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One societal belief widelyheld at the start of the twenty first century is that we should do everything we can to nurture people’s self esteem. High self esteem is usualy viewed as a forerunner of success and accomplishment, ad low self esteem is seen as a problem to be remedied. Read the rest of this entry »

Aldrich  Ames was given routine lie detector tests periodically by his employer, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, on every occasion he passed the test. Yet at the very same time his truthfulness was being vouched for by the lie detector, he was involved in high – level spying for the russians.

          No surprise, at least among researchers who study the validity of lie deterctor test results. Repeatedly, lie detectors have proved to ve unreliable indicators of lying Read the rest of this entry »

Wanted  : one not so – smart police officer

          Although that’s not how the advertisement for police, officer in New London, Connecticut, said it might as well have. The official hiring policy prevents people who score too low or too high on an employment test administered by the town to be considered for a position as police officer (Allen, 1999; see Figure 7-10). Read the rest of this entry »

Guilty Of Murder In The First Degree

          That was the jury’s verdict in the case of George Franklin, Sr, who was charged with murdering his daughter’s plyamate. But this case ws different from -  most other murder cases. It was based on memories that had been repressed for twenty years. Franklin’s daughter claimed that she had forgotten everything she had once known about her father’s crime until two years earlier, when she began to have flashbacks of the event. Gradually, though, the memories became clearer in her mind, until she recalled her father lifting a rock over h is head and then seeing her friend lying on the ground, covered with blood. On the basis of her memories, her father was convicted – but then later cleared of the crime following an appeal of the conviction. Read the rest of this entry »

For four years, Hans_peter Balzmann, a lawyer suffering from Lau Gehrig’s disease, was locked within his own body. Paralyzed by the disease and unable to eat, speak, or even breathe on his own, he had relied on a respirator and feeding tube to survive. Although his mind functioned normally, he was unable to communicate with the outside world. Read the rest of this entry »