the effect of silence in civil litigation is important in two cases: the silence of litigants (plaintiff and defendant) and silence in evidence of proof of claim. although the general rule is that silence cannot express the will and, therefore, is not entitled to the legal effects and any responsibility, but the silence of plaintiff and defendant has been deemed refusal and it has legal effect....

The primary focus of this study is Agostinho de Almeida Gato’s extensive account the celebrations held for acclamation John IV Portugal in 1641 Cochin. Drawing on studies Iberian monarchies as polycentric spaces, intellectual culture Estado da Índia and historiography early modern festival text analysed both a testimony to spectacle that was staged Cochin addressed Portugal. Concerning history ...

Background This paper investigates whether state legislators find testimony influential, to what extent testimony influences policy-makers’ decisions, and defines the features of testimony important in affecting policy-makers’ decisions.   Methods We used a mixed method approach to analyze responses from 862 state-level legislators in the United States (U.S.). Data were collected via a phone su...

Mechanisms for editing false events out of memory reports have fundamental implications for theories of false memory and for best practice in applied domains in which false reports must be minimized (e.g., forensic psychological interviews, sworn testimony). A mechanism posited in fuzzy-trace theory, recollection rejection, is considered. A process analysis of false-memory editing is presented,...

“sources of knowledge” is one of the significant topics in contemporary epistemology. epistemologists accept five sources of knowledge: perception, reason, introspection, testimony, and memory. this paper compares introspection, testimony and memory in mulla sadra and descartes’ philosophical systems. the two philosophers accept introspection, testimony and memory as the sources of knowledge. b...

BACKGROUND This paper investigates whether state legislators find testimony influential, to what extent testimony influences policy-makers' decisions, and defines the features of testimony important in affecting policy-makers' decisions. METHODS We used a mixed method approach to analyze responses from 862 state-level legislators in the United States (U.S.). Data were collected via a phone su...

background this paper investigates whether state legislators find testimony influential, to what extent testimony influences policy-makers’ decisions, and defines the features of testimony important in affecting policy-makers’ decisions.   methods we used a mixed method approach to analyze responses from 862 state-level legislators in the united states (u.s.). data were collected via a phone su...

One problem with eyewitnesses is that their memory is not always accurate. False details, or misinformation, may be unintentionally incorporated into an eyewitness's account of a crime, thereby reducing the validity of their testimony. The present study seeks to mitigate this misinformation effect by explicitly warning participants. However, instead of testing their memory with conventional lab...