‘Illegal labour practices, trafficking and exploitation’: an introduction to the special issue

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE Pseudoscientific Policing Practices and Beliefs

Within policing there is widespread promotion and use of questionable psychologically rooted practices as well as the acceptance of erroneous beliefs about police work. For instance, the articles composing this special issue show that dubious practices—hypnotic interviewing, polygraph examination, criminal profiling, critical incident stress debriefing, and detecting of deception solely on the ...

An Introduction to the Special Issue

Special Issue Introduction: Semantic Role Labeling: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Semantic role labeling, the computational identification and labeling of arguments in text, has become a leading task in computational linguistics today. Although the issues for this task have been studied for decades, the availability of large resources and the development of statistical machine learning methods have heightened the amount of effort in this field. This special issue presents se...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Jonas and Cesario Introduction to Special Issue Introduction to the Special Issue: Situated Social Cognition

119 © 2013 Guilford Publications, Inc. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to either Kai Jonas, Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Weesperplein 4, 1018XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected]; or Joseph Cesario, Psychology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA, E-mail: [email protected]. JONAS AND CESARIO INTR...