This dissertation, which is both exploratory and descriptive in nature, initially describes the development of the polygraph against a background of understanding society's rejection of the lying phenomenon. The theoretical foundations of polygraph thinking are then presented as forerunner to practical illustration of polygraph use in the private sector. The criminal justice system represents the sphere of polygraph ulitization central to the research. With strong American accent, polygraph use in all four components of the system is described in such a manner so as to provoke thought on the part of criminal justice functionaries as to polygraph possibilities in the execution of their functions. Research findings and recommendations aimed at stimulating thought and improvement in the field of polygraphy conclude the dissertation. / Criminology and Security Science / M.A (Penology)

Le présent travail de recherche a pour objectif de focaliser l’attention sur le concept de « mensonge de légitimation » afin de briser les tabous l’entourant et apporter un éclairage théorique sur un phénomène organisationnel prégnant. Il vise, particulièrement, à fournir des éléments de compréhension sur la façon dont certains entrepreneurs agissent afin d’acquérir, moyennant le mensonge, une légitimité initiale à leurs petites et nouvelles entreprises. Cette légitimité leur permet de remporter le soutien des parties prenantes et d’accéder aux ressources requises pour le développement de leurs activités. L’étude de l’association antinomique du mensonge et de la légitimité nous a amené à nous pencher sur deux questions : la première question est liée aux considérations éthiques du mensonge et la deuxième question concerne son processus de réalisation.Sur le plan théorique, notre étude a procédé à une réévaluation des approches morales classiques et a proposé une nouvelle alternative dépassant les anomalies opérationnelles dépistées. Par ailleurs, la multi-dimensionnalité du processus du mensonge a été démontrée par le croisement de plusieurs champs disciplinaires examinant, à la fois, la cognition, les échanges sociaux et les émotions.Sur le plan méthodologique, notre étude s’est basée sur une approche qualitative explorant en profondeur les perceptions, les caractéristiques ainsi que le processus du mensonge de légitimation auprès d’une vingtaine d’entrepreneurs tunisiens. L’examen des données collectées s’est appuyé sur des analyses de contenu complétées par des démarches assignées aux cartes visuelles.Les résultats ont suggéré un processus du mensonge de légitimation composé de cinq phases : (1) une phase d’identification de problèmes, en lien avec la légitimité organisationnelle, dont les solutions reconnues sont inaccessibles. (2) Une phase de construction de la manœuvre mensongère permettant à l’entrepreneur d’identifier ses complices, les parties prenantes victimes et de déterminer la forme et le contenu du mensonge. Durant cette phase, des émotions morales négatives, telles que l’anxiété et la culpabilité, sont susceptibles d’émerger chez l’entrepreneur. Elles reflètent, par leur nature, la valeur éthique associée au mensonge. (3) Une phase de prise de décision, lors de laquelle l’entrepreneur, poussé par ses ambitions et par d’autres facteurs environnementaux, procède à la rationalisation de son comportement et à la neutralisation des émotions négatives qui en découlent. (4) Une phase de réalisation de la manœuvre mensongère et (5) une phase de contrôle.L’examen des considérations éthiques du mensonge a laissé apercevoir un « espace moral individuel libre », représentant une marge entre les valeurs éthiques individuelles de l’entrepreneur, les normes éthiques et morales de la société et de la profession ainsi que les circonstances, permettant l’émission de certains mensonges sans qu’ils ne soient perçus comme un dépassement des limites éthiques. / This research aims to focus the attention on the concept of "legitimation lie" in order to break the silence surrounding it and to shed light on an organizational phenomenon that is not as rare as what we could believe. Specifically, it provides an explanation of how some entrepreneurs succeed in acquiring initial legitimacy for their small and new businesses through lies. The study of the antithetical association of legitimacy and lies led us to focus on two research axes: on the one hand, the ethical considerations attributed to legitimacy lies and on the other hand, the process of their realization.On the theoretical level, our study required a reassessment of classical moral approaches, with the aim to offer a new alternative that goes beyond the operational limits encountered. In addition, the multi-dimensionality of lying process has been illustrated by the intersection of several disciplinary fields examining cognition, social exchanges and emotions.On the methodological level, this work was based on in-depth interviews conducted with 20 entrepreneurs of newly founded small businesses. The examination of the collected data was mainly based on thematic content analyzes preceded or completed, when necessary, by content analyzes or by practices appropriate to visual maps.The results suggest a process of legitimation through lies made of five phases: (1) a phase of identification of problems related to the organizational legitimacy in which the solutions usually practiced used are inaccessible. (2) A phase of construction of the lying’s tactic in which the entrepreneur identifies his / her collaborates, the victims and determines the form and content of the lie. During this phase, negative moral emotions, such as anxiety and guilt, are likely to emerge. These emotions reflect by their natures the ethical value associated to the lie. (3) A decision-making phase in which the entrepreneur, pushed by his ambitions and other environmental factors, rationalizes his behavior and neutralizes the negative emotions felt. (4) A phase of realization of the lying’s tactic and (5) a phase of control.The examination of the ethical considerations of lies revealed a "free individual moral space" - representing a margin between social and professional ethical standards, individual ethical norms and the circumstances surrounding the lies, where entrepreneurs allow themselves the right to use some forms of lie, according to their own rationality operating in that margin, without perceiving themselves as overstepping ethical limits.

