Is There Touch in the Game of Twister®? The Effects of Innocuous Touch and Suggestive Questions on Children's Eyewitness Memory

Preschool children (ages 48–70 months, N = 48) experienced 2 to-be-remembered events (i.e., the games Twister^® and Shapes) that included either innocuous bodily touch or no touch. Participants were interviewed 7 days later and asked direct (“Did Amy kiss you?”) or suggestive “tag” questions (“Amy kissed you, didn't she?”) equated for content. Results indicated that children who were innocuously touched were no more likely to falsely assent to “abuse-related” touch questions (e.g., “Amy touched your bottom, didn't she?”) than were children who were not touched. However, children who were asked tag questions responded at chance levels, thereby making high errors of commission in response to abuse-touch questions relative to their no-tag counterparts who responded to “abuse questions” accurately 93% of the time. Children who were asked tag questions assented at a higher rate to general forensic questions (“Amy took your picture, didn't she?”) than did children asked direct questions, and children assented at higher rates to “abuse-touch” questions than to general forensic questions. Results are discussed in terms of prior research on interviewing techniques and adult influence on children's testimony.     

MCMI Results for Batterers: Gondolf Replies to Dutton's Response

Dutton [Dutton, D. (2003). J. Fam. Violence 18: 253–255] dismissed Gondolf's MCMI subscale results from batterer program participants because of the inadequacies of the MCMI and how it was used. In this reply, Gondolf argues that Dutton's criticisms of the MCMI are debatable and the criticisms of the study methods are mistaken. It remains curious, to the author, why evidence for the abusive personality is not more evident in personality scales.     

试论惩治邪教组织犯罪的基本方针

“法轮功”邪教组织反人类、反社会、反科学,对我国的经济建设、社会秩序和政治稳定造成了严重干扰,所以必须继续开展对“法轮功”邪教组织的斗争,取缔邪教组织,防范和惩治邪教活动。惩治邪教组织犯罪应采取的基本方针是:提高警惕,严肃对待,防止偏差,谨慎处置。     

Mix-Ups, Mistake and Moral Judgement: Recent Developments in U.K. Law on Assisted Conception

Hard cases make bad law. In a matter of months, two such cases involving assisted reproduction have appeared before the U.K. High Court and legislation has been enacted. The common threads between them are consent and fatherhood. The first case concerns a ‘mistake’ resulting in sperm from the wrong man being used to create an embryo for a couple and the second the revocation of consent by a man to his former partner being allowed to use an embryo they created together. Furthermore, Parliament has intervened, passing legislation which sets out when sperm from a dead man may be used by his former partner to generate an embryo. This note argues that the three developments cannot be reconciled with one another and that the cases in particular, decided on a narrow legal basis, convey contradictory messages, leading in at least one instance to a gross injustice.     

论农村宅基地使用权制度

农村宅基地使用权是我国特有的一项独立的用益物权,是农村居民在依法取得的集体经济组织所有的宅基地上建造房屋及其附属设施,并对宅基地进行占有、使用和有限制处分的权利.它具有严格的身份性、无偿使用性、永久使用性、从属性及范围的严格限制性等特点.其取得方式有原始取得与继受取得,消灭形式有绝对消灭与相对消灭.农村宅基地使用权人享有权利并负担义务.我国农村宅基地使用权制度存在许多缺陷,亟待完善.     

公安机关应对征地引发的群体性事件的探讨

征地引发的群体性事件是在土地征用过程中利益受损的农民采取常规手段难以维护自身利益的情况下发生的集体越轨行为,严重影响了广大农村乃至整个社会的和谐与稳定。公安机关应对这类事件应当坚持“情报信息主导群体性事件的应对”的理念,找准“维护社会稳定与维护被征地农民的根本利益”的结合点,加强对征地过程的全程监测,及时疏导被征地农民的对立情绪,科学合理地评估事件的性质及发展趋势,控制事件局势,平息群体性事件的事态,恢复正常的社会秩序。     

行政议价的法律性质及其成因分析

当前广泛存在的行政议价大多属于滥用职权或者超越职权的行为。造成行政议价广泛存在的原因主要包括立法过程博弈不充分、部门利益化驱动、法院司法审查权的过度狭小。要禁止行政议价,关键是要消除行政议价的成因。     

对廉租公寓建设的思考

在我国城市化不断加快的背景下,以暂住人口为主体的城市过渡群体具有特殊的住房需求。由于城市住房供应结构尚不完善,过渡群体对过渡房的需求主要由城中村出租房和部分社会出租房提供。随着城中村改造的完成,过渡房需求将存在供给主体的缺失。因此,需要建立以福利性为主、部分微利性为辅的多层次、多类型的廉租公寓,通过政府主导,设立规划、建设、土地、财政等多部门联动协调的专职部门,进行多渠道筹集资金,结合城中村改造进行统筹规划、合理布局,并加强后期公共管理与服务工作。     

国际投资领域国民待遇原则适用的例外分析

国民待遇原则作为一项相对待遇标准,其法律价值和意义不仅在于防止歧视性,还意味着适用于本国投资者的所有法律体系都将同样适用于外国投资者.本文通过对国际投资法实践中国民待遇原则适用的例外规定的具体分析,认为国民待遇适用的投资政策性和一致性,势必要求东道国尤其是发展中国家,慎重选择国民待遇的适用范围,明确例外规则的重要性,从而制订出适合本国国情的投资政策.     

Do Academic and Social Goals Predict Planned Alcohol Use Among College-Bound High School Graduates?

Actively pursuing important goals predicts positive affect and well-being (Emmons, 1986, J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 51: 1058–1068; Emmons and King, 1988, J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 54: 1040–1048; Salmela-Aro and Nurmi, 1997, J. Adult Dev. 4: 179–188). College-bound high school graduates (n=943) completed the ULTRA Orientation Survey prior to college. Planned alcohol use differed by gender, fraternity/sorority participation, and Honors membership. Students who appraised academic goals as more important and less difficult/stressful planned to consume less alcohol in their 1st year of college. Greater importance and lower difficulty/stressfulness of social goals predicted more planned drinking. Relationships of personal goals with drinking remained after controlling for group differences, and academic and social goal importance predicted plans to drink after controlling for alcohol use during high school senior year. The discussion focuses on the impact of goal appraisals on risk behavior, niche selection during the transition to college, and implications for the prevention of heavy drinking.