Received the Tellers’ report and confirmed the Council composition for 2004–2005. President: Kathleen Rasmussen; Past President: Dale Bauman; President-Elect: Dennis Bier; Treasurer: Penny Kris-Etherton; Secretary: Sharon Donovan; ASCN Representative: Janet King; SINR Representative: Jean-Pierre Habicht (until September 1, 2004 to be followed by Rebecca Stoltzfus); Councilors: Joanne Lupton, Te...

We offer a four-category taxonomy of individual output distributions (i.e., distributions of cumulative results): (1) pure power law; (2) lognormal; (3) exponential tail (including exponential and power law with an exponential cutoff); and (4) symmetric or potentially symmetric (including normal, Poisson, and Weibull). The four categories are uniquely associated with mutually exclusive generati...

Deception as forgery: The role of reference information in honesty and deceit" (2015). CUNY Academic Works. Using concepts derived from cybernetics, self-presentation theory, and research on human self-regulation, I develop a cybernetic perspective of deception and self-presentation. In this perspective, human communication, both honest and deceptive, is controlled by feedback mechanisms. I rep...

This paper examines how participants in mediated political discourse use short narratives strategically to account for discursive action by contextualising and re-contextualising their selves, particular acts intended unintended perlocutionary effects. The data analysed are pre-election (2017) non-election (2018), comprising online news reports from British broadsheets, parliamentary debates, s...

“Triptych,” a reflection in poetic form, does not provide or ponder easy solutions to ethical dilemmas personal storytelling (true stories shared classrooms and/or performed public forums), but illuminates few issues tellers, teachers, and researchers may encounter as they strive nurture develop true that give voice diversity of lived experiences.

Practitioners frequently inform us that variable ‘total details’ is not suitable for lie detection purposes in real life interviews. cannot count the number of details time and threshold required to classify someone as a truth teller or unknown. The authors started address these issues by examining three new verbal veracity cues: complications, common knowledge details, self-handicapping strate...

In ‘Corroborating Testimony, Probability and Surprise’, Erik J. Olsson ascribes to L. Jonathan Cohen the claims that if two witnesses provide us with the same information, then the less probable the information is, the more confident we may be that the information is true (C), and the stronger the information is corroborated (C*). We question whether Cohen intends anything like claims (C) and (...

Interactive narratives are an important element in video games and serious games alike, however, their authoring tools have their roots in programming language and programming environments. While these end-user environments for interactive narratives provide a means for users to create custom content, they are not necessarily intuitive or easy to use for non-programmers. This paper provides the...