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Durch die vorliegende Studie wurde der Einfluss von Strukturelementen auf das Liege- und Aggressionsverhalten von Pferden in Gruppenhaltung untersucht. Die Strukturelemente sollten Rückzugsmöglichkeiten bieten, sowie in ihrem Bereich zur Aufhebung der Individualdistanz führen und dadurch die Fläche relativ vergrößern. Für die Versuche stellte das Haupt- und Landesgestüt Marbach drei unabhängige Pferdegruppen mit verschiedener Herdengröße zur Verfügung, die jeweils in Einraum- Innenlaufställen gehalten wurden. Die Datenerfassung fand zwischen 23 und sieben Uhr statt. Insgesamt wurden 336 Stunden Videomaterial ausgewertet. Beim Ruheverhalten wurden mit Hilfe des event-sampling-Verfahrens die Parameter Gesamtliegedauer, Dauer in Seitenlage, Dauer der Einzelphasen in Seitenlage und Abliegehäufigkeit pro Nacht erfasst. Es wurden Versuchsphasen ohne Strukturelemente und mit hängenden Planen als Strukturierung durchgeführt. Im ersten Stall kamen außerdem über einander gestapelte Strohballen zum Einsatz. Diese Art der Strukturierung stellte sich jedoch als nicht praktikabel heraus und führte im Vergleich zu den Planen zu einer signifikanten Verschlechterung der Gesamtliegedauer. In Stall 1 konnte man eine tendenzielle Verbesserung der Parameter Gesamtliegedauer und Gesamtdauer in Seitenlage durch das Anbringen von Planen sehen. In Stall 3 dagegen verschlechterte sich das Ruheverhalten in den Versuchsphasen mit Planen gegenüber den Versuchsphasen ohne Struktur. Die Werte der Gesamtdauer in Seitenlage nahmen signifikant ab. In Stall 2 zeigten sich keine Unterschiede in den verschiedenen Versuchsphasen. Möglicherweise ist die Wirkung der Strukturelemente auf das Liegeverhalten abhängig von der Flächengröße. Stall 1 hatte bezogen auf die Leitlinien des BMELV die größte und Stall 3 die kleinste Fläche. Bei den anderen Parametern des Liegeverhaltens gab es keine signifikanten Unterschiede in den verschiedenen Versuchsphasen. Mit Hilfe des time-sampling-Verfahrens wurde die Anzahl gleichzeitig liegender Pferde und gleichzeitig liegender Pferde in Seitenlage bestimmt. Auch hier zeigten sich keine Unterschiede in den verschiedenen Versuchsphasen. Bei der Gegenüberstellung der Werte der Gesamtliegedauer und der Gesamtdauer in Seitenlage mit dem Alter der Pferde (Stall 1 und Stall 3) und mit dem Integrationszeitpunkt (Stall 1) konnte kein Zusammenhang festgestellt werden. Beim Aggressionsverhalten wurden mit Hilfe des event-sampling-Verfahrens in den Ställen 2 und 3 verschiedene Arten von Aggressionen erfasst, die dann in die drei Intensitätsgrade Low-Level-, Mid-Level- und High-Level-Aggressionen unterteilt wurden. Neben der Anzahl wurde die Dauer der verschiedenen Aggressionen bewertet. Insgesamt konnte eine positive Wirkung der Planen auf das Aggressionsverhalten beobachtet werden. Die Gesamtanzahl an Aggressionen nahm in beiden Ställen tendenziell in den Versuchsphasen mit Planen ab. In Stall 3 konnte, wenn man die Aggressionen stundenweise betrachtet, ein signifikanter Unterschied festgestellt werden. Auch der Hinterhandschlag und die Aggressionen, welche das Ruheverhalten stören, verringerten sich tendenziell nach dem Anbringen von Strukturelementen. In beiden Ställen nahm die relative Häufigkeit von Mid-Level-Aggressionen nach dem Anbringen von Planen zu. Dagegen konnte bei den High-Level-Aggressionen und in Stall 3 bei den Low-Level-Aggressionen eine relative Abnahme beobachtet werden. Sowohl die Anzahl als auch die Dauer der Mid-Level-Aggressionen