The effectiveness of cognitive instructions when children provide true and false eyewitness reports of another’s transgression

AbstractThe Henan famine of 1942 occurred during the middle of the Sino-Japanese war, in a province that was divided between Japanese, Nationalist and Communist political control. Partly due to this wartime context, existing accounts of the famine rely almost exclusively on eyewitness reports. This paper presents a range of statistical sources on the famine, including weather records, contemporary economic surveys and population censuses. These statistical sources allow similarities to be drawn between the Henan famine and other famines that occurred during the Second World War, such as in Bengal, when the combination of bad weather, war-induced disruptions to food markets, and the relegation of famine relief to the war effort, brought great hardship to civilians living near the war front.

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Burning Questions: Spontaneous Human Combustion in Early Modern Europe

Gesnerus ◽

10.1163/22977953-07601002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 76 (1) ◽

pp. 36-57

Author(s):

Michael R. Lynn

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Early Modern Europe ◽

Early Modern France ◽

Modern France ◽

Eyewitness Reports ◽

Modern Europe

Spontaneous human combustion shocked and confused people in early modern France. Without a body to examine or eyewitness reports savants had diffi culty determining its causes. Nonetheless, people like Claude-Nicolas Le Cat and Pierre-Aimé Lair, sought to determine the causes of these events and provide a logical explanation for their appearance. This article analyzes the various arguments used by scholars to help rationalize a phenomenon that was simultaneously a medical conundrum and a holdover from the age of marvels and wonders.

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Eyewitness Reports of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami from Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia

The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Revisited - Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering ◽

10.1007/978-1-4020-8609-0_30 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 473-495 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robin Spence ◽

Jason Palmer ◽

Regan Potangaroa

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Indian Ocean ◽

Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽

Eyewitness Reports

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Die Architekten Bruno und Max Taut

10.5771/9783786175056 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Unda Hörner

Keyword(s):

Weimar Republic ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Life Paths ◽

The Family ◽

Eyewitness Reports ◽

Large Housing Estates ◽

Post War ◽

Nazi Era ◽

Housing Estates

In the double biography, the Tauts have their say as brothers, parents and husbands. Letters, diaries and eyewitness reports, drawings and photos from the family album bring two artist personalities to life - and with them the fates of their wives and children. The two talented brothers made careers as architects in Berlin: Bruno (1880–1938) became known as the planner of large housing estates, Max (1884–1967) made a name for himself as an architect of the trade unions. Unda Hörner tells her closely connected life paths as a family story against the background of the Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi era and the post-war period.

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Miracle Eyewitness Reports

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-27771-9_200227-1 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-5 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Darren M. Slade

Keyword(s):

Eyewitness Reports

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Human Taxonomies: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish Travel in Asia and the Classification of Man

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s016511531900024x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 43 (02) ◽

pp. 218-242

Author(s):

Christina Skott

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

New Species ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Travel Literature ◽

Homo Sapiens ◽

East India Company ◽

Carl Linnaeus ◽

Eyewitness Reports

AbstractThis article looks at ways in which Swedish travel to Asia informed the classification of man in the work of Carl Linnaeus. In the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae (1758), Linnaeus made substantial changes to his earlier taxonomy of humans. Through two case studies, it is argued that these changes to a great extent were prompted by fresh Swedish eyewitness reports from China and Southeast Asia. The informants for the Homo asiaticus, a variety of Homo sapiens, and a proposed new species of humans, Homo nocturnus (or troglodytes), were all associated with the Swedish East India Company. The botanical contribution by men trained in the Linnaean method travelling on the company's ships has long been acknowledged. In contrast to the systematic collecting of botanical material, Swedish descriptions of Asia's human inhabitants were often inconclusive, reflecting the circumstances of the trade encounter. Linnaeus also relied on older observations made by countrymen, and his human taxonomies also highlight the role of travel literature in eighteenth-century anthropology.

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