Douglas A. Davis

Curriculum Vita

Permanent address:

791 College Ave. #2
Haverford, PA 19041
(610) 610 649 7717

Summer address:

32301 Chiarella Drive
Breezy Point, MN 56472
(218) 562 4904

 
Email: ddavis@haverford.edu

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Education

  • 1981 - 1983: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University: Harvard Adolescence Project
  • 1974 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Personality Psychology
  • 1966 B.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Psychology

Occupational History

Professional Activities

Haverfordiana

Internet/Computer Consulting Activities, Talks, and Web-pages

Selected Papers and Publications

Davis, D.A. (1976). On being detectably sane in insane places: Base rates and psychodiagnosis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85, 416-422.

Davis, D. A. and Widseth, J.C. (1977). Prediction of college counseling service use: The problem of base rates. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 33, 995-100.

Wagner, D.A., & Davis, D.A. (1978). The necessary and the sufficient in cross-cultural research (comment). American Psychologist, 33, 857-858.

Davis, D. A. (1979). What's in a name: A Bayesian rethinking of attributional biases in clinical judgment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 1109-1114.

Davis, D.A. (1987). Formal operational thought and the Moroccan adolescent. In J. Valsiner (Ed.) Cultural context and child development: Towards a culture-inclusive developmental psychology. Hofgrefe, 1988.

Davis, S.S., & Davis, D.A. (1989). Adolescence in a Moroccan town: Making social sense. Rutgers University Press.

Davis, D.A. (1990a). Freud's unwritten case. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 7, 185-209.

Davis, D.A. (1990b). Abortion and its discontents: Reproductive psychodynamics in early psychoanalysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, August.

Davis, D.A. (1990c). Writing Freud. transcription of Haverford College Faculty Research Talk, November 29, 1990.

Davis, D.A. (1992) Belling Hélène. Review of Hélène Cixous, "Coming to writing" and other essays. Postmodern Culture, v.2 n.2 (January, 1992).

Davis, D.A. (1993). Accounting Freud: Review of The Diary of Sigmund Freud: A Record of the Final Decade. Contemporary Psychology, 38, 1315-1316.

Davis, S.S., & Davis, D.A. (1993). Dilemmas of adolescence: Courtship, sex, and marriage in Moroccan town. In D.L Bowen and E.A. Early (Eds.) Everyday life in the contemporary Muslim Middle East, Indiana University Press, pp. 84-90.

Davis, D.A., & Davis, S.S. (1993). Sexual values in a Moroccan town. In W.J. Lonner & R.S. Malpass (Eds.) Psychology and culture. Needham Heights: Allyn and Bacon, pp. 225-230.

Davis, D.A. (1994). A theory for the 90s: Freud's seduction theory in historical context. Psychoanalytic Review, 81, 627-640.

Davis, D.A. (1995). Modernizing the sexes: Changing gender relations in a Moroccan town. In A. Schlegel (Ed.) Special Issue on Adolescence. Ethos, 23, 69-78.

Davis, D.A., & Davis, S.S. (1995). Possessed by love: Gender and romance in Morocco. In W. Jankowiak (Ed.) Romantic passion: A universal experience? New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 219-238

Davis, D.A., & Davis, S.S. (1995). Love Conquers All? Changing Gender Relations in a Moroccan Town. In E.J. Fernea (Ed.) Children in the Muslim Middle East. Austin: The University of Texas Press.

Davis, S.S., & Davis, D.A. (1995). "The mosque and the satellite": Media and adolescence in a Moroccan town. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24, 577-593.

Davis, D.A. (1997). Jung in the Psychoanalytic movement. In P. Young-Eisendrath & T. Dawson (Eds.). Cambridge Companion to Jung. Cambridge University Press.

Davis, D.A. (2003a). Milennial Teaching. Academe, v. 89, 1, pp. 19-22.

Davis, D.A.. (2003b). Virtual Science: Dreams, Memexes, and MMORPGs. Notes for The Collins Professorship Talk. February 21, 2003.