Confessions of a Conceptual Historian

Individual Differences and False Confessions: a Conceptual Replication of Kassin and Kiechel (1996)

In their study, Kassin and Kiechel (1996) falsely accused students of causing a computer crash and found that 69% of them were willing to sign a false confession, 28% internalized guilt, and 9% confabulated details to support their false beliefs. The authors interpreted these results to mean that false confessions can be easily elicited. However, in their study, false confessions were explicitl...

Confessions of a Formal Methodist

Confessions of a Pragmatic Statistician

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Confessions of a condom lover

www.thelancet.com Vol 368 December 2, 2006 1947 those involved in neglected tropical diseases, and the private sector. After the review, the African Ministers of Health made the Yaoundé Declaration (panel). The declaration also welcomes the longstanding commitment of donors and NGDOs to onchocerciasis control and the pledge of Merck to provide ivermectin for as long as is needed. It also urged ...

Confessions of a Live Coder

This paper describes the process involved when a live coder decides to learn a new musical programming language of another paradigm. The paper introduces the problems of running comparative experiments, or user studies, within the field of live coding. It suggests that an autoethnographic account of the process can be helpful for understanding the technological conditioning of contemporary musi...