extend a simplified expected utility-based model to include variations of infinitely rewarding afterlife's and explore how this may impact the expected utility and rationality of earthly actions and decisions of individuals when the expected utilit…
Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare
Can Psychological Traits Explain Mobility Behavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The current COVID-19 pandemic is a global, exogenous shock, impacting individuals’ decision making and behavior allowing researchers to test theories of personality by exploring how traits, in conjunction with individual and societal differences, affect compliance and cooperation. Study 1 used Google mobility data and nation-level personality data from 31 countries, both before and after region-specific legislative interventions, finding that agr…
Lemons in the university
This article investigates the impact that information has on subject selection, if the information available to students during subject selection was considered adequate and if this was related to the increasing number of students taking an academic shopping approach to selection. Applying the theory of asymmetric information to a survey of 413 undergraduate students, we ascertained the quality and usefulness of information that was available to …
Modelling and simulating a multi-modal and multi-dimensional technology interaction framework
Psychology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Engineering (4 works)