Asking Questions Versus Verifiability

Using the verifiability of details as a test of deception: A conceptual framework for the automation of the verifiability approach

The Verifiability Approach (VA) is a promising new approach for deception detection. It extends existing verbal credibility assessment tools by asking interviewees to provide statements rich in verifiable detail. Details that i) have been experienced with an identifiable person, ii) have been witnessed by an identifiable person, or iii) have been recorded through technology, are labelled as ver...

Are We Asking All the Right Questions About Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Learning By Asking: How Children Ask Questions To Achieve Efficient Search

One way to learn about the world is by asking questions. We investigate how children (n= 287, 7to 11-year olds) and young adults (n=160 17to 18-year olds) ask questions to identify the cause of an event. We find a developmental shift in children’s reliance on hypothesis-scanning questions (which test hypotheses directly) versus constraint-seeking questions (which reduce the space of hypotheses)...

On Verifiability, and How it Could Matter for International Environmental Agreements

iii Preface Hundreds or even thousands of international legal instruments on "the environment" are in existence. What happens to international environmental agreements once they are signed, and how does the process of implementing such agreements influence their effectiveness? These are the questions that motivate the IIASA project "Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmenta...

Integration and Disintegration: The View from the URBAN REGION

This is a reflective and theoretical paper. I begin by asking a pair of very simple questions: at what scale of resolution do I even start to think about the questions posed by the conference theme of cities between integration and disintegration; and second, what exactly is meant by the phrase production (emphasis in original) of cities in the call for papers? Clear responses turn out to be no...