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Police use 'extreme' levels of interviewing tactics to obtain confessions
This was the finding of a study published today, Monday 13 September, in Legal and Criminological Psychology, by Detective-Chief Inspector John Pearse of New Scotland Yard and Gisli Gudjonsson of the Institute of Psychiatry, London. view more (1999-09-06)
Helping the police with their enquiries
There are fundamental differences in interrogation techniques between police in the US and in England and Wales, according to Professor Ray Bull, Head of Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester. The US has developed a culture of breaking people down so that they confess to crimes, a practice which appears to have been taken to extremes... view more... (2004-07-26)
Students air views on science
A group of graduate students at the University of Cambridge has been awarded a £7,000 grant to promote science over the airwaves. The project is part of a new scheme run by the Biological and Biotechnological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) which aims to raise public awareness of science and its relevance to everyday life. Three students,... view more... (2000-03-14)
Proactive, personalized telephone counseling can help teen smokers to quit
Personalized, proactive telephone counseling centered on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral skills training has been found to favorably impact quit rates among teen smokers, according to a pair of studies published online October 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. view more (2009-10-13)
Interviewing Technique Reduces Risk for Binge Drinking and Unplanned Pregnancies
A University of Virginia Health System researcher and colleagues have just published findings showing that just a few targeted counseling sessions had a notably positive impact on women at high risk for binge drinking, unplanned pregnancy, and exposure to alcohol during pregnancy. view more (2007-01-04)
Spending time in the intensive care unit can traumatize kids
Children who spend time in the intensive care unit of a hospital can be traumatized by the experience even months after returning home. Dr. Janet Rennick from the Research Institute of The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre and her colleagues have developed the Children's Critical Illness Impact Scale to measure... view more... (2008-09-04)
New interview technique could help police spot deception
Shifting uncomfortably in your seat? Stumbling over your words? Can't hold your questioner's gaze? Police interviewing strategies place great emphasis on such visual and speech-related cues, although new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and undertaken by academics at the University of Portsmouth casts doubt on... view more... (2007-06-08)
How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
Stories in their own words from men and women directly caught up in debates and controversies over threats from technologies to themselves and their environment are to be recorded and analysed in new research sponsored by the ESRC. view more (2005-01-26)
Teen smoking-cessation trial first to achieve significant quit rates
For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month... view more... (2009-10-13)
Developing better methods of 'blinding' doctors and patients in clinical trials
When trials are carried out to assess the effectiveness of a drug, it is an important to have a control group of patients who are not given the drug. view more (2006-10-31)
Teens' Internet confidence lacking
Using the Internet at school for research can lead to teenagers losing their confidence and becoming frustrated, a new study suggests. Most teenagers lack the more complex information gathering skills necessary for internet searching, ultimately using the Internet very inefficiently, says Dr Alison Pickard of Northumbria University who has just... view more... (2003-07-21)
Disappearing vowels 'caught' on tape in US midwest
Try to pronounce the words "caught" and "cot." If you're a New Yorker by birth, the two words will sound as different as their spellings. But if you grew up in California, you probably pronounce them identically. view more (2009-10-27)
AHRB Awards £1 million for ICT Methods Network
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) is awarding £1 million to a team at King's College London to support a new initiative which will promote and disseminate the use of ICT in UK Arts and Humanities research. view more (2004-10-21)
Needle-free immunizations
Samir Mitragotri, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says the myriad shortcomings of injections have led to active research and development of needle-free methods of immunization. view more (2005-12-02)
Fighting flu: Stricter hand hygiene in schools only a short-term measure
Increased hand hygiene in primary schools is only a short-term measure in preventing infections such as H1N1 from spreading. view more (2009-10-15)
Research into research can be improved
The methods used to evaluate the quality of research can be far more accurate and far-reaching, according to a new doctoral thesis on bibliometrics from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. view more (2006-11-20)
Christmas shopping habits examined by sociology student
Done all your Christmas shopping yet? Or will you be one of the many people still frantically running round the shops on Christmas Eve? Lucia Glover, a sociology student at the University of Sussex, is doing her final year project on the topic of Christmas shopping and examining the different ways people approach it. "I'm trying to find out... view more... (2002-11-27)
Binge drinking in childhood and adolescence
German adolescents are top at boozing! In the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, Martin Stolle et al. of the German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence in Hamburg report that the main change has been the increase in the number of intoxicated girls. view more (2009-05-22)
Nanoparticle synthesis allows particle size and shape to be tailored to end applications
Nanomaterials are increasingly gaining the attention of not only the scientific community, but also the public due to their unique properties which endear them to new and exciting applications. view more (2005-11-30)
Does the Internet really influence suicidal behavior?
People searching the Internet for information about suicide methods are most likely to come across sites that encourage suicide rather than sites offering help and support, finds a study in this week�s issue of the BMJ. view more (2008-04-11)
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