Confirming False Memories: Social Construction of “Useful” Meanings

1998 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 536-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Fourie
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Age Regression ◽  
Recent Case Study ◽  
Historical Truth

Data from a recent case study is presented to illustrate how false memories are socially constructed in the present and how they fulfill a function for the system in which such construction takes place. Based on the dubious assumption that hypnotic age-regression brings forth the historical “truth” about past events, hypnosis was misused as part of this construction, even while the outcome of the regression had to be distorted to provide confirmation of the particular memory.

Post-fire analysis of pre-fire mapping of fire-risk: A recent case study from Mt. Carmel (Israel)

2011 ◽  
Vol 262 (7) ◽  
pp. 1184-1188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shlomit Paz ◽  
Yohay Carmel ◽  
Faris Jahshan ◽  
Maxim Shoshany
Keyword(s):  
Fire Risk ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Recent Case Study

scholarly journals Language Practices as Religious Innovation: The Case of Pentecostal Charismatic Churches in Xenophobic Contexts

2020 ◽  
pp. 239693932095156
Author(s):  
Ignatius Swart ◽  
Elina Hankela ◽  
Henrietta Nyamnjoh
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Recent Case Study ◽  
South African Cities

In the authors’ recent case-study research of migrant-dominated Pentecostal charismatic churches (PCCs) in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, language emerged as a prominent feature of religious practice, suggesting a positive correlation between experiences of xenophobia and religious innovation. This perspective is developed through the identification and discussion of two interlinked themes that surfaced from a closer analysis of the findings: (1) belonging and diversity and (2) evangelization. These two themes are assessed through the prism of religious innovation.

NGOs, Donors, and the State in Bangladesh

1997 ◽  
Vol 554 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID J. LEWIS
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
External Resources ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
World Bank Report ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Case Study

This article examines nongovernmental organization (NGO) partnership issues in the light of a 1996 World Bank report that seeks to promote a greater level of partnership between government and NGOs. The first part of the article briefly reviews Bangladesh's now well-known NGO sector. The continuing status of independent Bangladesh as a major recipient of international aid has created an environment in which the growth of most private voluntary development agencies is directly linked with the provision of external resources. While the World Bank report urges closer cooperation between NGOs and government, it ignores the fact that many existing partnerships are often of a dependent character. The second part of this article presents a recent case study of NGO-government linkages in aquaculture. The purpose is to examine the realities of the current rhetoric of NGO-government partnership that are found to be driven primarily by resource priorities.

scholarly journals The social construction of refugees & asylum-seekers: a case study of South Africa.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Anne McDonough McDonough
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
South African ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social

Refugees/asylum-seekers are socially constructed as being economically, politically and culturally threatening to the nation-state in which they seek asylum. Evidence of this social construction can be found in media, statements by public officials and in opinion polls. By synthesizing the results of research we can identify the commonalities amongst discourses from different nation-states. This allows us to see how refugees/asylum- eekers serve nation building in general. A case study of South Africa is used to show how this discourse relates to the South African nation-building exercise, with particular references to the xenophobic violence of May 2008. What emerges from the case study is that despite evidence that this framework is a good fit for thinking critically about instances of xenophobia in South Africa, there is also evidence of a counter discourse about refugees/asylum-seekers that casts them as deserving of compassion and generosity.

scholarly journals The new psychology of expert witness procedure

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Chin ◽  
Mehera San Roque ◽  
Rory McFadden
Keyword(s):  
Expert Witness ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Expert Witnesses ◽  
Expert Evidence ◽  
Reporting Process ◽  
Recent Case Study ◽  
Pro Forma ◽  
Ethical Responsibilities

Can procedural reforms effectively regulate expert witnesses? Expert procedures, like codes of conduct and court appointed experts, remain controversial among academics and courts. Much of this discussion, however, has been divorced from the science of the reforms. In this article, the authors draw from emerging work in behavioural ethics and metascience that studies procedures analogous to those that are being used in courts. This work suggests that procedures can be effective, as they have been in science, if directed at key vulnerabilities in the research and reporting process. The authors’ analysis of the metascientific and behavioural ethical literature also suggests several nuances in how expert evidence procedure ought to be designed and employed. For instance, codes of conduct require specific and direct wording that experts cannot interpret as ethically permissive. Further, drawing on a recent case study, courts have an important role to play in establishing a culture that takes codes as serious ethical responsibilities, and not simply pro forma.

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