Aug. 23, 2013<\/p>\n
\u201cDeveloping a mental tuning fork for the credibility of a claim, gaining an instinct for when to trust and when to doubt a source \u2013 these are two critical components of becoming a confident and effective researcher.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0From \u201c<\/em>The Devil in the Details<\/em><\/a>: Media Representation of \u2018Ritual Abuse\u2019 and Evaluation of Sources\u201d by Barbara Fister in Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education (May 2003<\/em><\/p>\n Although Fister\u2019s observation addresses the challenge of fact-finding on the Internet, it applies just as well to the interviewing of child witnesses. The poorly prepared Little Rascals prosecution therapists \u2013 and\u00a0social services investigators<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 surely had an overabundance of confidence in their \u201cmental tuning forks\u201d and their \u201cinstinct for when to trust and when to doubt.\u201d By contrast, social scientists such as Ceci and Bruck\u00a0proceed with caution<\/a>, not credulity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aug. 23, 2013 \u201cDeveloping a mental tuning fork for the credibility of a claim, gaining an instinct for when to trust and when to doubt a source \u2013 these are two critical components of becoming a confident and effective researcher.\u201d \u2013\u00a0From \u201cThe Devil in the Details: Media Representation of \u2018Ritual Abuse\u2019 and Evaluation of Sources\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}