This paper will explore how breakthroughs in neuroscience, specifically neuroimaging, can be used to validate eyewitness testimony. Though the use of direct evidence is decreasing, due to findings of numerous wrongful convictions that were based on eyewitness testimonies, it is still an element of many criminal trials today. Cross-examination is used to validate eyewitness testimony because mem...

What leads children to moralize actions that cause no apparent harm? We hypothesized that adults' verbal instruction ("testimony"), as well as emotions such as disgust, would influence children's moralization of apparently harmless actions. To test this hypothesis, 7-year-old children were asked to render moral judgments of novel, seemingly victimless, body-directed or nature-directed actions a...

What leads children to moralize actions that cause no apparent harm? We hypothesized that adults’ verbal instruction (“testimony”), as well as emotions such as disgust, would influence children’s moralization of apparently harmless actions. To test this hypothesis, seven-year-old children were asked to render moral judgments of novel, seemingly victimless, body-directed or nature-directed actio...

Psychiatric expert testimony is challenging in cases of violence when the accused person submits a defence that he or she was so overwhelmed by emotions triggered by an upsetting event that his or her violent behaviour was an uncontrollable consequence of the emotions. This defence is usually presented in terms of an automatism particularly not attributed to a mental disorder. Clouding testimon...

This testimony considers the current science and status of the fish populations of the Columbia River System. 2 My name is James Anderson; I am an Associate Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington. My research over the past two decades has involved Columbia River salmon and the influence of the hydrosystem and climate on the survival and productiv...

In line with years of tradition, soldiers young and old come together at the local pub or hall to swap war stories of time in the trenches. For the forensic clinician, the trenches represent the hard-fought battles during expert testimony. As it turns out, our pub was a social gathering at the 2012 meeting of the American Psychology Law Society in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The University of Alabam...

Chairman Shea, Vice Chairman Reinsch and distinguished members of the Commission, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the topic of China's innovation capabilities. This is my first opportunity to testify before this body, and I am honored to have such a chance. There are four central points to be made when considering China's innovation capabilities and the challenge they present for th...

a 4 : 1 pp. 27 – 43, 2008 TESTIMONY, TRANSMISSION, AND SAFETY