The field of children's testimony is in turmoil, but a resolution to seemingly intractable debates now appears attainable. In this review, we place the current disagreement in historical context and describe psychological and legal views of child witnesses held by scholars since the turn of the 20th century. Although there has been consistent interest in children's suggestibility over the past ...

We are pleased to respond to Brock’s (2008) comment on our article (Manning, Levine, & Collins, September 2007) examining the impact of the 38-witnesses story on the social psychology of helping, particularly because this response allows us to thank the various people who have contacted us following our article’s publication to engage us in a number of constructive, scholarly debates. Here we r...

The two witnesses of Rev 11 : 312, also designated in vs. 4 as "the two olive trees" and "the two lampstands," have most frequently been interpreted as representing two personages-Moses and Elijah, James and John, Peter and Paul, or others.' The identification with Moses and Elijah (or with their eschatological counterparts) has been especially tempting because of the mention in vs. 6 of the wi...

What makes Jehovah's Witnesses tick? What motivates practitioners of medicine? How is benevolent human behaviour to be interpreted? The explanation that fear of censure, mind-control techniques or enlightened self-interest are the real motivators of human conduct is questioned. Those who believe that man was created in "God's image", hold that humanity has the potential to rise above selfishly ...