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PROFESSIONALISM TRUMPS PARTISANSHIP: LESSONS LEARNED ON HOW WE CONTINUALLY UPDATE OUR PRACTICE OF OBJECTIVITY AS ANALYSTS
Get PDFOn November 15, 2023, Dr. Barry Zulauf presented Professionalism Trumps Partisanship: Lessons Learned on How We Continually Update Our Practice of Objectivity as Analysts for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The key points discussed were how legal standards for intelligence tradecraft were instituted in the following the 9/11 attacks and flawed WMD intelligence in Iraq; the enactment of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) to establish clear, unbiased standards and aid in objectivity; and recent attempts to politicize intelligence, particularly regarding foreign election interference.
Received: 01-07-2024
Revised: 01-26-202
MARITIME SECURITY LESSONS LEARNED FROM INTERNATIONAL SECURITY INITIATIVES IN THE CARIBBEAN
Get PDFOn November 15th, 2023, Jason Kelshall, Regional Coordinator, SEACOP EU, presented Maritime Security Lessons Learned from International Security Initiatives in the Caribbean for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The key points discussed were increasing illicit trade and its effects, rising crime and drug availability, and challenges in maritime and energy resource security.
Received: 01-15-2024
Revised: 01-26-202
BLURRING BOUNDARIES: WAR AND VIOLENCE IN A NEW ERA
Get PDFOn November 13, 2023, Professor Candyce Kelshall presented Blurring Boundaries: War and Violence in a New Era for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were the drift into the realm of focusing on noncombatants as human infrastructure targets outside of liberal norms.
Received: 01-28-2024
Revised: 01-31-202
Spectacle Violence Actors
Get PDFThis panel argued that spectacle violence actors are often conflated under the typology of terrorist and that evidence suggests this creates blind spots in the identification of actors as well as difficulties in interruption or interdiction for law enforcement. Using an assessment of 44 case studies ranging from 1985 to the present day, they concluded that there are four distinct typologies of spectacle violence actors. A new assessment model was used to better define the motivations of violent actors. This case study and new model were used to address existing justifications for these acts and offer avenues for mitigation, rather than labelling all spectacle violence acts under the universal umbrella of “terrorism".
Received: 10-03-2024
Revised: 10-30-202
Empathy Deficits in Autistic Children and Children with Callous-unemotional Traits: Recommendations for Clinicians and Research
Get PDFEmpathy deficits are common among individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and individuals with callous-unemotional (CU) traits. These deficits can have serious social consequences for affected individuals. The similarities related to these deficits have led researchers to question the co-morbidity of CU traits in autistic individuals; however, evidence suggests that the underlying etiological origins of the empathy deficits in ASD and CU traits are not one in the same. Empathy imbalance theory can be used to explain these differing etiological origins. Empathy imbalance theory posits that there is a distinction between cognitive empathy, or the ability to perspective-take and recognize the emotions of others, and affective empathy, or the ability to empathize with and understand others. Autistic individuals do not seem to be impaired in their ability to demonstrate affective empathy but tend to struggle with cognitive empathy. On the other hand, cognitive empathy appears intact in individuals with CU traits, yet these individuals’ affective empathy levels appear impaired. This paper provides a brief overview of the literature on the distinct etiological origins of the empathy deficits in ASD and CU traits, considers the negative repercussions of misidentifying CU traits in autistic children including clinical implications, and concludes with recommendations for clinicians and directions for future research
Interview with Jin-me Yoon: Canadian Contemporary Artist
Get PDFThe Lyre 15 interview with Canadian contemporary artist Jin-me Yoon
Like, Whatever: The Syntactic Evolution of a Morpheme
Get PDFThis paper was originally written for Dr. Heather Bliss’s LING 282W course, Writing for Linguistics. The assignment asked students to expand, elaborate, or adapt one of their earlier Linguistics writing exercises or assignments into a short experimental or argument paper. This required that students identify a research question for which a methodology could be designed and implemented to elicit results that confirm (or disconfirm) a hypothesis. The paper uses APA citation style.
This paper seeks to illuminate the syntactic contribution of the morpheme, like. Although like has been validated as constituents of several syntactic categories, such as verb, noun, adverb, and preposition (Montell, 2019; McWhorter, 2016), it has been defined as a meaningless filler word when it appears as casual interjections in speech. In this study, we posit that like is not a meaningless filler word, but a flexible constituent that can move within and across phrases. We analyze like through the lens of the pop culture canon, drawing examples from modern English (American, British, Irish) and extracting six sound bites from movies, television, and music from the past twenty years to represent current patterns of speech from speakers of all ages and genders. Using various syntactic constituency tests, including movement and omission, we uncover the syntactic contribution of like, revealing that while it is omnipresent in speech, like performs a very important communicative function: as an emphatic discourse marker at the beginning, middle or end of a syntactic phrase. By parsing like and identifying its purpose in dialogue and the ways in which it is very much hedged by syntax, we can deduce its universality in speech across languages and discover how these similarities can influence and shape cultural identity and cross-linguistic landscapes
Mind the gap: Advice givers underestimate how much their advice is appreciated by recipients.
Get PDFPeople often give advice to others, but are they able to predict how much the recipient appreciates the advice? To explore this question, we conducted a pre-registered study in a common and meaningful context: starting university. In the Summer of 2022 and 2023, Canadian university students on the cusp of graduation were asked to give advice to an incoming university student, and then estimate how much this advice would be appreciated (1 – not at all to 10 – very much). Then, several months later, we gave each piece of advice to up to three new university students. Each advice recipient rated their appreciation on the same scale (1 – not at all to 10 – very much). To understand the appreciation gap, we compared the givers predicted and recipients’ actual appreciation scores. However, findings provided tentative support for the pre-registered hypothesis that givers underestimate how much advice is appreciated by recipients, though this trend was not statistically significant. Therefore, we incorporated a manipulation check at the end of the survey, asking givers to specify who their advice was intended for. By focusing our analysis on participants who accurately recalled that their advice will be given to a new student, the findings were statistically significant. Given past research demonstrating that peoples’ expectations about how their behaviour will be received influences the likelihood of them engaging in a prosocial act. These findings suggest that people may not offer advice as frequently as they could due to the misestimation of recipient appreciation.
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Laura Aknin, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser Universit