Graham Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Queensland University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The role of perceived threat in Australians’ endorsement of asylum-seeker policies
Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers continues to polarise public debate. The present study sought to investigate the factors that may influence an individual’s endorsement of deterrence-based government policies. Using the integrated threat theory of prejudice, the present study examined the role of perceived threat in shaping Australian voters’ political attitudes toward asylum seekers. A total of 255 Australian citizens completed an online …
Respect for the Dignity of People
Researchers have found that disrespectful behaviour can have a notable psychological impact on victims and observers thereof. It is not surprising, therefore, that law and all the major psychology codes of ethics acknowledge the principle of respect for the dignity of persons. The practical implications of this principle, however, are not clear. In this article we argue, with reference to the philosophical roots of the principle, that there are r…
Effects of Non-Indigenous Australian Human Resource Managers' Gender and Attitudes and Applicants' Ethnicity and Gender on Resumé Evaluations
In this web-based survey, 60 non-Indigenous Australian human resource (HR) professionals reviewed four fictitious job resumés for an Indigenous male, Indigenous female, non-Indigenous male and non-Indigenous female. Participants rated the resumés against five key selection criteria and then ranked them in terms of suitability for a HR position, team fit (TF) with participants' current HR team, and suitability for a customer service (CS) position.…
Forced Migration, Social Exclusion and Poverty
This special issue of the journal, which is part of a global research initiative on psychology and poverty reduction, focuses specifically on the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. Application of contemporary constructions of relative poverty and social exclusion to understanding asylum and humanitarian refuge emphasises the relative financial and social disadvantages experienced by many of these forced migrants, which may lead subsequen…
Motives for the Adoption of Protective Health Behaviours for Men and Women
The present study has been designed to: (1) evaluate the adequacy of a psychosocial-appraisal health model posited to explain the decision-making processes associated with the intention as well as the (non)practice of protective behaviours; and (2) test for sex differences in the hypothesized structural relations (both direct and indirect) between the model's exogenous (psychosocial) and endogenous (cognitive appraisal) factors in representing th…
Survey of ethics education in Australian university schools and departments of psychology
In 2000 the Ethics Committee of the APS conducted a survey of ethics education and training in all Australian University Psychology Academic Organisational Units (AOUs). Content analysis of course syllabi received directly from AOUs and/or obtained from accreditation documentation lodged by them with the APS as part of the 5-year APS course accreditation cycle showed that ethics education appeared in less that one quarter of syllabi for years 1-3…
The Australian Psychological Society and Australia's indigenous people
This paper highlights the achievements of the past decade, together with the shortcomings and future needs, of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in addressing its social and professional responsibilities towards Australia's Indigenous peoples. A selective chronology of events and initiatives since the 1988 International Congress in Psychology in Sydney is presented and critically examined. Reference is made to parallel national and inter…
Australian psychology and Australia's indigenous people
This brief overview of psychological research with Indigenous people of Australia attempts to apprehend the broad, underlying narratives of previous research in terms of its sociopolitical aims. It then considers the debate about whether the moral precept of social responsibility is compatible with scientific values that underpin psychological research, and argues that a socially responsible psychology is one that engages in self-reflection on it…
Factors affecting acceptance of aboriginal reconciliation amongst non-Indigenous Australians
Non-Indigenous Australians (n = 282) drawn from high school, Tafe, and university completed a questionnaire measuring levels of ingroup identification; judgements about the legitimacy, stability, and flexibility of Indigenous people's social position; perceived threats of reconciliation to their personal security and social acceptance; and support for the general aims, specific objectives, and overall work of the Council for Aboriginal Reconcilia…
The Impact of Motor Vehicle Accidents on the Psychological Well-being of At-fault Drivers and Related Passengers
This study assessed the effects of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) on drivers' and passengers' responsibility attribution, and levels of psychological distress and well-being. A total of 321 MVA victims from the state of Queensland, Australia, participated in this study by responding to a questionnaire designed to measure the study's critical variables. Of the sample, 221 were drivers (99 males, 122 females) and 100 were passengers (31 males, 69 f…
In pursuit of social responsibility in psychology
