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Smoking in children: Developing a social psychological strategy of deterrence

Preventive Medicine, 1976
Abstract Because smoking as an identifiable risk factor for several diseases, has not declined in adults and may be increasing in teen-agers and children, a social-psychological strategy to deter smoking in children is currently being implemented in the Houston (Texas) Independent School District.
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Deterrence: A Political and Psychological Critique

2016
Postwar American security policy was built on a foundation of deterrence. In the early Cold War period, American leaders relied on nuclear deterrence to discourage Soviet or Chinese attacks against American allies in Western Europe and the Far East. When these countries developed the means to launch intercontinental nuclear attacks of their own, the ...
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On Crisis Instability and Psychological Aspects of Nuclear Deterrence

Rossiya v globalnoi politike, 2023
A decision maker with even a modicum of sanity will prefer even a very unsatisfactory peace to war, but this choice might not be available.
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Protecting the Ego: Anticipated Image Risk as a Psychological Deterrent to Construction Workers’ Safety Citizenship Behavior

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Accidents and injuries plague the construction industry worldwide. It has been shown that frontline workers' safety citizenship behavior plays a key role in preventing accidents and improving workplace safety. In this study, we consider anticipated image risk, defined as an individual's belief that one action might harm how they are seen by others, as ...
Xin Ning, Fengyu Zhai, Nini Xia, Xiaowen Hu   +3 more
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General deterrence and behaviour change: A comment on the Australian psychological society position paper on punishment and behaviour change

Australian Psychologist, 1998
This paper is a comment on a position paper on punishment and behaviour change written for the Australian Psychological Society. The present paper suggests that insufficient attention has been given to the value of general deterrence, and that there is reason to believe that, under the right circumstances, general deterrence can be a very effective way
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Processes of Persuasion: Psychology and Deterrence . Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, and Janice Gross Stein, with Patrick M. Morgan and Jack L. Snyder. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1986. xii, 271 pp. $27.50. Perspectives on Security.

, 1986
Stephen M. Walt
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"Blunt Not the Heart, Enrage It": The Psychology of Revenge and Deterrence (November 2017)

, 2017
Rose McDermott, Anthony C. Lopez, Peter Hatemi   +2 more
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Psychological Deterrents to Incest

American Anthropologist, 1960
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A psychological approach to deterrence: The evaluation of crime opportunities.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1978
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Evolutionary Psychology and Nuclear Deterrence Theory

, 2009
Bradley A. Thayer
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