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Derogating innocent victims
Drawing on just-world theory and research into the suppression and justification of prejudice, we propose that the use of relative compared with absolute measures of an innocent victim’s character enables observers to...
Derogating innocent victims
Drawing on just-world theory and research into the suppression and justification of prejudice, we propose that the use of relative compared with absolute measures of an innocent victim’s character enables observers to...
Aquinas’s opposition to killing the innocent and its distinctiveness within the Christian just war tradition
DH Weiss
Jan 16, 2017
This essay argues that Aquinas's position regarding the killing of innocent people differs significantly from other representatives of the Christian just war tradition. While his predecessors, notably Augustine, as well as his...
Victims, Vignettes, and Videos
Research during the 1960s found that observers could be moved enough by an innocent victim’s suffering to derogate their character. However, recent research has produced inconsistent evidence for this effect. We conducted the...
Victims, Vignettes, and Videos
Research during the 1960s found that observers could be moved enough by an innocent victim’s suffering to derogate their character. However, recent research has produced inconsistent evidence for this effect. We conducted the...
Modelling the view factor of a ‘grain-like’ observer near a tilted pool fire via planar approximation approach
Modelling the view factor, F, of a ‘grain-like’ observer near a tilted pool fire assumed to be cylindrical in shape, requires the observer (on the same ground level as the pool fire) to be as close as possible to the flame...
Modelling the view factor of a ‘grain-like’ observer near a tilted pool fire via planar approximation approach
Modelling the view factor, F, of a ‘grain-like’ observer near a tilted pool fire assumed to be cylindrical in shape, requires the observer (on the same ground level as the pool fire) to be as close as possible to the flame...
The Grizzly, November 4, 1988
Jean M. Kiss, Michelle L. Grande, Lora L. Hart, Richard P. Richter, Veronica Algeo, Neil Schafer, Dorothy O'Malley
Jan 01, 0001
Continued Controversy Plagues Campus Division III's Founding Athletics Curriculum IDEAS Fire Faculty Drive to be Closed Letter: Guilty Till Proven Innocent: Democracy at Ursinus College Conference a Great Success Bear Pack...
Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania newspaper John French career day campus security field hockey cross country Women's Studies Diversity Pfahler Hall illegal drugs Curriculum George A. Drake college athletics cultural history Higher Education Liberal Studies Social History United States History
Published by: Ursinus College
Inter-Agency Delivery System
This paper examines the effect of inter-agency delivery systems on the agility of public sector organizations and ease of doing business. The empirical focus is the Nigerian public sector, in relation to the implications of...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The Grizzly, May 5, 1992
Eric Foellmer, Karen Strickler, Denise Moretz, Pamela Wilson, Kristin White, Erika Compton, David Day, Judd Woytek, Gar Donecker, Annette Rawls, Nancy Costello, Erik Moore, Paul Gagne, Ellen Sylvester, Harley David Rubin, Claire Erfle, Robert J. Pohl
Jan 01, 0001
Smells Like Summer Psychology Conference a Success Whitians Recognize Honor Students Theatre Workshop Presentations Lily Redner Speaks: Lessons of The Holocaust Record Review: Tori Amos Movie Review: Death Stalker II ...
Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania newspaper lacrosse Basketball Centennial Conference Rodney King Waste disposal campus sculptures Jacob Medinger Lily Redner Songfest Whitians fundraising cultural history Higher Education Liberal Studies Social History United States History
Published by: Ursinus College
VGEA
Paul E Oluniyi, Fehintola Ajogbasile, Judith Oguzie, Jessica Uwanibe, Adeyemi Kayode, Anise Happi, Alphonsus Ugwu, Testimony Olumade, Olusola Ogunsanya, Philomena Ehiaghe Eromon, Onikepe Folarin, Simon DW Frost, Jonathan Heeney, Christian T Happi
Nov 09, 2021
Next generation sequencing (NGS)-based studies have vastly increased our understanding of viral diversity. Viral sequence data obtained from NGS experiments are a rich source of information, these data can be used to study their...
»Rape« in the Syntax of 2 Samuel 11
J Andruska
May 10, 2017
Scholars continue to debate whether Bathsheba was an innocent victim of David’s lust, a willing participant in an affair or a calculating seductress manipulating him into it. Many arguments have been put forward in support of...