The sociohistorical construction of biological determinism that has been offered by Butler (1998) is supported. I argue, furthermore, that the paradigm shift proposed by Butler might not necessarily accommodate other cultural constructions of psychological research and of its social value. Psychology's response to social and political issues confronting indigenous people in Australia and their constructions of psychology are offered as examples
Fairness in a multicultural society! reply to dyck (1996)
Dyck (1996) has erred in his criticism of Davidson's (1995) proposal for a multiaxial model of indigenous cognitive assessment. His account of the literature offered in support of his viewpoint does not correspond with those authors' accounts. He misinterprets culturocentrism as racism and misunderstands the concept of culture. In attempting to separate the individual client from his or her cultural context he pursues a concept of “individual as …
Cognitive Assessment of Indigenous Australians
The paper proposes a multiaxial model of cognitive assessment applicable to the assessment of indigenous Australians. In doing so it draws on perspectives from indigenous and everyday theories of intelligence, advances in cognitive psychology, and multiaxial models of mental assessment
The ethics of confidentiality
This essay aims to briefly summarise the collection of articles on confidentiality issues in psychology, and to highlight apparently conflicting opinions about the confidentiality rule. Conflicts are then analysed in terms of competing systems of ethics. Finally, the role for ethics education in psychology education and training is considered
Filipina‐australian Marriages
In this study 61 Filipinos drawn from rural and regional towns reported that they were generally happily married and were subjected infrequently to physical violence in their marriages, although there was evidence of higher levels of abuse in the form of constraints on personal freedom, access to money and verbal criticism. The Filipino cultural value of amor propio (sense of honour or personal dignity) and Filipinas' experience of spousal abuse …
How xenophobic is Australian psychology? A comment on the education and training of Australian psychologists
The article draws attention to a lack of regard in Australian psychology for knowledge about the cultural context of psychological practice and for attendant skills which might be expected of psychologists in a multicultural society. Specific knowledge perspectives and applications provided by cultural and cross-cultural psychology are surveyed with a view to incorporating these in psychology curricula and continuing professional education
Family Law and Family Therapy
Teachers' Predictions of Children's Early Reading Achievement
We present and implement a framework for studying teachers’ informal expectations in the context of reading education. The framework is called Social Judgment Theory (SJT) and it entails an idiographic analysis of various aspects of cues used to form policies and make judgments. Major attention focuses on the relative importance attached to each cue and the overall relationship between the pattern used by the teacher and the pattern that actually…
Teachers’ Predictions of Children’s Early Reading Achievement
We present and implement a framework for studying teachers’ informal expectations in the context of reading education. The framework is called Social Judgment Theory (SJT) and it entails an idiographic analysis of various aspects of cues used to form policies and make judgments. Major attention focuses on the relative importance attached to each cue and the overall relationship between the pattern used by the teacher and the pattern that actually…
Interpersonal apprehension and cultural majority-minority communication
White Australians living in rural and isolated areas were administered indices of communication apprehension, receiver apprehension and communication flexibility, and were asked about their previous contacts, communication success, and concerns with Australian Aborigines. Greater receiver apprehension and communication inflexibility were associated with a reported inability to communicate with Aboriginies and a lack of informal, social contact be…
Educational assessment of socially and culturally different children
Psychology and aborigines
An Ethnographic Psychology of Aboriginal Cognitive Ability
Racial Characteristics and Experimental Performance
The effect of racial characteristics of a model on modeling behaviour was measured by Aboriginal and white Australian boys' responses to three visual recognition tasks performed by Aboriginal and white models. Analysis of variance of data derived from the choice theory of Luce (1963) indicated that Ss changed their response bias to the test stimuli depending on the race of the model. Task differences were also culturally specified by bias scores.…
Linguistic Determinants of Choice-Reaction Time among Aborigines and White Australians
Aboriginal and white Australian adolescent males classified stimuli along a specifically Aboriginal or a moiety dimension of dual organization and a colour dimension. A 2 x 2 randomized factorial design with simple reaction time (SRT) as the covariate showed that Aborigines recorded significantly greater choice-reaction times (CRT) on both CRT tasks. A significant culture x task interaction was in the opposite direction to the suggestion that moi…
Australian psychology and Australia's indigenous people
This brief overview of psychological research with Indigenous people of Australia attempts to apprehend the broad, underlying narratives of previous research in terms of its sociopolitical aims. It then considers the debate about whether the moral precept of social responsibility is compatible with scientific values that underpin psychological research, and argues that a socially responsible psychology is one that engages in self-reflection on it…
