Don Davis
Professor - Program Coordinator, Counseling Psychology, Faculty, Clinical Mental Health and Counselor Education and Practice Counseling and Psychological Services- Biography
Don Davis is a professor in the Department of Counseling. He’s the program coordinator for Counseling Psychology and a faculty member for Clinical Mental Healt and Counselor Education and Practice.
The research program Davis works with generally falls under the umbrella of positive psychology. The lab, called Humility and the Advancement of Positive Psychology Interventions (HAPPI), generally studies the virtues humility, forgiveness and gratitude. The lab does both basic and applied research. He also does work on spirituality as an aspect of diversity.
Davis and his colleagues received a $6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to better understand intellectual humility. The project involves distributing $3.5 million to support projects focused on two questions: 1.) What are the psychological processes that are responsible for developing intellectual humility? and 2.) What contexts are intellectual humility interventions most beneficial? To learn more and submit a proposal for funding consideration, click here.
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- Publications
Davis, D. E., Rice, K., Van Tongeren, D., Hook, J., DeBlaere, C., Worthington, E. L, and Jr., Choe, E. (in press). “The moral foundations hypothesis does not replicate well in Black samples.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, in press.
Davis, D. E., DeBlaere, C., Hook, J. N., Burnette, J., Van Tongeren, D. R., Rice, K. G., and Worthington, E. L. Jr. (in press). “Intergroup forgiveness of race-related offenses.” Journal of Counseling Psychology, in press.
Davis, D. E., Rice, K. G., Hook, J. N., Van Tongeren, DeBlaere, C. Choe, E., and Worthington, E. L., Jr. (in press). “Development of the Sources of Spirituality Scale.” Journal of Counseling Psychology, in press.
Davis, D. E., Hook, J. N., Van Tongeren, D. R., DeBlaere, C., Rice, K. G., and Worthington, E.,L., Jr. (in press). “Making a decision to forgive.” Journal of Counseling Psychology, in press.
Hook, J. N., Davis, D. E., Owen, J., Worthington Jr, E. L., and Utsey, S. O. (2013). “Cultural humility: Measuring openness to culturally diverse clients.” Journal of Counseling Psychology, 60, 353-366.