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PLoS ONE, 2017 Inaccurate eyewitness identifications are the leading cause of known false convictions in the United States. Moreover, improving eyewitness memory is difficult and often unsuccessful.
Michelle E Stepan +2 more
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The effects of lineup size on the processes underlying eyewitness decisions
Scientific Reports, 2023 Here we apply the two-high threshold eyewitness identification model to identify the effects of lineup size on the detection-based and non-detection-based processes underlying eyewitness decisions.
Nicola Marie Menne +3 more
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Information gathered during court hearings is crucial for legal decision‐making in Germany, as it can directly influence the accuracy and fairness of judicial outcomes. Aim This study is the first aiming to explore how legal practitioners (i.e.
Lennart May +3 more
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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Parity and the Permissivism Puzzle: A Defense of Epistemic Options
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Moral philosophers generally affirm that there are moral options: a single person sometimes has multiple morally permissible actions at a time. But epistemologists generally deny that there are epistemic options: a single person never has multiple epistemically permissible doxastic attitudes at a time. This asymmetry is striking.
Chris Tucker, Elizabeth Jackson
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Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident
International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 2014 There is a paucity of studies on the reliability of eyewitness reports to aviation crashes. We examine witness statements to a widely observed major airline accident to determine if reported accident investigator distrust of details in eyewitness reports
Dave English, Michael Kuzel
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Understanding and truth in Hannah Arendt: The critical reception of the Eichmann trial and the will
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article highlights a shift in Hannah Arendt's intellectual development regarding the will during the 1960s, traced into the early 1970s when she focused on thinking, willing, and judging. I argue that this change was driven by reactions to her report on Adolf Eichmann's 1961 trial in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
Andrew Song
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On Expanding the Range of Victims of Coercion To Testify
Сибирское юридическое обозрениеBuilding a state governed by the rule of law involves improving the mechanism for combating encroachments on justice ensuring observance of human and civil rights and freedoms. In changing criminology realities, in the focus of discussion are the ways to
A. Yu. Aseev, E. I. Chekmezova
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