Cognitive Assessment of Indigenous Australians
The paper proposes a multiaxial model of cognitive assessment applicable to the assessment of indigenous Australians. In doing so it draws on perspectives from indigenous and everyday theories of intelligence, advances in cognitive psychology, and multiaxial models of mental assessment
How xenophobic is Australian psychology? A comment on the education and training of Australian psychologists
The article draws attention to a lack of regard in Australian psychology for knowledge about the cultural context of psychological practice and for attendant skills which might be expected of psychologists in a multicultural society. Specific knowledge perspectives and applications provided by cultural and cross-cultural psychology are surveyed with a view to incorporating these in psychology curricula and continuing professional education
Survey of ethics education in Australian university schools and departments of psychology
In 2000 the Ethics Committee of the APS conducted a survey of ethics education and training in all Australian University Psychology Academic Organisational Units (AOUs). Content analysis of course syllabi received directly from AOUs and/or obtained from accreditation documentation lodged by them with the APS as part of the 5-year APS course accreditation cycle showed that ethics education appeared in less that one quarter of syllabi for years 1-3…
The Australian Psychological Society and Australia's indigenous people
This paper highlights the achievements of the past decade, together with the shortcomings and future needs, of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in addressing its social and professional responsibilities towards Australia's Indigenous peoples. A selective chronology of events and initiatives since the 1988 International Congress in Psychology in Sydney is presented and critically examined. Reference is made to parallel national and inter…
Factors affecting acceptance of aboriginal reconciliation amongst non-Indigenous Australians
Non-Indigenous Australians (n = 282) drawn from high school, Tafe, and university completed a questionnaire measuring levels of ingroup identification; judgements about the legitimacy, stability, and flexibility of Indigenous people's social position; perceived threats of reconciliation to their personal security and social acceptance; and support for the general aims, specific objectives, and overall work of the Council for Aboriginal Reconcilia…
The ethics of confidentiality
This essay aims to briefly summarise the collection of articles on confidentiality issues in psychology, and to highlight apparently conflicting opinions about the confidentiality rule. Conflicts are then analysed in terms of competing systems of ethics. Finally, the role for ethics education in psychology education and training is considered
Psychology and aborigines
Filipina‐australian Marriages
In this study 61 Filipinos drawn from rural and regional towns reported that they were generally happily married and were subjected infrequently to physical violence in their marriages, although there was evidence of higher levels of abuse in the form of constraints on personal freedom, access to money and verbal criticism. The Filipino cultural value of amor propio (sense of honour or personal dignity) and Filipinas' experience of spousal abuse …
Respect for the Dignity of People
Researchers have found that disrespectful behaviour can have a notable psychological impact on victims and observers thereof. It is not surprising, therefore, that law and all the major psychology codes of ethics acknowledge the principle of respect for the dignity of persons. The practical implications of this principle, however, are not clear. In this article we argue, with reference to the philosophical roots of the principle, that there are r…
Motives for the Adoption of Protective Health Behaviours for Men and Women
The present study has been designed to: (1) evaluate the adequacy of a psychosocial-appraisal health model posited to explain the decision-making processes associated with the intention as well as the (non)practice of protective behaviours; and (2) test for sex differences in the hypothesized structural relations (both direct and indirect) between the model's exogenous (psychosocial) and endogenous (cognitive appraisal) factors in representing th…
Fairness in a multicultural society! reply to dyck (1996)
Dyck (1996) has erred in his criticism of Davidson's (1995) proposal for a multiaxial model of indigenous cognitive assessment. His account of the literature offered in support of his viewpoint does not correspond with those authors' accounts. He misinterprets culturocentrism as racism and misunderstands the concept of culture. In attempting to separate the individual client from his or her cultural context he pursues a concept of “individual as …
Teachers’ Predictions of Children’s Early Reading Achievement
We present and implement a framework for studying teachers’ informal expectations in the context of reading education. The framework is called Social Judgment Theory (SJT) and it entails an idiographic analysis of various aspects of cues used to form policies and make judgments. Major attention focuses on the relative importance attached to each cue and the overall relationship between the pattern used by the teacher and the pattern that actually…
Interpersonal apprehension and cultural majority-minority communication
