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Courtroom Factors And Jurors' Decision-Making In Cases Involving Child Witnesses, Debra Schwiesow
Courtroom Factors And Jurors' Decision-Making In Cases Involving Child Witnesses, Debra Schwiesow
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This study examined the influence of expert witness testimony and jury instructions on mock jurors' final verdicts of guilt in a case where the sole eyewitness to a murder/abduction was a five-year-old-child. One hundred and ninety-two college students heard an audio-taped trial proceeding in which the testimony of an expert witness and the jury instructions were varied (both supporting or discrediting of a child witness' testimony or mixed testimonies). Individual judgments of guilt and judgments after group deliberation were recorded. It was hypothesized that expert witness testimony and jury instructions would significantly influence verdicts. Contrary to predictions, neither expert witness …
Psychosocial Correlates Of Drug Use In Adolescents, Earl H. Faulkner
Psychosocial Correlates Of Drug Use In Adolescents, Earl H. Faulkner
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The purpose of this study was to examine adolescent drug involvement in relation to a variety of psychological and social constructs. One hundred ninety-nine adolescent high school students and 67 adolescents receiving drug treatment served as subjects. A battery of questionnaires was administered to assess a participant’s: involvement with drugs (i.e., reported drug use index, intent to use drugs in the future, exposure to drugs, and level of drug use prior to abstinence); self-concept/self-esteem; social skills; and anxiety and depression levels. Degree of drug involvement, both within the student sample and between student and treatment samples, was related differentially to …
Effectiveness Of Screening Procedures To Determine Delay Versus Regular Kindergarten Entrance, Janet Benton Gaillard
Effectiveness Of Screening Procedures To Determine Delay Versus Regular Kindergarten Entrance, Janet Benton Gaillard
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This study evaluated education outcomes of a psychological screening procedure used by the Omaha Public Schools to assist in entrance decisions for summer and fall born children who were eligible to attend kindergarten. From the available sample of children tested from 1975-1979, 115 were chosen based on availability of a complete set of required scores. There were 71 males and 41 females, with 75 from the suburban area and 26 from the city. Racial composition was 107 Caucasian, 3 Black, 3 Hispanic, and 1 Indian student. One hundred five students had average or above intelligence. Discriminant analysis showed several significant …
Peer Ratings Of First-Grade Thumbsuckers, Keith Martin Mcpherson
Peer Ratings Of First-Grade Thumbsuckers, Keith Martin Mcpherson
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the social attitudes of school-aged children toward thumbsucking. Behavior during school-aged years contributes to the development of peer perceptions which may influence a child's self-concept and behavior for years to come. The hypothesis of the present experiment is that children who suck their thumbs are perceived less favorably by their peers. Thumb or finger sucking (hereafter referred to as thumbsucking) is a common and often enduring behavior that typically develops in infancy (Klackenberg, 1949). It is considered developmentally appropriate in infancy because sucking is an adaptive behavior infants use to nourish and …
A Power Greater Than Ourselves: The Commodification Of Alcoholism, John S. Rice
A Power Greater Than Ourselves: The Commodification Of Alcoholism, John S. Rice
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Hospital-based treatment of alcoholism and other, so- called "chemical dependencies", has become common practice in the U.S. In 1983, 4,465 facilities, including hospitals, halfway houses, and outpatient treatment programs and agencies, provided chemical abuse treatment (Denzin 1987: 17). This increase in facilities is mirrored by the increase in people receiving treatment.