When children’s testimonies are used as evidence: how children’s accounts may impact child custodial decisions

Abstract

In child custody cases, children oftentimes provide allegations of experienced trauma against one of their parents. Such allegations can happen before any investigative interviews (e.g., by the police or child protective services) have taken place. A central theme here concerns how to appraise such allegations and make certain that children’s accounts are taken seriously. In the current special issue, the focus is on new work on the functioning of children’s memory and its relation to trauma or work on children’s suggestibility and memory when they are traumatized. Specifically, key experts in the field of children’s memory provided contributions on: (1) the impact of interviewer support and rapport building on children’s testimonies, (2) the role of parental alienation in children’s testimonial accuracy, and (3) different types of false memories in children’s memory reports.     

Local asymptotic normality for long-memory process with strong mixing noises

Abstract

We will establish the local asymptotic normality (LAN) for fractional autoregressive long memory model in the case of strong mixing noises. This opens the way in future work to construct an adaptive estimator and construct optimal tests for the parameters. To check the feasibility and validity of our theoretical results a simulations study is considered.     

历史文献学视野下的重大历史事件

重大历史事件的提出源于国家文艺创作政策,是重大历史题材的内核。从历史文献学的视角来看,重大历史事件的文献形态表现为本源事件、衍生事件和文本事件。重大历史事件的衍生特征主要体现为本源事件的内容选择性、视角多样性、衍生多态性和历史叙事的结构层次性。重大历史事件具有文献能产性,其根本动力来源于历史主体的社会认可需要、纪念活动的客观物证需要和文艺创作的传奇叙事需要。     

How the host nation's boundary drawing affects immigrants’ belonging

Across Western democracies, the place for newcomers in the host society is debated, involving often a questioning of immigrants’ belonging to their new nation. This article argues that immigrants’ feeling of host national belonging depends on how the host nation imagines its community and its concomitant boundaries. Utilising survey and country level data in multilevel regressions, immigrants’ belonging is found to vary significantly across the 19 countries included. A central contribution is the finding that citizenship policies do not explain this cross-national variation. Instead, what matters is the informal boundary drawing produced in the majority population's conception of what is important for being part of the national ‘us'. Thus, immigrants’ belonging is significantly greater when the majority population prioritises attainable criteria of national membership. In addition, these priorities are shown to have deep historical roots as immigrants’ belonging is greater in settler countries and in nations which democratised early. By showing that national imageries have consequences for a country's welcoming capacities, and by showing that these welcoming capacities are historically path dependent, the study contributes to the debate within nationalism studies about national identity's causal significance.     

长时工作记忆的模块优化机制——基于理想认知模型的分析

记忆术是在新异信息与固有信息间强制建立一种人为意义联系的记忆策略。记忆术之所以能够有效提升记忆品质，是因为它能帮助构建稳定的理想认知模型，而理想化认知模型可被用作完整的记忆组块被个体提取到工作记忆中。组块中处于个体意识中央的那部分信息作为提取线索，将组块内的其它信息牵引到长时工作记忆中，这一方面增强了信息的可得性，另一方面还有效克服了短时工作记忆的容量限制。总之，记忆术通过理想认知模型优化了长时工作记忆，从而改善了记忆效率，提升了记忆品质。     

唯物史观与实验主义——民国学界关于中国经济史研究方法的探索

关于中国经济史的研究方法,民国学界存在两种基本认识,一派信从唯物史观,是为"理论派";一派接近实验主义,是为"材料派"。最初理论派高调亮相并占压倒性优势,材料派也浮出水面但声势不显。后来为矫社会史论战之弊,实验主义开始抬头,至《食货》创刊而居于主导地位。经过《食货》上的辩论,两派达成基本共识,在理论与材料之间执两而用中,最终将经济史研究引入正轨。这一结局的出现得益于《食货》上已建立起一种学者间正常的对话交流机制。     

李大钊对史学价值的思考

李大钊对史学价值的思考，是他史学思想中的重要内容。他以马克思主义唯物史观为指导，从史学与人生、史学与国家、史学与治学三个维度探讨了史学的价值，从而大大地拓宽了传统史学的价值。在李大钊看来，史学不仅能提高人生修养、端正人生态度、规划人生道路、领悟人生真谛，而且它还是激发爱国情感的源泉、“感奋兴起”的“救国学术”、制定革命策略的依据。同时，李大钊认为史学能训练治学者的思维和技能，而其中最主要的是能培植“与时俱进”、不断创新的思想，培养求真务实、严谨周全的学风．培育融汇古今、贯通中外的学识。回顾和探讨李大钊的史学价值观对当代弘扬党重史、读史和鉴史的优良传统和建设马克思主义学习型政党具有重要的启示意义。     

试论侯外庐以马克思主义唯物史观为指导的中国思想史研究

侯外庐的中国思想史研究在马克思主义唯物史观的基础之上，紧扣时代脉搏，继承中国文化的优良传统，对中西文化进行深入比较，探讨其异同。他冷静地钻研、不懈地思索，遵循严格的研究规范，提出了许多深刻的问题，在学术研究的过程中创立了一个史学学派，成为中国思想史研究的典范。     

论艾伦·伍德对资本主义民主的批判

艾伦·伍德基于历史唯物主义对经济和政治的连续性的分析,以民主为切入点,借鉴古雅典经济民主和政治民主相统一的洞见,揭示了资本主义民主的虚假性。伍德的观点既有助于我们认识资本主义民主的本质,也有助于我们从经济民主和政治民主相统一的维度重新思考社会主义民主,建构社会主义民主制度。     

Establish a Glorious Century of Maintaining Life＇ s Dignity

现今的世界上,有许多人由于内战、贫困与饥饿、环境破坏等威胁,迫使他们的生命及尊严处于危险状态,也有大批人仍然饱受着人权侵害、种族歧视的痛苦。为和平、人权、人道的奋斗,绝不是低层爬到高山的顶峰就可以达到终点那样。重要的是要创建一股一代接一代、谁也阻挡不了的滔滔洪流,并日积月累地把它发展和扩大。这就是我们为了建设一个和平未来的不断挑战。