Steven Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3771301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6314-6080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is there evidence for factorial invariance of the Covid Stress Scales? an analysis of North American and cross-cultural populations
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental health of more citizens globally than any previous modern viral outbreak. In response to the psychological challenges associated with COVID-19, the COVID Stress Scales (CSS) were developed to assess the presence and severity of COVID-related distress. The initial North American validation study of the CSS identified that the scale comprised five factors: danger and contamination fears, fear of socioeconom…
Cognitive Approaches to Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
This chapter focuses on cognitive models (also known as cognitive-behavioral models) of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders. The models posit that appraisals, dysfunctional beliefs, and maladaptive behaviors play important roles in the etiology and maintenance of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs). The chapter begins with an historical perspective in which the antecedents of the models are described. Contempo…
Exposure-Based Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Exposure and response prevention (E/RP) is one of the oldest and most effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder. The present chapter describes the empirical foundations, development, delivery, and latest research on E/RP. Commonly used methods and procedural variants of E/RP are described, along with the underlying mechanisms of action. The efficacy of E/RP in relation to other treatments is discussed, in addition to research on the …
Methodological challenges of researching an emerging scene
The process of researching a music scene retrospectively, even one which has recently formed, rests on a relatively simple ontological foundation; that the scene is broadly agreed – by both participants and observers – to already exist and to be available as an object for study, whether that proceeds on a musicological, sociological or geographical basis. But what if the scene is merely purported, suspected or intuited to be in the process of for…
Negative attitudes about facemasks during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study reports a comprehensive empirical investigation of the nature and correlates of anti-mask attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Accumulating evidence underscores the importance of facemasks, as worn by the general public, in limiting the spread of infection. Accordingly, mask wearing has become increasingly mandatory in public places such as stores and on public transit. Although the public has been generally adherent to mask wearing…
The lived experience of healthcare professionals working frontline during the 2003 Sars epidemic, 2009 H1N1 pandemic, 2012 Mers outbreak, and 2014 EVD epidemic
Covid stress syndrome
BACKGROUND: Research shows that the COVID Stress Scales have a robust multifactorial structure, representing five correlated facets of COVID-19-related distress: (a) Fear of the dangerousness of COVID-19, which includes fear of coming into contact with fomites potentially contaminated with SARSCoV2, (b) worry about socioeconomic costs of COVID-19 (e.g., worry about personal finances and disruption in the supply chain), (c) xenophobic fears that f…
Do pre-existing anxiety-related and mood disorders differentially impact Covid-19 stress responses and coping?
Coronaphobia
Development and initial validation of the Covid Stress Scales
Research and clinical observations suggest that during times of pandemic many people exhibit stress- or anxiety-related responses that include fear of becoming infected, fear of coming into contact with possibly contaminated objects or surfaces, fear of foreigners who might be carrying infection (i.e., disease-related xenophobia), fear of the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic, compulsive checking and reassurance-seeking regarding possib…
How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like Covid-19
Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators
Electoral Systems in Context
Colombia represents a rare case of a political context with a number of electoral system changes over a period of years. It serves as a natural experiment that demonstrates that party systems do react to changes in institutional parameters. There have been uninterrupted democratic elections that allow for long-term comparative study of the effects of electoral reform. From 1974 to 2014, several different basic electoral rules can be observed incl…
Electoral Systems in Context
The United States of America has one of the longest, continually functional electoral systems in the world. On one level, the system is seemingly simple, as it is based predominantly on plurality winners in the context of single-seat districts. However, its extensive usage of primary elections adds a nearly unique element to the process of filling elected office. This mechanism is used more extensively in the United States than in any other case.…
The State of Democracy in Colombia
Teaching and learning reflective practice in the action science/action inquiry tradition
Between the Guerrillas and the State
Colombian Voters and Ballot Structure
Response to Desmond Arias's Review of Voting Amid Violence
The fundamental point of contention between the works under review here (in my view) is whether or not the presence of systematic violence is primarily a feature or a bug of the given political system being studied. I do not mean this distinction in a normative sense, but rather an analytical one. In other words, should we view endemic political violence in ostensibly democratic states to be deviations from appropriate democratic behavior (i.e., …
Coca's Gone
Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity
