Michael W Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4164023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6420-952X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Family Matters
Scholars and policy makers frequently advocate recruiting "embedded" bureaucrats with strong ties to citizens in order to improve service delivery. Yet, officials who are too embedded in their communities are often blamed for corruption, favoritism, and ineffectiveness. We argue that this ambiguity stems from a mismatch between individual- and community-level effects of embeddedness. While personal ties increase engagement between directly connec…
Digit ratio (2D)
The position people occupy in their social and professional networks is related to their social status and has strong effects on their access to social resources. While attainment of particular positions is driven by behavioral traits, many biological factors predispose individuals to certain behaviors and motivations. Prior work on exposure to fetal androgens (measured by second-to-fourth digit ratio, 2D:4D) shows that it correlates with behavio…
Roundtable
Are Teachers of Children and Young Adolescents Responsive to Suicide Prevention Training Modules? Yes
Both before and after a 1-hour suicide prevention training module, 75 elementary trachers-in-training read a 4-sentence vignette about a suicidal student ("Pat"), then completed 8 questions about their responses. Compared with pretraining, at post-training these teachers were more likely to say that they would send or escort Pat to the counselor's office, use written or verbal no-suicide agreements, call Pat's parents, believe Pat to be serious r…
A Quartz Crystal Cross from Mission San Luis, Florida
Senior Officers and Vietnam Policymaking
Family Matters
Scholars and policy makers frequently advocate recruiting "embedded" bureaucrats with strong ties to citizens in order to improve service delivery. Yet, officials who are too embedded in their communities are often blamed for corruption, favoritism, and ineffectiveness. We argue that this ambiguity stems from a mismatch between individual- and community-level effects of embeddedness. While personal ties increase engagement between directly connec…
Roundtable
Are Teachers of Children and Young Adolescents Responsive to Suicide Prevention Training Modules? Yes
Both before and after a 1-hour suicide prevention training module, 75 elementary trachers-in-training read a 4-sentence vignette about a suicidal student ("Pat"), then completed 8 questions about their responses. Compared with pretraining, at post-training these teachers were more likely to say that they would send or escort Pat to the counselor's office, use written or verbal no-suicide agreements, call Pat's parents, believe Pat to be serious r…
Senior Officers and Vietnam Policymaking
A Quartz Crystal Cross from Mission San Luis, Florida
Are Teachers of Children and Young Adolescents Responsive to Suicide Prevention Training Modules? Yes
Both before and after a 1-hour suicide prevention training module, 75 elementary trachers-in-training read a 4-sentence vignette about a suicidal student ("Pat"), then completed 8 questions about their responses. Compared with pretraining, at post-training these teachers were more likely to say that they would send or escort Pat to the counselor's office, use written or verbal no-suicide agreements, call Pat's parents, believe Pat to be serious r…
Roundtable
Digit ratio (2D)
The position people occupy in their social and professional networks is related to their social status and has strong effects on their access to social resources. While attainment of particular positions is driven by behavioral traits, many biological factors predispose individuals to certain behaviors and motivations. Prior work on exposure to fetal androgens (measured by second-to-fourth digit ratio, 2D:4D) shows that it correlates with behavio…
Family Matters
Scholars and policy makers frequently advocate recruiting "embedded" bureaucrats with strong ties to citizens in order to improve service delivery. Yet, officials who are too embedded in their communities are often blamed for corruption, favoritism, and ineffectiveness. We argue that this ambiguity stems from a mismatch between individual- and community-level effects of embeddedness. While personal ties increase engagement between directly connec…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)