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PubMed1998

The power of confession: the role of the criminal law and courtpractices in the production of knowledge concerning sexuality between women: Finland, in the 1950s.

The article discusses a number of court cases on women's same-sex fornication in the Finnish countryside in the 1950s. Based on a close reading of the minutes of the police investigations and the court records, the article shows how the notion of sexual acts between women, and the notion of certain modes of conduct as "sexual," were constructed in these proceedings. The authorities could conceive sexual relations only in terms of the "heterosexual matrix" (cf. Judith Butler); hence they assumed that the alleged sexual encounters between the women were a copy of a heterosexual sexual intercourse. As for the accused women, many of whom were connected with a Christian sect, they often insisted that the physical expressions of their mutual affection were not sexual, and they opposed the interpretation that their conduct might have anything to do with homosexuality, which they considered a pathology. As the women nevertheless often ended up repenting their conduct, they reproduced the conventional image of sexually passive "soft" woman, though perhaps partly because of strategic reasons.

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PubMed1999

Competence to confess: measuring understanding and suggestibility of defendants with mental retardation.

Groups of individuals with or without mental retardation, all of whom were currently on probation, were tested with measures of comprehension of Miranda rights and of suggestibility. As in previous work, participants with mental retardation were found to be less able to comprehend their Miranda rights. In addition, they were significantly more likely to respond to suggestive questioning and to change their answers. Significant correlations were found between measures of comprehension of Miranda rights and measures of suggestibility. Implications of these results were discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed2006

Confessions of a serial entrepreneur: a conversation with Alfred E. Mann. Interview by Molly Joel Coye.

In this wide-ranging interview, Alfred Mann describes the activities of several medical technology enterprises with which he is engaged. Several of them are companies that he formed; one is a nonprofit foundation, the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering, founded to establish research-oriented institutes on a dozen university campuses and support their work in developing marketable innovations. Mann discusses the need to consider the cost implications of technology, in the context of U.S. health system reform, and describes several important innovations that have emerged from his companies over the years.

Biomedical Engineering↗
PubMed1993

Academic confessions of high school students: an analysis of adolescents' developmental concerns.

30 normally achieving and 24 high school students with learning disabilities from one public high school were enrolled in an exploratory study of adolescents' perceptions of their learning difficulties. Adolescents completed a structured interview based on metacognitive and information-processing theories. Items on which subjects reported the most substantial problems related mainly to attention and organization. Comparison of the frequencies of endorsement of items for each group showed adolescents with learning disabilities most commonly reported problems with use of strategies, retrieval memory, and rapid processing. Current assessment methods and instructional approaches often ignore these crucial aspects of learning and productivity by high school students.

Adaptation, Psychological↗