Accumulating evidence suggests that anxiety sensitivity (fear of arousal-related sensations) plays an important role in many clinical conditions, particularly anxiety disorders. Research has increasingly focused on how the basic dimensions of anxiety sensitivity are related to various forms of psychopathology. Such work has been hampered because the original measure--the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI)--was not designed to be multidimensional. Su…
The Political Influence of African American Ministers
Since the days of slavery, some of the most influential political figures among African Americans have been members of the clergy. This political prominence of the clergy may have its origins in West Africa, where societal leaders have historically played both secular and religious roles
Political Culture and African Americans' Forgiveness of Elected Officials
A noticeable component of African American political behavior is a tendency to support some elected officials who were involved in earlier scandals. This political forgiveness has also been seen among urban white ethnics, whose political culture tolerated occasional misbehavior among elected officials, provided the officials worked to meet the material needs of their supporters. African Americans have similar expectations of their elected officia…
Primal Spirituality and the Onto/Phylo Fallacy
Many theorists-including Freud, Habermas and Wilber-have suggested that there are strong parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny, and that the development of the human species has followed the same basic pattern as the development of the individual from birth to adulthood. I discuss this view in relation to archaeological and anthropological knowledge of the world's "primal peoples." I look at the spiritual, moral, and social development of prim…
Oliver Twist Approaches Bumble, The Parish Beadle
Relationships with Severely Disabled People
This paper presents the perspective of nondisabled people who do not stigmatize, stereotype, and reject those with obvious disabilities. We look at how nondisabled people who are in caring and accepting relationships with severely disabled others define them. Although the disabled people in these relationships sometimes drool, soil themselves, and do not talk or walk—traits that most would consider highly undesirable—they are accepted by the nond…
The judged, not the judges
Let Them Eat Programs
Robert Bogdan, Steven Taylor, Bernard DeGrandpre, Sondra Haynes, Let Them Eat Programs: Attendants' Perspectives and Programming on Wards in State Schools, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jun., 1974), pp. 142-151
Colombian Voters and Ballot Structure
Appointing or Electing the Boston School Committee
In 1996, voters in Boston overwhelmingly supported maintaining an appointed school board. In the Black community, however, a majority supported a return to an elected board, which had been in place until 1992. This article focuses on why Blacks and Whites differed over the structure of the school board. Although the appointed board voted more favorably on issues of specific concern to the African American community, Blacks were disturbed by the l…
The State of Democracy in Colombia
Political Culture and African Americans' Forgiveness of Elected Officials
A noticeable component of African American political behavior is a tendency to support some elected officials who were involved in earlier scandals. This political forgiveness has also been seen among urban white ethnics, whose political culture tolerated occasional misbehavior among elected officials, provided the officials worked to meet the material needs of their supporters. African Americans have similar expectations of their elected officia…
Democratization in Latin America
It is an oft-recited but simplistic statement that all the countries in Latin America have a democratically elected leader save for Cuba. The veracity of that statement, regardless of its oversimplification, testifies to the remarkable transformation that swept the region in the 1980s and 1990s. But the fact that the statement requires qualifications indicates the complexity of democratization in Latin America and other third-wave democ-162
Family therapy for suicidal people
Family therapy has long been neglected as a form of intervention for suicidal people, despite the importance of family interaction patterns to the development and course of suicide death and suicide. behavior We describe a cognitive behvioral approach to family therapy for suicidal people. The relationship between family interactions and suicide is briefly reviewed, followed by a description of the cognitive-behavioral model that highlights strat…
Intonation Cues to Questions and Statements
The present study examined the extent to which perceptual differentiation between spoken questions and statements can be made on the basis of a small set of simple feature detectors. Neurophysiological studies have described “frequency sweep” detectors which might be fruitfully extended to this task. For a number of spoken contexts it was found that a good account of question/statement differentiation can be provided by a model incorporating dete…
Primitive mechanisms of accent perception
Let Them Eat Programs
Robert Bogdan, Steven Taylor, Bernard DeGrandpre, Sondra Haynes, Let Them Eat Programs: Attendants' Perspectives and Programming on Wards in State Schools, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jun., 1974), pp. 142-151
The judged, not the judges
Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
Defending Illusions
Based on participant observation and other qualitative data collected at 15 institutions for the mentally retarded, this study is directed to determining how institutional officials deal with outside criticism of their facilities. Over the past decade and a half, the legitimacy of institutions for the retarded has been challenged by professionals, courts, parent groups, and the media. Officials have reacted to outside criticism by developing new …
