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Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role
BIbliography: pages 203-215.
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| author | Hansson, Desirée S |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17018 Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role Hansson, Desirée S Foster, Don Van Zyl Smit, Dirk Psychology BIbliography: pages 203-215. Only limited research has been undertaken regarding the effects of extralegal variables on the verdicts of lower courts. Bennett and Feldman (1981) have demonstrated that the well-formedness of the semantic structure of testimony determines its credibility. It has been shown that the comprehensibility of narrative discourse (testimony) is a reliable indicator of its well-formedness (Thorndyke, 1977). This study aims to explore the relationships between comprehensibility (well-formedness) as a dependent variable, and magistrates' credibility judgements, the ethnicity of witnesses and their court roles as independent variables. Simple three way Anovas constituted the bulk of the statistical analyses. 2016-02-15T07:12:26Z 2016-02-15T07:12:26Z 1985 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17018 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Psychology Hansson, Desirée S Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role |
| title_full | Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role |
| title_fullStr | Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role |
| title_full_unstemmed | Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role |
| title_short | Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role |
| title_sort | differences in the comprehensibility of testimony a comparative study of magistrate s credibility judgements witnesses ethnicity and court role |
| topic | Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17018 |
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