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USE OF TEST SIMS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF DISTORTING BEHAVIOR: SIMULATION. A PILOT STUDY
No full textIn Forensic field the use of tools that enable the identification of cases in which there is an accentuation or minimization of psychopathology for defensive or instrumental reasons, which could also make the assessment not valid, undoubtedly provides a significant contribution to ascertain the validity of the results and the credibility of the subjects examined. The SIMS questionnaire is one of the few tools in Italy that allows, with specific scales, detection of pipelines distorting designed to simulate or amplify these problems. The aim of this pilot study is to investigate, in medical-legal and forensic context, the ability of the SIMS, to discriminate the distorting impact that the evaluative context itself exerts on the tendency of subjects with mental psychopathology (and more specifically the diagnosis of psychosis) to amplify or not the self-reported symptoms and when the assessment results are derived from utilitarian relapses.In ambito forense usare strumenti che consentano l’individuazione di casi in cui è presente un’accentuazione o una minimizzazione della psicopatologia per motivi difensivi o strumentali, con il rischio anche di rendere non valida la valutazione può costituire indubbiamente un significativo contributo per l’accertamento della validità dei risultati e della credibilità dei soggetti esaminati. Il questionario SIMS è uno dei pochi strumenti in Italia che consente, con scale specifiche, l'individuazione di condotte distorsive finalizzate a simulare o amplificare problematiche presenti. Obiettivo della presente ricerca pilota è quello di indagare, in ambito medico-legale e forense, la capacità del SIMS, di discriminare l’impatto distorsivo che il contesto valutativo stesso esercita sulla tendenza dei soggetti portatori di psicopatologia mentale (e più nello specifico di diagnosi di psicosi) ad amplificare o meno la sintomatologia autoriferita e quando dagli esiti dell’accertamento derivano ricadute utilitaristiche
Interviewers’ Use of Coercive Questioning during a Midterm Period Favorable to the Opposition Party
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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