Amid widespread calls for NGOs to become more accountable and transparent, this work examines the prevalence of discrepancies between what NGOs say and what they do. It does so using a unique dataset of 300 NGOs in Uganda with corresponding beneficiary assessments. Investigating NGO dishonesty with regards to financial transparency and community participation, the study finds a high incidence o...

We evaluated the validity of the Overclaiming Questionnaire (OCQ) as a measure of job applicants’ faking of personality tests. We assessed whether the OCQ (a) converged with an established measure of applicant faking, Residualized Individual Change Scores (RICSs); (b) predicted admission of faking and faking tendencies (Faking Frequency, Minimizing Weaknesses, Exaggerating Strengths, and Comple...

Sir, In your new feature 'Medicine and the Media' (8th July, p. 121) you mention my contribution to what you considered a muddled feature on the hazards of jogging in Tonight (BBC 1, 28 June). Perhaps the inside story may be of help to some of your readers as an example of what happens to the naive clinician when faced with the media. I am tending now very strongly to the view that the producer...

Background The task of undertaking to draft jury instructions for a statutory cause of action or defense, and thus the need to articulate elements and consider their application, can highlight questions latent in the statutory text and interpretive case law. This point certainly applies to Arkansas Code Annotated Section 23-79-107, concerning misrepresentations, omissions, concealment of facts,...

Conscious mental states are states we are in some way aware of. I compare higher-order theories of consciousness, which explain consciousness by appeal to such higher-order awareness (HOA), and first-order theories, which do not, and I argue that higher-order theories have substantial explanatory advantages. The higher-order nature of our awareness of our conscious states suggests an analogy wi...

This paper argues that olfactory experiences represent their objects as having primitive olfactory properties, which they do not in fact have. Olfactory experiences misrepresent, but since they tend to misrepresent in the same way on multiple occasions, they reliably misrepresent. The reliability of olfactory experiences helps explain how they can be useful and lead to true and justified belief...

Criticism of black film production often includes discussions of narrow typecasting and stereotypical role portrayal. Previous research shows that consumers of black films attest that such films are an accurate depiction of black culture. However, consequences of negative stereotypes presented in mainstream media are rarely discussed. The purpose of this study is to define and examine the stere...

mains a driving factor in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Although a large body of scientific evidence supports the application of prevention initiative, such as needle exchanges and methadone maintenance, these programs remain controversial and coverage of such programs remains low. A report by the Global HIV Prevention Working Group estimates that only 8% of injection drug users globally have access t...

It has been shown previously that, for two-sided discrete markets of the kind exemplified by the “marriage problem,” no strategy-proof procedure for aggregating preferences into stable outcomes exists. Here it is shown that (Nash) equilibrium misrepresentation of preferences nevertheless results in a stable outcome in terms of the true preferences when the aggregation procedure yields the optim...

This article explains and defends a novel idea about how people can be misled by discussion topic, even if the itself does not explicitly involve making of false claims. The crucial aspect this is that are liable to infer, from fact particular topic being discussed, important. As result, they may then led accept certain beliefs state world consider necessary for topic’s importance. What calls “...