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The Influence Of Gender And Language Complexity On The Credibility Of Expert Witness Testimony, Darcy Egan
The Influence Of Gender And Language Complexity On The Credibility Of Expert Witness Testimony, Darcy Egan
Undergraduate Theses
With the increased use in expert witness testimony in civil trials, the decisions that jury members have made based on those testimonies have become very controversial. Previous research indicates that when a testimony is particularly complex, mock jurors will rely on cues outside the content of the testimony in order to determine the credibility of the witness. Research shows that there are different cues that are associated with higher credibility the expert. Common cues include the gender, occupation, and level of language complexity of the expert witness. This study used these three different cues as the independent variables, with two …
Perceived Desirability Of Given Names: Identifying A Relationship Between Given Names And Associated Personality Traits, Ellen D. Parks
Perceived Desirability Of Given Names: Identifying A Relationship Between Given Names And Associated Personality Traits, Ellen D. Parks
Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects
This study was designed to determine whether participants would have better recall for names with phonetic properties that matched a paired personality trait. In other words, phonetically attractive names paired with positive traits and phonetically unattractive names paired with negative traits should have higher rates of recall than names whose phonetic properties did not match a paired personality trait, such as phonetically attractive names paired with negative traits or phonetically unattractive names paired with positive traits. Given names were deemed to be phonetically attractive or unattractive based on the number of sonorants (soft consonant sounds such as l, m, n, …
Is Learned Helplessness Helpless? Political Language Of The Bush Administration, Ibpp Editor
Is Learned Helplessness Helpless? Political Language Of The Bush Administration, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article critiques the notion that the Bush administration has effectively pursued its policy prescriptions through public language that induces learned helplessness among United States citizens.
Threat And Threatening Language: Public Discourse On Iraq, Ibpp Editor
Threat And Threatening Language: Public Discourse On Iraq, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article explores the relationship of language, the construction of threat, and the constructor’s response to that which is constructed.