verringerten sich in Stall 3 stundenweise betrachtet signifikant in den Versuchsphasen mit Planen. In Stall 2 war bei den High-Level-Aggressionen sowohl bei der Dauer als auch bei der Anzahl eine signifikante Abnahme zu sehen. Wenn man das Aggressionsverhalten in Bezug zu der Fläche in den zwei Ställen betrachtet, schien diese vor allem einen Einfluss auf die High-Level-Aggressionen zu nehmen. Mit Hilfe des Rangindex der Pferde im Stall 3 wurde eine Rangordnung aufgestellt. Zwischen dem Platz der Pferde in der Rangordnung und den Parametern des Ruheverhaltens (Gesamtliegedauer, Gesamtdauer in Seitenlage) sowie dem Alter der Pferde konnte kein Zusammenhang festgestellt werden. Zwischen dem Rangindex und der Gesamtanzahl an Aggressionen bestand dagegen ein hoch signifikanter Zusammenhang. Im Rahmen dieser Studie ist das Anbringen von Strukturelementen in Bezug auf das Aggressionsverhalten in Einraum-Innenlaufställen von Pferden zu empfehlen. Die Wirkung auf das Liegeverhalten der Pferde sollte in weiteren Studien untersucht werden.

This research focuses on clarifying the local and scientific knowledge about flooding adaptations, the interaction between local knowledge and scientific information in the low-lying area of Central Vietnam is analyzed. Data was obtained using three techniques including: semi-structured interviews, direct observation and household surveys. Responses indicate that the villagers have accumulated and inherited this type of knowledge in their society for a long time. The level of local knowledge is affected by gender, occupation and house location. This implies that the villagers’ social roles and their everyday interactions with the natural environment have nurtured an accumulated local knowledge. Scientific information is provided by the National Committee for Flood and Storm Control and National Center for Hydrometeorology Prediction. It contains information regarding disaster type, intensity, risk level and directions. The information is transferred to local people through mass media, social networks and official documents. However, local people are credulous toward scientific information given by the state. It was found that many villagers are not likely to follow the official guideline, especially the villagers with a high level of local knowledge. / Nghiên cứu tập trung làm rõ kiến thức bản địa và khoa học về thích ứng lũ lụt cũng như mối tương tác của chúng ở vùng trũng thấp miền Trung Việt Nam. Dữ liệu được thu thập bằng cách sử dụng kết hợp ba phương pháp bao gồm phỏng vấn bán cấu trúc, quan sát trực tiếp và khảo sát hộ gia đình. Các kết quả nghiên cứu chỉ ra rằng người dân đã tích lũy và kế thừa kiến thức bản địa từ xã hội của họ trong một thời gian dài. Mức độ kiến thức bản địa bị ảnh hưởng bởi giới tính, nghề nghiệp và vị trí nhà ở. Vai trò xã hội và những tương tác hàng ngày của người dân với môi trường tự nhiên đã nuôi dưỡng và tích lũy kiến thức bản địa. Thông tin khoa học được cung cấp bởi Ủy ban Phòng chống lụt bão Quốc gia và Trung tâm Dự báo Khí tượng Thủy văn Quốc gia. Các thông tin về loại thiên tai, cường độ, mức độ rủi ro và hướng chỉ dẫn được thông báo. Thông tin này được chuyển đến người dân thông qua các phương tiện thông tin đại chúng, mạng xã hội và các văn bản chính thức. Tuy nhiên, người dân địa phương chủ quan trước những thông tin khoa học do cơ quan nhà nước đưa ra. Nhiều người dân không tuân theo các hướng dẫn chính thức của chính quyền địa phương, đặc biệt là những người có mức độ kiến thức bản địa được đánh giá cao.

