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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Beliefs about Eyewitness Evidence
, 2022 The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of how people remember crimes. This study tests beliefs about estimator variables (e.g.
Pia Pennekamp, James Lampinen
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Running head featural composites and lineups: "What big teeth you have" - Red Riding Hood and the face recognition failure : the effects of isolated featural and configural composite construction and recognition accuracy [PDF]
, 2012 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.When a crime is committed, law enforcement typically relies on the testimony of an eyewitness. However, eyewitness testimony is often susceptible to contamination. Eyewitnesses are usually required to
Kempen, Kate-Victoria
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A perceptual scaling approach to eyewitness identification
Nature Communications, 2020 Eyewitness errors contribute to wrongful convictions. Here, the authors present a lineup procedure that reveals the structure of eyewitness memory, reduces decision bias, and measures performance of individual witnesses.
Sergei Gepshtein +4 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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Avatars and humans may not elicit the same accent-related biases in mock courtroom research
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionConducting research to better understand the role of extralegal factors in courtroom decision-making requires either labor intensive methods, such as simulating a trial, or approaches that are not ecologically valid, such as using short ...
Lara A. Frumkin +2 more
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Legal Professionals' Knowledge of Eyewitness Testimony in China: A Cross-Sectional Survey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 To examine legal professionals' knowledge of a wide range of factors that affect eyewitness accuracy in China.A total of 812 participants, including 210 judges, 244 prosecutors, 202 police officers, and 156 defense attorneys, were asked to respond to 12 ...
Lina Jiang, Dahua Luo
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Providing eyewitnesses with initial retrieval support:what works at immediate and subsequent recall? [PDF]
, 2014 The effect of retrieval support on eyewitness recall was investigated in two experiments. Based on the outshining hypothesis, Experiment 1 tested whether retrieval support enhances witness performance (compared to free recall) especially when witnessing ...
Krix, Alana C. +8 more
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