White Australians living in rural and isolated areas were administered indices of communication apprehension, receiver apprehension and communication flexibility, and were asked about their previous contacts, communication success, and concerns with Australian Aborigines. Greater receiver apprehension and communication inflexibility were associated with a reported inability to communicate with Aboriginies and a lack of informal, social contact be…
Linguistic Determinants of Choice-Reaction Time among Aborigines and White Australians
Aboriginal and white Australian adolescent males classified stimuli along a specifically Aboriginal or a moiety dimension of dual organization and a colour dimension. A 2 x 2 randomized factorial design with simple reaction time (SRT) as the covariate showed that Aborigines recorded significantly greater choice-reaction times (CRT) on both CRT tasks. A significant culture x task interaction was in the opposite direction to the suggestion that moi…
An Ethnographic Psychology of Aboriginal Cognitive Ability
Racial Characteristics and Experimental Performance
The effect of racial characteristics of a model on modeling behaviour was measured by Aboriginal and white Australian boys' responses to three visual recognition tasks performed by Aboriginal and white models. Analysis of variance of data derived from the choice theory of Luce (1963) indicated that Ss changed their response bias to the test stimuli depending on the race of the model. Task differences were also culturally specified by bias scores.…
Psychology and aborigines
Educational assessment of socially and culturally different children
Interpersonal apprehension and cultural majority-minority communication
White Australians living in rural and isolated areas were administered indices of communication apprehension, receiver apprehension and communication flexibility, and were asked about their previous contacts, communication success, and concerns with Australian Aborigines. Greater receiver apprehension and communication inflexibility were associated with a reported inability to communicate with Aboriginies and a lack of informal, social contact be…
Family Law and Family Therapy
Teachers' Predictions of Children's Early Reading Achievement
We present and implement a framework for studying teachers’ informal expectations in the context of reading education. The framework is called Social Judgment Theory (SJT) and it entails an idiographic analysis of various aspects of cues used to form policies and make judgments. Major attention focuses on the relative importance attached to each cue and the overall relationship between the pattern used by the teacher and the pattern that actually…
Teachers’ Predictions of Children’s Early Reading Achievement
We present and implement a framework for studying teachers’ informal expectations in the context of reading education. The framework is called Social Judgment Theory (SJT) and it entails an idiographic analysis of various aspects of cues used to form policies and make judgments. Major attention focuses on the relative importance attached to each cue and the overall relationship between the pattern used by the teacher and the pattern that actually…
How xenophobic is Australian psychology? A comment on the education and training of Australian psychologists
The article draws attention to a lack of regard in Australian psychology for knowledge about the cultural context of psychological practice and for attendant skills which might be expected of psychologists in a multicultural society. Specific knowledge perspectives and applications provided by cultural and cross-cultural psychology are surveyed with a view to incorporating these in psychology curricula and continuing professional education
Filipina‐australian Marriages
In this study 61 Filipinos drawn from rural and regional towns reported that they were generally happily married and were subjected infrequently to physical violence in their marriages, although there was evidence of higher levels of abuse in the form of constraints on personal freedom, access to money and verbal criticism. The Filipino cultural value of amor propio (sense of honour or personal dignity) and Filipinas' experience of spousal abuse …
Cognitive Assessment of Indigenous Australians
The paper proposes a multiaxial model of cognitive assessment applicable to the assessment of indigenous Australians. In doing so it draws on perspectives from indigenous and everyday theories of intelligence, advances in cognitive psychology, and multiaxial models of mental assessment
The ethics of confidentiality
This essay aims to briefly summarise the collection of articles on confidentiality issues in psychology, and to highlight apparently conflicting opinions about the confidentiality rule. Conflicts are then analysed in terms of competing systems of ethics. Finally, the role for ethics education in psychology education and training is considered
Fairness in a multicultural society! reply to dyck (1996)
Dyck (1996) has erred in his criticism of Davidson's (1995) proposal for a multiaxial model of indigenous cognitive assessment. His account of the literature offered in support of his viewpoint does not correspond with those authors' accounts. He misinterprets culturocentrism as racism and misunderstands the concept of culture. In attempting to separate the individual client from his or her cultural context he pursues a concept of “individual as …
In pursuit of social responsibility in psychology
