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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Truth-telling"”.
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Truth Telling Beyond Borders: An African Perspective
… as primordial principles? In some communities, truth-telling is one of the moral principles unquestioningly inherited from the West. The dissertation will try to compare African and Western perspectives. The African perspective has been chosen to explore through this search hoping that such …
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Problems in communication : truth-telling and informed consent
This thesis entitled 'Problems in Communication: Truth-telling and Informed Consent' attempts to explore some difficulties generated by any breakdown in communication, no matter how trivial, within health-care. The main concern is with the ethical implications of these breakdowns, as well as their …
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Economic experiments on truth-telling, information aggregation, and income inequality
This thesis contains three chapters employing controlled economic experiments. The first chapter studies to what extent laboratory measures of cheating generalize to the field. I present a novel measure that allows for individual level observations of cheating, and I relate decisions made in this …
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Comics and/as Documentary: the implications of graphic truth-telling
… Shared concerns include conventions, truth-claims and trust, and the limitations of representation as verisimilitude. Mindful not to overstate correspondence with animated and inherently moving image forms, however, this contribution explicitly concerns documentary in comics form: as …
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Truth Telling: Exploring Sexuality in Widowed and Single Older Black Women
… and <em>I live in a paradox</em>. Truth telling recorded the women’s experiences and their pursuit of social autonomy and sexual expression as older Black women.</p> <p>This study uncovered several significant insights on the meaning that older single and widowed women ascribe to …
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Truth-telling and mythmaking in post-Soviet Russia : pernicious historical ideas, mass education, and interstate conflict
Can pernicious views about history exacerbate conflict among states, and if so, how? How can we prevent such ideas from emerging, or dampen their more malevolent effects? Despite a long history of scholarly writing on nationalism that assumes that distorted, mythologized history can be dangerous, …
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Freedom as the Way of Life: Power, Truth-Telling, and the Politics of Michel Foucault’s Critical Philosophy
Since 2016, the proliferation of post-truth discourse has created a condition that affects the order of democracy in the west. Though many scholars have explored this condition through various frameworks, one of the topics that is rarely investigated is the new character of freedom and truth, as …
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Theorizing 'Transitional Justice'
… that non-prosecutorial forms of justice like truth-telling are better suited for post-conflict societies. This debate was eventually settled, at least in the field, by a belief that post-conflict societies require both criminal prosecutions and truth-telling. More recently, the debate over …
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A critical-theoretic study of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission : with reference to the work of Jurgen Habermas
… offensives.I argue that the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) must be judged in relation to the outcomes that its commissioners attempted to promote. Following a reading of the works of Habermas I argue that it possible to specify the outcomes that would make it …
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Developing Perfection: Understanding and Redefining Photography in a Digital Age
… images retaining an ethotic dwelling place as truth-telling forms of visual communication.
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BECAUSE: A Son’s Odyssey to Expose a CIA Coverup and Find the Father He Never Knew
… are inexplicably classified, his journey for the truth begins.Through archival and field research across two continents, James learns about events that shaped his father's love for God, family, country, duty, and truth, as well as a CIA cover-up of his father’s death. As the details of a love …
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Examining Institutional History Narratives Through a Critical Whiteness Framework
… groups. These events coupled with the lack of truth-telling around the roles of Black and African American people and other minoritized communities within the development and prosperity of colleges and universities has centered history as focal point in the diversity, equity, and inclusion …
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Baptizing the nation with tears : political forgiveness in South Africa
… as forgiveness theory, political reconciliation, truth-telling, apology, amnesty, restorative and retributive justice, transitional democracy, post-traumatic disorders, and reparations for injustice, a Drama of Political Forgiveness in Five Acts is offered as a model for a national forgiveness …
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Revolutionary style : parrēsia and the rhetoric of self-care in the autobiography of Angela Davis.
… triumph. To this end, I examine two modes of truth-telling that appear in An Autobiography—political parrēsia and the philosophical parrēsia of self-writing. From these analyses I turn towards a broader consideration of the self-care and how Davis utilizes the erotic as a resource of …
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Three Essays on Moral Self-Regulation of Honesty and Impression Management
… the domain of honesty or more precisely, if the truth and lies are told in such a way as to balance each other out. After manipulating participants’ moral balances (either positively or negatively), rates of truth-telling are compared to a neutral baseline scenario. Since neither moral licensing …
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computer-aided mechanism design
… logical correctness requirements (for example, truth-telling) on the desired mechanism. A program synthesis algorithm is now used to automatically search a large space of candidate mechanisms and find one that satis es the requirements. The algorithm is based on a reduction to automated …
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Essays on the design and targeting of financial products : evidence from field experiments in India
… from mechanism design can be used to elicit truthful reports. To answer the first question, I ask respondents to rank their entrepreneur peers on various metrics of business profitability and growth, borrower reliability, and household financial activity. I find that the information provided …
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The Theory of Rights of Bartolomé de Las Casas: A dialogue between Las Casas and Locke as forerunners of human rights
… foundational for all others, and his concern for truth-telling and documenting injustices to foster a society that respects the rights of individuals. An original argument I advance in my dissertation is that Las Casas’ relationship with the natural law tradition was more complex than has been …
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Coalitional game with opinion exchange
… has been considered. 2. When players are truth-telling, the problem of opinion consensus is decoupled from the coalitional game. However, interesting dynamics arise when players are strategic in the consensus phase. Assuming that all players are rational, we show that, if influential …
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The Klondike Memory Project: Klondike Memory Project: Race, Counter-Memory, and Planning Processes
… thesis, I propose that memory work and acts of truth-telling offer communities that have experienced racial planning and state erasure a pathway toward acquiring justice and repairing structural harm by helping them reaffirm their identities, assert their humanity, hold perpetrators of harm …
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