The Effect of Viewing Distance on Empirical Discriminability and the Confidence–Accuracy Relationship for Eyewitness Identification
Robert F. Lockamyeir, Curt A. Carlson, Alyssa R. Jones, Maria A. Carlson, Dawn R. Weatherford
May 01, 2020
The distance from which an eyewitness views a perpetrator is a critical factor for eyewitness identification, but has received little research attention. We presented three mock-crime videos to participants, varying distance to...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
The Grizzly, January 28, 1991
Krishni Patrick, Sara Jacobson, Erika Compton, Kathleen Bowers, Diane Gabel, Becky Carreon, Mary Frances Woodall, Judd Woytek, Cassandra Yutzy, Jen Stritch, Shawn Glancy, Terri Johnson, Chris Major, Trey Gelston, Steven Grubb, Deb Martin, Tonya Ugoretz, Eric Bleickardt, Reed Coats, Jennifer Rausin, Amy Flemming, Harley David Rubin, Richard P. Richter, John Wickersham, Jeneen Flamer
Jan 01, 0001
Policies and Statistics, A Security Concern: New Quad Regulations; Crime Report Released Sonia Sanchez: Poet for Peace Gulf Dialogue Continues Independence Dogs Financial Aid Month "You Asked for it: You Got It!!" New Quad...
Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania newspaper Gulf War Linda Fisher Waste disposal Racism Basketball track team Swimming Berman Museum of Art Ian McEwan campus security Who's who Martin Luther King Jr. Wismer dining hall Financial Aid service dogs student government Paisley Hall Beardwood Hall Sonia Sanchez cultural history Higher Education Liberal Studies Social History United States History
Published by: Ursinus College
The Effect of Viewing Distance on Empirical Discriminability and the Confidence–Accuracy Relationship for Eyewitness Identification
Robert F. Lockamyeir, Curt A. Carlson, Alyssa R. Jones, Maria A. Carlson, Dawn R. Weatherford
May 01, 2020
The distance from which an eyewitness views a perpetrator is a critical factor for eyewitness identification, but has received little research attention. We presented three mock-crime videos to participants, varying distance to...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Jury Bias: Myth and Reality
Callie K. Terris
Jan 01, 0001
Juries are often thought of as being fair and crucial to producing fair trials. Things such as scientific jury selection (SJS), peremptory challenges, jury size, and jury nullification skew jury verdicts by introducing biases...
jury bias scientific jury selection peremptory challenges jury nullification jury size jury process voir dire group dynamics Criminal Procedure Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
The Effect of Viewing Distance on Empirical Discriminability and the Confidence–Accuracy Relationship for Eyewitness Identification
Robert F. Lockamyeir, Curt A. Carlson, Alyssa R. Jones, Maria A. Carlson, Dawn R. Weatherford
May 01, 2020
The distance from which an eyewitness views a perpetrator is a critical factor for eyewitness identification, but has received little research attention. We presented three mock-crime videos to participants, varying distance to...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Priority, Overreaching and Surprises under the Land Registration Act 2002
MJ Dixon
Jan 26, 2017
Before the advent of title registration, if a transaction was tainted by a vitiating factor, one would ask whether the transaction was void or voidable and, if the former, the nemo dat rule would apply and the innocent victim...
Capital Punishment: Analyzing the Demise of the Death Penalty's Usefulness
Emma Reyes
Jan 01, 0001
As there are evident flaws within the practice of capital punishment, I urge the United States federal government to question ways in which they should change how the death penalty is implemented into law. I propose that...
capital punishment death penalty Financial impact racial bias inhumane treatment deterrence Ethics and Political Philosophy Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
Drone Forensics
Patrick Hung, Khalifa Al-Room, Farkhund Iqbal, Thar Baker, Babar Shah, Benjamin Yankson, Aine MacDermott
Jan 01, 2021
Drones (a.k.a. unmanned aerial vehicles – UAV) have become a societal norm in our daily lives. The ability of drones capture high-quality photos from an aerial view and store and transmit such data presents a multi-facet...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
An Undemocratic Turn?
Anna-Maria Hartmann
Mar 29, 2019
EVER SINCE, IN THE FIRST FLUSH OF THE WORLD’S DAWN, Kronos ate his own children and had his testicles cut off for it, myth and violence have been inseparable. Explanations for this are manifold, and none of them makes us look...
How does nationalist selfishness creep into cosmopolitan protection?
Timo Kivimäki
Jan 31, 2019
This article investigates how selfish justifications enter cosmopolitan rationales in the political plane of the discourse. It makes sense of the ways in which selfish ideas are allowed to meddle in and merge with morally-based...
'Child trafficking’ moral panic
Alinka Gearon
Jun 01, 2015
‘Child trafficking’ has recently been critically positioned within moral panic theory by authors such as Westwood (2010) and Cree et al. (2014) making links between historical and present day presentations of this social issue....
Colombia's Fork in the Road? President Santos' Treaty with The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Ella Adriana Chirinos
Aug 22, 2017
Colombia is considered Latin America’s most stable democracy; meanwhile, it is war-torn by the internal conflict with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The armed conflict with the FARC has...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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