Exploring Laser Light
Inside Out
What does it mean to be ‘mentally retarded’? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two experts, ‘Ed Murphy’ and ‘Pattie Burt,’ for answers. Ed and Pattie, former inmates of institutions for the retarded, tell us in their own words
Intonation Cues to Questions and Statements
The present study examined the extent to which perceptual differentiation between spoken questions and statements can be made on the basis of a small set of simple feature detectors. Neurophysiological studies have described “frequency sweep” detectors which might be fruitfully extended to this task. For a number of spoken contexts it was found that a good account of question/statement differentiation can be provided by a model incorporating dete…
Primitive mechanisms of accent perception
Excavations at Bannaventa (Whilton Lodge, Northants.), 1970-71
Relationships with Severely Disabled People
This paper presents the perspective of nondisabled people who do not stigmatize, stereotype, and reject those with obvious disabilities. We look at how nondisabled people who are in caring and accepting relationships with severely disabled others define them. Although the disabled people in these relationships sometimes drool, soil themselves, and do not talk or walk—traits that most would consider highly undesirable—they are accepted by the nond…
Family therapy for suicidal people
Family therapy has long been neglected as a form of intervention for suicidal people, despite the importance of family interaction patterns to the development and course of suicide death and suicide. behavior We describe a cognitive behvioral approach to family therapy for suicidal people. The relationship between family interactions and suicide is briefly reviewed, followed by a description of the cognitive-behavioral model that highlights strat…
Beyond regulatory focus
Beyond regulatory focus
Predicting Intentions to Use Condoms
A meta‐analysis was conducted on 23 psychosocial predictors of intentions to use condoms. Data from 67 independent samples were included in the review. Findings demonstrated that demographic, sexual experience, and personality variables had small average correlations with intentions. Knowledge about HIV/AIDS and perceptions of the threat of disease were also weakly related to decisions about using condoms. Attitudes and subjective norms from the …
Appointing or Electing the Boston School Committee
In 1996, voters in Boston overwhelmingly supported maintaining an appointed school board. In the Black community, however, a majority supported a return to an elected board, which had been in place until 1992. This article focuses on why Blacks and Whites differed over the structure of the school board. Although the appointed board voted more favorably on issues of specific concern to the African American community, Blacks were disturbed by the l…
Political Cleavages
Oliver Twist Approaches Bumble, The Parish Beadle
Democratization in Latin America
It is an oft-recited but simplistic statement that all the countries in Latin America have a democratically elected leader save for Cuba. The veracity of that statement, regardless of its oversimplification, testifies to the remarkable transformation that swept the region in the 1980s and 1990s. But the fact that the statement requires qualifications indicates the complexity of democratization in Latin America and other third-wave democ-162
Primal Spirituality and the Onto/Phylo Fallacy
Many theorists-including Freud, Habermas and Wilber-have suggested that there are strong parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny, and that the development of the human species has followed the same basic pattern as the development of the individual from birth to adulthood. I discuss this view in relation to archaeological and anthropological knowledge of the world's "primal peoples." I look at the spiritual, moral, and social development of prim…
Political Culture and African Americans' Forgiveness of Elected Officials
A noticeable component of African American political behavior is a tendency to support some elected officials who were involved in earlier scandals. This political forgiveness has also been seen among urban white ethnics, whose political culture tolerated occasional misbehavior among elected officials, provided the officials worked to meet the material needs of their supporters. African Americans have similar expectations of their elected officia…
The Political Influence of African American Ministers
Since the days of slavery, some of the most influential political figures among African Americans have been members of the clergy. This political prominence of the clergy may have its origins in West Africa, where societal leaders have historically played both secular and religious roles
Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity
Accumulating evidence suggests that anxiety sensitivity (fear of arousal-related sensations) plays an important role in many clinical conditions, particularly anxiety disorders. Research has increasingly focused on how the basic dimensions of anxiety sensitivity are related to various forms of psychopathology. Such work has been hampered because the original measure--the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI)--was not designed to be multidimensional. Su…
Response to Desmond Arias's Review of Voting Amid Violence
The fundamental point of contention between the works under review here (in my view) is whether or not the presence of systematic violence is primarily a feature or a bug of the given political system being studied. I do not mean this distinction in a normative sense, but rather an analytical one. In other words, should we view endemic political violence in ostensibly democratic states to be deviations from appropriate democratic behavior (i.e., …
Coca's Gone
Colombian Voters and Ballot Structure
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