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Erwartungen sind entscheidend für das Verständnis wirtschaftlichen Verhaltens. Sie leiten unsere Entscheidungen angesichts von Ungewissheit und wirken sich auf unser Verhalten in Interaktionen mit anderen aus, bei denen wir Erwartungen über Aktionen und Reaktionen bilden. Diese Dissertation umfasst drei unabhängige Forschungsarbeiten, die Erwartungen über unsichere zukünftige Ergebnisse (Kapitel 1) und soziale Interaktionen (Kapitel 2-3) untersuchen. Kapitel 1 analysiert Umfragedaten zu langfristigen Erwartungen von Personen auf drei Märkten. Wir betrachten die Zusammenhänge zwischen langfristigen und kurzfristigen Erwartungen sowie der historischen Preisentwicklung. Außerdem analysieren wir die Heterogenität der langfristigen Erwartungen nach sozioökonomischen und persönlichen Merkmalen. Unsere Studie trägt zum Verständnis der langfristigen Erwartungen bei und bietet einen methodischen Beitrag, der zeigt, wie maschinelle Lernmethoden wie Lasso in der Heterogenitätsanalyse eingesetzt werden können. Kapitel 2 untersucht die Konsistenz von Aktionen und Erwartungen in sozialen Interaktionen. In einem kontrollierten Laborexperiment erheben wir Aktionen und Erwartungen von Sprechern und Zuhörern bis zur zweiten Ordnung, um zu prüfen, ob Individuen die Erwartungen anderer über ihre möglichen Aktionen berücksichtigen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen ein neues Muster der Inkonsistenz zwischen Aktionen und Erwartungen zweiter Ordnung von Zuhörern. Kapitel 3 analysiert, wie Individuen koordinieren, wer reden soll. In einem Laborexperiment untersuche ich die Rolle von Erwartungen über die eigenen relativen Fähigkeiten bei der Entscheidung, Informationen zu teilen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Selbstvertrauen das Reden beeinflusst. Die Steigerung des Vertrauensniveaus und die Rückmeldung über die eigenen relativen Fähigkeiten verbessern die Koordination zwischen den Sprechern, während der Wettbewerb um die Weitergabe von Informationen zu einer weniger effizienten Koordination führt. / Beliefs are crucial for understanding economic behavior. They guide our choices in the face of uncertainty and impact our behavior in interactions with others, where we form beliefs about actions and reactions. This thesis comprises three independent research papers that examine beliefs about uncertain future outcomes (Chapter 1) and social interactions (Chapters 2-3). Chapter 1 analyzes survey data on long-run expectations of individuals in three welfare-relevant markets: the stock market, the labor market, and the housing market. We study how the long-run expectations are associated with short-run expectations and historical developments of prices. Moreover, we examine heterogeneity of long-run expectations by socio-economic and personal characteristics. Our research adds to understanding the long-run expectations and provides a methodological contribution, demonstrating how machine learning methods such as lasso can be used in heterogeneity analysis. Chapter 2 studies consistency of actions and beliefs of individuals in social interactions. In a controlled laboratory experiment, we elicit actions and beliefs of talkers and listeners up to the second order to investigate whether individuals consider the beliefs of others about their potential actions. Our findings reveal a new pattern of inconsistency between actions and second-order beliefs of listeners. Chapter 3 continues the topic of social interactions and provides evidence on how individuals coordinate on who should talk. In a laboratory experiment, I investigate the role of beliefs about one’s own relative skill on the decision to share information with others. The results indicate that confidence drives talking. Boosting confidence levels and providing feedback about one’s own relative skill enhances coordination between talkers, whereas competition for sharing information leads to less efficient coordination.

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The role of midwife has been an integral part of the culture of childbirth in Queensland throughout its history, but it is a role that has been modified and reshaped over time. This thesis explores the factors that underpinned a crucial aspect of that modification and reshaping. Specifically, the thesis examines the factors that contributed to the statutory regulation of midwives that began in 1912 and argues that it was that event that etched the development of midwifery practice for the remainder of the twentieth century. In 1859, when Queensland seceded from New South Wales, childbirth was very much a private event that took place predominantly in the home attended by a woman who acted as midwife. In the fifty-threeyears that followed, childbirth became a medical event that was the subject of scrutiny by the medical profession and the state. The thesis argues that, the year 1912 marks the point at which the practice of midwifery by midwives in Queensland began a transition from lay practice in the home to qualified status in the hospital. In 1912, through the combined efforts of the medical profession, senior nurses and the state, midwives in Queensland were brought under the jurisdiction of the Nurses' Registration Board as "midwifery nurses". The Nurses' Registration Board was established as part of the Health Act Amendment Act of 1911. The inclusion of midwives within a regulatory authority for nurses represented the beginning of the end of midwifery practice as a discrete occupational role and marked its redefinition as a nursing specialty. It was a redefinition that suited the three major stakeholders. The medical profession perceived lay midwives to be a disjointed and uncoordinated body of women whose practice contributed to needless loss of life in childbirth. Further, lay midwives inhibited the generalist medical practitioners' access to family practice. Trained nurses looked upon midwifery as an extension of nursing and one which offered them an area in which they might specialise in order to enhance their occupational status and career prospects. The state was keen to improve birth rates and to reduce infant mortality. It was prepared to accept that the regulation of midwives under the auspices of nursing was a reasonable and proper strategy and one that might assist it