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Expert Witness for Canine Aggression Litigation

By: Robert Forto, PhD


Attorneys may be uncertain about the benefits of retaining an expert in animal behavior in dog bites cases, or how such an expert can help. This is understandable: In Colorado, and in many other states, the law specifies strict liability for injuries caused by a dog bite. Thus, when only damages are contested, the animal behavior expert's role may be limited. However, if liability is contested, ...

Parts of the Mind
Subconscious or Unconscious - that part of our mind which is the seat of imagination, emotion, artistic abilities (and other skills), and which takes care of bodily functions without our conscious awareness, such as automatic functions of our organs, etc. Everything is learned by association and identification. The subconscious mind stores images, thoughts, ideas, concepts, and emotions.

Conscious - generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, ...

Expert Change Management
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Is Buy-In Enough?

A Little Background:

I keep hearing that change management (often stated as communication) is all about getting “buy-in.” While getting people to buy in to a particular change is certainly a critical success factor, it is not sufficient. Let’s consider this concern from the perspectives of both the person who must make a change and the people leading or sponsoring the change. ...

Expert Change Management
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Change Management Can't be Done from the Back Seat!

Can you recall a vacation that you took in a car? Do you know that there were two skills used to make that trip; planning and driving? They might have been performed by the same person, but they are different much like Project and Change Management. There is a different pulse, or heart-beat to the two functions. I know that from nearly 20 years ...

Pets as Therapists

By Robert Forto, PhD

This is the first entry in a series of posts about dog law. The subject of dog law is often misunderstood and I hope by providing education to dog owners that it is not just he said, she said , in regards to the rights of our canine companions. The topic today is about canines assisting in therapy for a variety of individuals.

Four out of five people who responded to a recent Psychology Today survey said that when ...