The sociohistorical construction of biological determinism that has been offered by Butler (1998) is supported. I argue, furthermore, that the paradigm shift proposed by Butler might not necessarily accommodate other cultural constructions of psychological research and of its social value. Psychology's response to social and political issues confronting indigenous people in Australia and their constructions of psychology are offered as examples
The Australian Psychological Society and Australia's indigenous people
This paper highlights the achievements of the past decade, together with the shortcomings and future needs, of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in addressing its social and professional responsibilities towards Australia's Indigenous peoples. A selective chronology of events and initiatives since the 1988 International Congress in Psychology in Sydney is presented and critically examined. Reference is made to parallel national and inter…
Australian psychology and Australia's indigenous people
This brief overview of psychological research with Indigenous people of Australia attempts to apprehend the broad, underlying narratives of previous research in terms of its sociopolitical aims. It then considers the debate about whether the moral precept of social responsibility is compatible with scientific values that underpin psychological research, and argues that a socially responsible psychology is one that engages in self-reflection on it…
Factors affecting acceptance of aboriginal reconciliation amongst non-Indigenous Australians
Non-Indigenous Australians (n = 282) drawn from high school, Tafe, and university completed a questionnaire measuring levels of ingroup identification; judgements about the legitimacy, stability, and flexibility of Indigenous people's social position; perceived threats of reconciliation to their personal security and social acceptance; and support for the general aims, specific objectives, and overall work of the Council for Aboriginal Reconcilia…
The Impact of Motor Vehicle Accidents on the Psychological Well-being of At-fault Drivers and Related Passengers
This study assessed the effects of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) on drivers' and passengers' responsibility attribution, and levels of psychological distress and well-being. A total of 321 MVA victims from the state of Queensland, Australia, participated in this study by responding to a questionnaire designed to measure the study's critical variables. Of the sample, 221 were drivers (99 males, 122 females) and 100 were passengers (31 males, 69 f…
Survey of ethics education in Australian university schools and departments of psychology
In 2000 the Ethics Committee of the APS conducted a survey of ethics education and training in all Australian University Psychology Academic Organisational Units (AOUs). Content analysis of course syllabi received directly from AOUs and/or obtained from accreditation documentation lodged by them with the APS as part of the 5-year APS course accreditation cycle showed that ethics education appeared in less that one quarter of syllabi for years 1-3…
Motives for the Adoption of Protective Health Behaviours for Men and Women
The present study has been designed to: (1) evaluate the adequacy of a psychosocial-appraisal health model posited to explain the decision-making processes associated with the intention as well as the (non)practice of protective behaviours; and (2) test for sex differences in the hypothesized structural relations (both direct and indirect) between the model's exogenous (psychosocial) and endogenous (cognitive appraisal) factors in representing th…
Forced Migration, Social Exclusion and Poverty
This special issue of the journal, which is part of a global research initiative on psychology and poverty reduction, focuses specifically on the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. Application of contemporary constructions of relative poverty and social exclusion to understanding asylum and humanitarian refuge emphasises the relative financial and social disadvantages experienced by many of these forced migrants, which may lead subsequen…
Effects of Non-Indigenous Australian Human Resource Managers' Gender and Attitudes and Applicants' Ethnicity and Gender on Resumé Evaluations
In this web-based survey, 60 non-Indigenous Australian human resource (HR) professionals reviewed four fictitious job resumés for an Indigenous male, Indigenous female, non-Indigenous male and non-Indigenous female. Participants rated the resumés against five key selection criteria and then ranked them in terms of suitability for a HR position, team fit (TF) with participants' current HR team, and suitability for a customer service (CS) position.…
Respect for the Dignity of People
Researchers have found that disrespectful behaviour can have a notable psychological impact on victims and observers thereof. It is not surprising, therefore, that law and all the major psychology codes of ethics acknowledge the principle of respect for the dignity of persons. The practical implications of this principle, however, are not clear. In this article we argue, with reference to the philosophical roots of the principle, that there are r…
The role of perceived threat in Australians’ endorsement of asylum-seeker policies
Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers continues to polarise public debate. The present study sought to investigate the factors that may influence an individual’s endorsement of deterrence-based government policies. Using the integrated threat theory of prejudice, the present study examined the role of perceived threat in shaping Australian voters’ political attitudes toward asylum seekers. A total of 255 Australian citizens completed an online …
Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)