to meet its objectives. It was these separate, but complementary, agendas that prompted the medical profession and the state to debate the culture of childbirth, to examine the role of midwives within it, and to support the amalgamation of nursing and midwifery practice. This thesis argues that the medical profession was the most active and persistent protagonist in the moves to limit the scope of midwives and to claim midwifery practice as a medical specialty. Through a campaign to defame midwives and to reduce their credibility as birth attendants, the medical profession enlisted the help of senior nurses and the state in order to redefine midwifery practice as a nursing role and to cultivate the notion of the midwife as a subordinate to the medical practitioner. While this thesis contests the intervention of the medical profession in the reproductive lives of women and the occupational territory of midwives, it concedes that there was a need to initiate change. Drawing on evidence submitted at Inquests into deaths associated with childbirth, the thesis illuminates a childbirth culture that was characterised by anguish and suffering and it depicts the lay midwife as a further peril to an already hazardous event that helps to explain medical intervention in childbirth and, in part, to excuse it. The strategies developed by the medical profession and the state to bring about the occupational transition of midwives from lay to qualified were based upon a conceptual unity between the work of midwives and nurses. That conceptualisation was reinforced by a practical training schedule that deployed midwives within the institution of the lying-in hospital in order to receive the formal instruction that underpinned their entitlement to inclusion on the Register of Midwifery Nurses held by the Nurses' Registration Board. The structure that was put in place in Queensland in 1912 to control and monitor the practice of midwives was consistent with the policies of other Australian states at that time. It was an arrangement that gained acceptance and strength over time so that by the end of the twentieth century, throughout Australia, the practice of midwifery by midwives was, generally, consequent upon prior qualification as a Registered Nurse. In Queensland, in the opening years of the twenty-first century, the role of midwife remains tied to that of the nurse but the balance of power has shifted from the medical profession to the nursing profession. At this time, with the exception of a small number of midwives who have acquired their qualification in midwifery from an overseas country that recognises midwifery practice as a discipline independent of nursing, the vast majority of midwives practising in Queensland do so on the basis of their registration as a nurse. Methodology This thesis explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. The historical approach underpins this research. The historical approach is an inductive process that is an appropriate method to employ for several reasons. First, it assists in identifying the origins of midwifery as a social role performed by women. Second, it presents a systematic way of analysing the evidence concerning the development of the midwifery role and the status of the midwife in society. Third, it highlights the political, social and economic influences which have impacted on midwifery in the past and which have had a bearing on subsequent midwifery practice in Queensland. Fourth, the historical approach exposes important chronological elements pertaining to the research question. Finally, it assists the exposure of themes in the sources that demonstrate the behaviour of key individuals and governing authorities and their connection to the transition of midwifery from lay to qualified. Consequently, through analysing the sources and collating the emerging evidence, a cogent account of interpretations of midwifery history in Queensland may be constructed. Data collection and analysis The data collection began with secondary source material in the formative stages of the research and this provided direction for the primary sources that were later accessed. The primary source material that is employed includes testimonies submitted at Inquests into maternal and neonatal deaths; parliamentary records; legislation, government gazettes, and medical journals. The data has been analysed through an inductive process and its presentation has combined exploration and narration to produce an accurate and plausible account. The story that unfolds is complex and confusing. Its primary focus lies in ascertaining why and how midwifery practice was regulated in Queensland. The thesis therefore explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. Limitations of the study The limitations of the study relate to the documentary evidence and to the cultural group that form the basis of the study. It is acknowledged that historical accounts rely upon the integrity of the historian to select and interpret the data in a fair and plausible manner. In the case of this thesis, one of its limitations is that midwives did not speak for themselves but were, instead, spoken for by medical practitioners and parliamentarians. As a consequence, the coronial and magisterial testimonies that are employed constitute a limitation in that while they reveal the ways in which lay midwifery occurred, they relate only to those childbirth events that resulted in death. Thus, they may be said to represent the minority of cases involving the lay midwife rather than to offer a broader and perhaps more balanced picture. A second limitation is that the accounts are recorded by an official such as a member of the police or of the Coroner's Office and are sanctioned by the witness with a signature or, more often, a cross. It is therefore possible that the recorder has guided these accounts and that they are not the spontaneous evidence of the witness. Those witnesses and the culture they represent are drawn predominantly from non- Indigenous working class. Thus, a third limitation is that the principal ethnic group featured in this thesis has been women of European descent who were born in Queensland or other parts of Australia. This focus has originated from the data itself and has not been contrived. However, it does impose a restriction to the scope of the study.