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A paradoxical association of an oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism: Early-life adversity and vulnerability to depression

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2013
Several prosocial behaviors may be influenced by the hormone oxytocin. In line with this perspective, the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs53576, has been associated with a broad range of social behaviors.
Robyn Jane McQuaid   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

General distrust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Martin Bell’s party to launch his new book The Truth That Sticks tonight was very much a gathering of the ...
Beckett, Charlie
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Perceptions of Close Relationship Through the Machiavellians´ Dark Glasses: Negativity, Distrust, Self-Protection Against Risk and Dissatisfaction

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2018
It is commonly known from the literature that Machiavellian individuals have negative attitudes towards people and in general towards the world´s affairs.
Tamás Ináncsi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Can the Police Avoid Earning Our Distrust?

open access: yesJournal of Social Equity and Public Administration
The American public’s distrust in the police is at a historic high. Distrust impairs the ability of the police to meet their objectives. It is therefore important to better understand how the police can avoid earning distrust.
Mark Benton, Michelangelo Landgrave
doaj   +1 more source

[Review of] Sipho Sepamla. A Ride on the Whirlwind: A Novel of Soweto [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
South African poet, playwright, and teacher Sipho Sepamla has in his second novel, produced a fictional but tensely revealing narrative of events surrounding the 1976 Soweto riots. Dedicated to the young heroes of the day, the novel chronicles daily life
Abbott, Linda M. C.
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The Development of Distrust [PDF]

open access: yesChild Development, 2011
Preschool‐age children’s reasoning about the reliability of deceptive sources was investigated. Ninety 3‐ to 5‐year‐olds watched several trials in which an informant gave advice about the location of a hidden sticker. Informants were either helpers who were happy to give correct advice, or
Kimberly E, Vanderbilt   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Corporate Political Spending: Why Shareholders Must Weigh In [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article focuses upon the growing problem confronting companies and their shareholders: the use of general treasury (i.e., shareholder money) to propagate political agendas which are not only contrary to companies’ policies of employment, but are ...
Goodridge, Julie N.W., Jantz, Christine
core   +1 more source

Universally-composable privacy amplification from causality constraints

open access: yes, 2009
We consider schemes for secret key distribution which use as a resource correlations that violate Bell inequalities. We provide the first security proof for such schemes, according to the strongest notion of security, the so called universally-composable
A. Shiryaev   +3 more
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Distrust, Race, and Research [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Internal Medicine, 2002
Investigators have voiced concerns that distrust of research and the medical community impedes successful recruitment of African Americans into clinical research.To examine possible differences in distrust by race and to determine to what extent other sociodemographic factors explain any racial differences in distrust.We analyzed data from 527 African ...
Corbie-Smith, G.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Shinren : Non-monotonic trust management for distributed systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The open and dynamic nature of modern distributed systems and pervasive environments presents significant challenges to security management. One solution may be trust management which utilises the notion of trust in order to specify and interpret security
Dong, Changyu, Dulay, Naranker
core   +5 more sources

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