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Psychological Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence

Annual Review of Psychology, 1991
INTRODUCTION 239 CORE PROPOSITIONS OF DETERRENCE THEORy 242 DETERMINANTS OF DETERRENCE SUCCESS AND FAILURE 244 Cognitive Pro cesse s.. . . ..... .. . .. ....... .. .. . . ... .. . ....... 245 Motivational Pro ce sses . 251 Small-Group Pro ce sse s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
P E Tetlock, C B McGuire, G Mitchell
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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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Juvenile Delinquency and the Psychology of General Deterrence

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1976
The study was concerned with the relevance of the judicial concept of general deterrence of juvenile delinquency. A comparison of attitudes of high-school boys, in areas of low and high delinquency, towards the likelihood of apprehension and the painfulness of punishment for criminal offences, and of the boys' factual knowledge of judicial punishment ...
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Constructing a desert labyrinth: The psychological and emotional geographies of deterrence strategy on the U.S. / Mexico border

Emotion, Space and Society, 2021
Abstract Confinement, hindrance, and time bring anxiety, fear, and stress, often accompanied by confusion and desperation. In the case of undocumented immigrants in the Sonoran Desert, such conditions are manipulated by way of surveillance and policing.
Samuel N. Chambers, Geoffrey Alan Boyce, W. Jake Jacobs   +2 more
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Integrity or Deterrence? The Psychology of the Exclusionary Rule

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Historically, the Supreme Court has offered two justifications for the Exclusionary Rule: one, it protects the integrity of the judicial system, and two, it deters illegal searches by the police. The former justification has mostly fallen out of favor; for the past four decades decisions have turned on whether or not applying the Rule in various ...
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Political Psychology: Deterrence and Conflict

2016
Ned Lebow was an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago during the most serious crises of the Cold War: Berlin (1958–59 and 1961) and the Cuban missile crisis (1962). His lifelong interest in deterrence, crisis management and the prevention of war began at that time.
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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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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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Some Cultural Facilitators and Deterrents for the Development of Psychology: The Role of Graduate Research Training

International Journal of Psychology, 1995
Traditional evaluations of the strengths and weaknesses of graduate research training conducted in developed countries normally include a series of educational and curricular criteria. In order to accommodate this analysis to developing countries and to understand the problem fully from a global perspective, it is imperative that, in addition, a socio ...
Rolando Díaz‐Loving, Isabel Reyes‐Lagunes, Rogelio Díaz‐Guerrero   +2 more
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Psychology and the Fragility of Nuclear Deterrence

Nuclear deterrence is often treated as stable. In practice, it is conditionally stable and cognitively bounded. Under acute stress, decision-making degrades: attention narrows, uncertainty intensifies, and time pressure increases reliance on heuristics.
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