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The Winonan

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Assessing the content of advice from practitioners claiming paranormal ability

This thesis focuses on both the development of methods for testing practitioners claiming paranormal abilities (i. e. astrologers, psychics and mediums) and the exploration of how they use various linguistic strategies to convince clients that they genuinely possess paranormal abilities. Paranormal claimants have been tested for decades with varying success. The results have provoked acrid debate, mainly focusing on the methodological issues. This thesis reviews the key issues in this debate, describes the formulation of a method of testing that aimed to prevent the many problems that have hindered past research, and how this was then used to test several professional practitioners from the main three paranormal domains. The empirical work examines the accuracy of the claimants then seeks to understand underlying linguistic causes for participants' acceptance of particular readings. Many researchers from the early 1900s involved primarily with mediumship were aware of natural psychological explanations for impressive alleged after-death communication. In addition, more recent research has examined the possible linguistic stratagems employed by pseudo-psychics to convince clients of apparent accuracy where there is none. To date this research has primarily focused on the Barnum Effect and taken a more process-oriented stance, manipulating various aspects of Barnum-type statements themselves (e. g. positive vs. negative wording) or the source (e. g. psychologist vs. psychic) to decipher the optimum conditions for acceptance. Little research, however, has examined the actual readings produced by claimants themselves. Taking it's lead from rhetorical psychology, and with a content analytic approach, this thesis examines the rhetoric of paranormal claimants using the actual readings produced in a controlled environment. The results from the accuracy tests did not support the existence of genuine astrological, psychic or mediumistic ability. Competing interpretations of these results are discussed, along with ways in which the methodology presented in the paper could be used to assess conceptually similar, but non-paranormal, contexts

Dead in the long room

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University LondonThis thesis comprises a crime novel, Dead in the Long Room, and an accompanying extended critical essay. Dead in the Long Room is a novel written in homage to the Golden Age of crime and the many writers that genre represents. It embodies Gulddal & Rolls’ (2016) notion of the creative-critical nexus - the idea that literary texts do not exist as distinct from critical endeavour, but are in themselves exercises in critical response. Dead in the Long Room is therefore to be conceived as what I have termed elsewhere (Green 2021) ‘enacted criticism’. The critical essay that follows the novel offers an extended critical commentary on and engagement with my processes as a writer in the production of the novel. Drawing on critical resources derived from inter alia Bruner, Barthes, Bakhtin and Todorov, it engages in sustained critical fashion with the genre of Golden Age detective fiction - a form that is eminently self-reflexive and that is frequently marked by a deep awareness of its own ‘constructedness’ - and the ways in which textual interaction is conceived. Taken together, the novel and the critical essay are considered as examples of the kinds of ‘poetics’ envisioned by Lasky (2013)

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The Observer [Volume IV, Issue 6]

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The Popular Policeman and Other Cases

In this compelling title, two distinguished scholars share their experiences as expert witnesses in cases ranging from eyewitness testimony, person identification and recovered memories, to false confessions, collaborative storytelling and causal attribution, in the context of various interrogation techniques and their ability to deliver reliable results. Each chapter describes in lucid, entertaining prose a representative case in the context of scholarly literature to date, showing how psychological expertise has been (and can be) used in a legal setting. The cases include petty and serious crime, from illegal gambling, infringed trademarks and risqué courtship behaviour, to honour killing and death on the climbing wall. The authors' findings and recommendations apply to legal systems worldwide. There is no other English-language textbook covering a similarly wide range of offences, and this volume will fill a gap in the existing literature and demonstrate how psychological expertise can be used in a much larger area than is often realised.Psychologisch onderzoek is voor de rechter niet altijd gemakkelijk toe te passen binnen de context van een strafrechtelijk of civiel geding. Inzichten in de werking van het geheugen, het gedrag, logisch denkvermogen en het nemen van beslissingen kunnen uitkomst bieden als er sprake is van valse voorwendselen, fraude, diefstal of zelfs moord, maar vaak is daar wel de toelichting van een deskundige voor nodig. Op onderhoudende en toegankelijke wijze beschrijven rechtspsychologen Willem Albert Wagenaar en Hans Crombag tot in detail vijftien representatieve zaken uit de Nederlandse rechtspraak, hun rol daarin als deskundige, en hoe het afliep. Naast de betrouwbaarheid van ooggetuigenverklaringen en bekentenissen is er aandacht voor de psychologische aspecten van minder gangbare onderwerpen zoals illegaal gokken, verwarrende consumentenvoorlichting en seksuele intimidatie. The Popular Policeman and Other Cases vult een belangrijke lacune in de bestaande literatuur over de psychologie in de rechtszaal. Niet eerder werd er buiten de Verenigde Staten in één boek zo uitgebreid en gedetailleerd aandacht besteed aan zoveel uiteenlopende zaken. Het boek is in eerste instantie geschreven voor het hoger onderwijs, maar ook buiten de collegezaal zal dit boek op de nodige belangstelling kunnen rekenen