William L Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 704245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William L Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | William L |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS W L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Martin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Joseph Smith's Spiritual Language
Producing Ancient Scripture
The Book of Mormon and the Limits of Naturalistic Criteria
William L. Davis, The Book of Mormon and the Limits of Naturalistic Criteria: Comparing Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Davis, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 73-104
Economists' Opinions of Economists' Work
Economists' credibility has been waning in recent years. Critics usually cite the profession's preoccupation with abstract reasoning and its focus on seemingly irrelevant topics that hold little interest for individuals outside the discipline. While economic science has enormous potential for improving living standards, the profession's adverse reputation is indicative of a discipline seemingly void of any social contribution. This article presen…
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit
This essay examines Shakespeare's use of chiasmus, a rhetorical device that is most commonly associated with verbal duels and games of wit. A closer examination reveals that Shakespeare's use of chiasmus is more prevalent and more complex than previous scholarship has shown, and that it often plays a key role in the interpretation of speeches, characters, and scenes. The essay also introduces Shakespeare's large-scale, complex chiasmus, which, un…
Economists' Perceptions of Their Own Professional Research
Economists' Perceptions of Their Own Professional Research
A recent survey of 1,000 professional economists indicates they believe their research does afford spillover benefits for various audiences. A majority believe, however, that those benefits are limited and unevenly distributed
Economists' Perceptions of Their Own Research
This paper presents the results of a recently conducted survey of 1500 professional economists living in the United States and Canada. The study was undertaken in an attempt to ascertain professional economists'views of the worth and usefulness of their own scientific research. The response rate of the survey was 49 percent (734 respondents) yielding statistical results which suggest that economists do believe their research has some social value…
The political economy of dissonance
Economists' Uses for Cognitive Dissonance
Since its publication in 1957, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Festinger has generated much discussion and debate among psychologists. In recent years economists have begun employing this theory to explain economic behavior and various other economic issues. This research note summarizes some of the economic studies in which cognitive dissonance has been employed. As discussed, the application of this theory is gaining some popularity with ec…
An Economic Analysis of Teenage Fertility
The relationship between the probability of a teenage birth and various independent variables representing fecundity, attitudes, resources, and the economic opportunities for a sample of teenage females drawn from the 1980 census is examined. A theoretical framework, based on Becker's model, is employed to describe the birth-decision process and tested using a logit technique. The findings suggest that receipt of public assistance income and perc…
Family Planning Services
U.S. Federal legislation related to family planning services for women has been an ongoing process for several decades. Over the years numerous researchers have written about and speculated on many different Congressional acts germane to family planning. Most of these studies, however, have limited their discussions to a specific piece of legislation, its implications, and/or social consequences. The purpose of this study is to present a comprehe…
Beyond Magic Thinking
This article stresses the importance of planned follow-up work to redecisions by using the principle of generalization as a framework for the treatment plan. A clinical typescript demonstrates the work. Finally, three group exercises are suggested for implementing the ideas of generalizing redecisions in a workshop and large group setting or as treatment group homework assignments
Cognitive Flexibility and Communication of Therapeutic Conditions
The importance of a counselor's Accurate Empathy, Non-possessive Warmth, and Genuineness (3) has been validated by outcome research in counseling and therapy (1, 3) but less research has been directed toward relationship between counselors' ability to show these characteristics and their individual personality attributes. The relevance of one personality dimension, cognitive flexibility, to counseling effectiveness has been demonstrated (2, 4). T…
Internal-external control and attribution of responsibility for success and failure 1
Cooperation and optimal responding in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
Parental Antecedents of Internal-External Control of Reinforcement
Two exploratory studies were conducted involving children's reports of parental behavior and parents' child-rearing and internal-external control (I-E) attitudes as antecedents of children's beliefs that the reinforcements they receive are a consequence of their own behavior (internals). Internals, as contrasted to those who believe that reinforcements tend to occur independently of their behavior (externals), reported their parents as showing le…
Internal-external control and reaction to threat
Internal-external control as a determinant of information-seeking in a social influence situation1
Breadth of categorization and the generalization of expectancies
The Columbia River, or Scenes and Adventures during a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown
Journal Article The Columbia River, or Scenes and Adventures during a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together with “A Journey across the American Continent.” By Ross Cox. Edited by Edgar I. Stewart and Jane R. Stewart Get access William L. Davis William L. Davis Gonzaga University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Cooperation and optimal responding in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
Internal-external control and reaction to threat
Breadth of categorization and the generalization of expectancies
Economists' Opinions of Economists' Work
Economists' credibility has been waning in recent years. Critics usually cite the profession's preoccupation with abstract reasoning and its focus on seemingly irrelevant topics that hold little interest for individuals outside the discipline. While economic science has enormous potential for improving living standards, the profession's adverse reputation is indicative of a discipline seemingly void of any social contribution. This article presen…
