S.9 Wills Act 1837 sets out the current requirements for making and witnessing a will. Importantly, the act specifies that a will must be signed by the testator (male) or testatrix (female) (i.e., ...

Over the long term, being a bystander of high-school violence can be as damaging to mental health as being directly bullied, a new study finds. Students who witness violence in school at age 13 are at ...

Witnessing is an important act in and of itself. The gaze of others can be pressuring and liberating, validating and troubling; knowing others are witnessing can also be cathartic. The relationship ...

For victims of domestic violence—the physical attacks, emotional maltreatment, and other abuse endured are certain to take a toll on their well-being. However, while the horrors of abuse are apparent ...

Harassment does not have to be personally experienced in order to leave an impact. In addition to their own personal experiences, a majority of Americans have witnessed harassment directed at someone ...

Children who witness domestic violence may be more likely to have psychopathic traits in adulthood, according to a new study. In the study, the researchers looked at psychopathic traits among nearly ...

For many of us living with chronic illness, pain is an unwelcome fact of life. Perhaps it ebbs and flows; perhaps it remains constant—but the experience of pain changes people. Elaine Scarry talks ...

I am the CEO of YWCA Metropolitan St. Louis, a social services agency founded in St. Louis in 1904. One of our racial justice programs, Witnessing Whiteness, was the subject of a recent Star editorial ...

Pujya Gurudevshri explains that an absence of any reaction to whatever happens leads to witnessing. Through it, one becomes free from the mind and abides in the pure self Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji ...

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. A flashbulb emits a high-pitched hum. A photograph of the ...