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Feminist judgments: interrogating Zimbabwean judgments using anti-essentialist feminist legal theory
In 2004, the first feminist judgments project was launched by a group of Canadian lawyers and scholars. This group, calling themselves the Women's Court of Canada, published a series of six rewritten opinions of the Canadian Supreme Court interpreting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms …
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Judgments of Learning and Retrospective Confidence Judgments: A Qualitative Exploration of Difference in Processes
… and resolution between two similar confidence judgments – judgments of learning (JOLs) and retrospective confidence judgments (RCJs). These findings have led to competing theories of the processes involved in JOLs and RCJs, and whether they make use of the same processes or different processes. …
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A Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Judgments – Why did the Judgments Project (1992 – 2001) fail?
The ‘Judgments Project’ was the name given to the process of multilateral discussions and negotiations under the auspices of the Hague Conference on Private International Law which took place between 1992 and 2001. This project was a remarkable and important project for various reasons. One purpose …
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The Accuracy of Initial Trust Judgments
This dissertation is dedicated to answer the questions: are we able to achieve accuracy in our initial trust perceptions: study 1) and what mechanism may account for this accuracy: study 2)? The first study conducted was field based, using temporary student teams. I used the social relations model: …
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Context Effects in Differential Loudness Judgments
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Judgments of assertiveness: specific behavioral components
In an investigation of the nature of judgements of assertiveness, 20 university undergraduates, three clinical psychology graduate students, and two Ph.D. clinical psychologists observed a series of videotapes of actors engaging in assertive scenarios. Seven variables were rated; eye contact, …
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Trust Judgments and the Hindsight Bias Effect
… effect) is a consequence that often follows judgments under uncertainty. Two experiments examined participants' evaluations of trust outcomes to determine if and how judgments of trust might be susceptible to hindsight biases. Experiment 1 exposed participants to vignettes depicting a …
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Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Sequential Judgments
… the influence of prior on subsequent evaluative judgments in a sequential judgment situation. In most (written or oral) exam situations, the performances of different students are judged in a sequence. The basic idea, I started out from, was that in this case performances of different students to …
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Self-efficacy: Judgments of Ability or Willingness?
… college students were asked for efficacy judgments for limiting their heavy-drinking for increasing periods of time (e.g. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, etc.). Students were also asked for efficacy judgments for throwing a basketball into a hoop from increasing distances (e.g. 5 feet, 10 feet, 15 …
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The Development of Judgments and Beliefs about Homosexuality
This study assessed children's (5-year-olds, 7-8-year-olds, and 10-11-year-olds), adolescents' (13-14-year-olds), and their parents' beliefs about same-sex relationships. In particular, participants' beliefs about the acceptability and legal regulation of homosexuality, their beliefs about …
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EFFECTS OF TRENDS IN INFORMATION ON PREDICTIVE JUDGMENTS
… identifying factors underlying predictive judgments could be an important behavioral factor in manic-depression, anxiety, substance use, age effects, and understanding how income inequality affects decision making. To understand how people make predictive judgments, we conducted two …
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Noun countability judgments by Arabic speakers of English
… article and L1 transfer in L2 countability judgments by speakers of non-classifier languages, the current study investigates how Saudi EFL learners judge noun countability in English. The current study aims to find; (1) if countability judgments correlate with the learners’ use of the …
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Understanding and improving people’s judgments of synergistic risks
… in identifying valid measures of subjective risk judgments for combined hazards. Consequently, few firm conclusions can be made about the extent to which people understand synergistic risks.<br/>This thesis presents four original research papers that aim to provide greater insight into peoples’ …
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The Cognitive and Affective Determinants of Political Judgments
Recent research in political psychology has emphasized the unique role of beliefs and episodic emotions as determinants of attitude toward a political candidate. A conceptual distinction between "beliefs" and "emotions" has been argued on the basis of the finding that evaluative consistency …
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Value Components of Teachers' Judgments of Educational Objectives
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An investigation of metalinguistic judgments in Broca's aphasia
… with Broca's aphasia to make metalinguistic judgments concerning what was or was not a violation of linguistic rule usage within both the semantic and syntactic domains. A total of 20 white agrammatic and normal speakers, ages 33 to 78, were asked to judge, revise, and explain a corpus of …
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INVESTIGATING CAUSAL SELECTION: CAUSAL JUDGMENTS BETWEEN NORMS AND EXPECTATIONS
… account of the effects of norms on our causal judgments, but also explains them in a way that is consistent with an interventionist theory of causality, thereby providing a justification for a normative analysis that encompasses causal selection. According to this hypothesis, the role of the …
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