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit
This essay examines Shakespeare's use of chiasmus, a rhetorical device that is most commonly associated with verbal duels and games of wit. A closer examination reveals that Shakespeare's use of chiasmus is more prevalent and more complex than previous scholarship has shown, and that it often plays a key role in the interpretation of speeches, characters, and scenes. The essay also introduces Shakespeare's large-scale, complex chiasmus, which, un…
Economists' Perceptions of Their Own Research
This paper presents the results of a recently conducted survey of 1500 professional economists living in the United States and Canada. The study was undertaken in an attempt to ascertain professional economists'views of the worth and usefulness of their own scientific research. The response rate of the survey was 49 percent (734 respondents) yielding statistical results which suggest that economists do believe their research has some social value…
The political economy of dissonance
The Columbia River, or Scenes and Adventures during a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown
Journal Article The Columbia River, or Scenes and Adventures during a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together with “A Journey across the American Continent.” By Ross Cox. Edited by Edgar I. Stewart and Jane R. Stewart Get access William L. Davis William L. Davis Gonzaga University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Breadth of categorization and the generalization of expectancies
Internal-external control as a determinant of information-seeking in a social influence situation1
Internal-external control and reaction to threat
Parental Antecedents of Internal-External Control of Reinforcement
Two exploratory studies were conducted involving children's reports of parental behavior and parents' child-rearing and internal-external control (I-E) attitudes as antecedents of children's beliefs that the reinforcements they receive are a consequence of their own behavior (internals). Internals, as contrasted to those who believe that reinforcements tend to occur independently of their behavior (externals), reported their parents as showing le…
Cooperation and optimal responding in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
Internal-external control and attribution of responsibility for success and failure 1
Cognitive Flexibility and Communication of Therapeutic Conditions
The importance of a counselor's Accurate Empathy, Non-possessive Warmth, and Genuineness (3) has been validated by outcome research in counseling and therapy (1, 3) but less research has been directed toward relationship between counselors' ability to show these characteristics and their individual personality attributes. The relevance of one personality dimension, cognitive flexibility, to counseling effectiveness has been demonstrated (2, 4). T…
Beyond Magic Thinking
This article stresses the importance of planned follow-up work to redecisions by using the principle of generalization as a framework for the treatment plan. A clinical typescript demonstrates the work. Finally, three group exercises are suggested for implementing the ideas of generalizing redecisions in a workshop and large group setting or as treatment group homework assignments
Family Planning Services
U.S. Federal legislation related to family planning services for women has been an ongoing process for several decades. Over the years numerous researchers have written about and speculated on many different Congressional acts germane to family planning. Most of these studies, however, have limited their discussions to a specific piece of legislation, its implications, and/or social consequences. The purpose of this study is to present a comprehe…
Economists' Uses for Cognitive Dissonance
Since its publication in 1957, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Festinger has generated much discussion and debate among psychologists. In recent years economists have begun employing this theory to explain economic behavior and various other economic issues. This research note summarizes some of the economic studies in which cognitive dissonance has been employed. As discussed, the application of this theory is gaining some popularity with ec…
An Economic Analysis of Teenage Fertility
The relationship between the probability of a teenage birth and various independent variables representing fecundity, attitudes, resources, and the economic opportunities for a sample of teenage females drawn from the 1980 census is examined. A theoretical framework, based on Becker's model, is employed to describe the birth-decision process and tested using a logit technique. The findings suggest that receipt of public assistance income and perc…
The political economy of dissonance
Economists' Perceptions of Their Own Research
This paper presents the results of a recently conducted survey of 1500 professional economists living in the United States and Canada. The study was undertaken in an attempt to ascertain professional economists'views of the worth and usefulness of their own scientific research. The response rate of the survey was 49 percent (734 respondents) yielding statistical results which suggest that economists do believe their research has some social value…
Economists' Perceptions of Their Own Professional Research
Economists' Perceptions of Their Own Professional Research
A recent survey of 1,000 professional economists indicates they believe their research does afford spillover benefits for various audiences. A majority believe, however, that those benefits are limited and unevenly distributed
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit
This essay examines Shakespeare's use of chiasmus, a rhetorical device that is most commonly associated with verbal duels and games of wit. A closer examination reveals that Shakespeare's use of chiasmus is more prevalent and more complex than previous scholarship has shown, and that it often plays a key role in the interpretation of speeches, characters, and scenes. The essay also introduces Shakespeare's large-scale, complex chiasmus, which, un…
Economists' Opinions of Economists' Work
Economists' credibility has been waning in recent years. Critics usually cite the profession's preoccupation with abstract reasoning and its focus on seemingly irrelevant topics that hold little interest for individuals outside the discipline. While economic science has enormous potential for improving living standards, the profession's adverse reputation is indicative of a discipline seemingly void of any social contribution. This article presen…
The Book of Mormon and the Limits of Naturalistic Criteria
William L. Davis, The Book of Mormon and the Limits of Naturalistic Criteria: Comparing Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Davis, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 73-104
Producing Ancient Scripture
Joseph Smith's Spiritual Language
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