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Psychology and Deterrence [PDF]

open access: yesForeign Affairs, 1986
Andrew J. Pierre   +3 more
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The construction of “official outlaws”. Social-psychological and educational implications of a deterrent asylum policy [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
With the increasing numbers of immigrants seeking to obtain political asylum, the receiving conditions and the deportability of refused asylum seekers have emerged as major issues. Concern with these questions has been addressed through renewed asylum policies involving expeditious processing of applications, tight restrictions upon the right to work ...
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Memory Manipulation, Immortality, and the Illusion of Morality: Sadism Unleashed in Science Fiction Worlds

open access: yesJournal of Science Fiction and Philosophy
This article examines how contemporary science fiction narratives explore the fragility of moral restraint in conditions of unaccountability. Through a close analysis of Westworld, Altered Carbon, Permutation City, and The Purge, I argue that these works
Tristan Guillaume
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Psychological and Communicative Aspects of Nuclear Deterrence: the Issue of Rationality and Attempts to Go Beyond the Equilibrium

open access: yesHumanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University, 2023
This article is dedicated to the study of psychological and communicative aspects of nuclear deterrence. Author emphasizes that rationality of political agents is a crucial condition, specifying that it must be realist or neorealist rationality. The article shows that deterrence results in “delicate balance of terror” — the situation when none of ...
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Nuclear terrorism Commentary: The myth of nuclear deterrence in south Asia Commentary: The psychology of terrorists [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2002
# Nuclear terrorism {#article-title-2} Three members of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility discuss the threat of nuclear terrorism and conclude that the only effective way to tackle it is to abolish nuclear weapons The attack on the World Trade Center in New York clearly showed that ...
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Psychological predictors of deterrence from travel due to terrorist action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Research has shown that terrorism is associated with a decline in tourism to targeted countries (Enders & Sandler, 1991). The existing studies are based on a retrospective analysis of tourism statistics in relation to occurrences of terrorism. The present research moves beyond these earlier studies by identifying in realtime the duration and extent
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WHISTLE-BLOWING AS A DETERRENT TO ORGANIZATIONAL WRONG-DOINGS: FROM THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW

open access: yesSOCIOTECHNICA, 2003
In order to make whistle-blowing as a deterrent to organizational wrong-doings, it is necessary to build an environment where proper whistle-blowing can be carried out easily. In this study, we investigated the influences of the individual characteristics and the organization characteristics both on the whistle-blowing action and attitudes to whistle ...
WANG, Jinmin   +3 more
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Expanding Cartel Fines Beyond Deterrence: a psychological perspective

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The primary strategy that is used to fight illegal business cartels is one of general deterrence. In practice this means that authorities investigate and sanction cartels to show other business executives that it does not pay to form a cartel. The fines are meant to confer the severity of the fines and the risk of getting caught. However, this approach
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