{"id":2128,"date":"2016-05-05T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2016-05-07T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T16:15:02","slug":"view-from-1908-the-lawyer-alone-is-obdurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"View from 1908: \u2018The lawyer alone is obdurate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2129\" style=\"width: 137px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160505Kix.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Kix\" width=\"137\" height=\"137\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Kix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">May 5, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsychologists have long recognized that human memory is highly fallible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muskingum.edu\/~psych\/psycweb\/history\/munsterb.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo M\u00fcnsterberg<\/a>\u00a0taught in one of the first American psychology departments, at Harvard. In a 1908 book called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/On-Witness-Stand-Psychology-Classics\/dp\/1933167904\" target=\"_blank\">On the Witness Stand<\/a>,\u2019\u00a0he argued that, because people could not know when their memories had deceived them, the legal system\u2019s safeguards against lying \u2013 oaths, penalties for perjury, and so on \u2013 were ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe expected that teachers, doctors, and politicians would all be eager to reform their fields. \u2018The lawyer alone is obdurate,\u2019 M\u00fcnsterberg wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/01\/18\/recognition-annals-of-justice-paul-kix\" target=\"_blank\">Recognition<\/a>: How a travesty led to criminal-justice innovation in Texas\u201d\u00a0by Paul Kix in the New Yorker (Jan. 18)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Munsterberg saw clearly the stubbornness of lawyers, even if he may have overestimated the open-mindedness of those other callings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5, 2016 \u201cPsychologists have long recognized that human memory is highly fallible. Hugo M\u00fcnsterberg\u00a0taught in one of the first American psychology departments, at Harvard. In a 1908 book called \u2018On the Witness Stand,\u2019\u00a0he argued that, because people could not know when their memories had deceived them, the legal system\u2019s safeguards against lying \u2013 oaths, [&hellip;]<\/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-2128","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\/2128","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=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}