Inaction as a Legal Fact in Civil Law (on the Example of the Republic of Belarus)
Unlike other legal sciences, the science of civil law did not produce any meaningful theory of inaction as a legal fact. The purpose of this article is to fill in this blank space. As a result of research, the author exposes certain features of the legal
Ana Šafalovič
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Action and valence modulate choice and choice-induced preference change. [PDF]
Choices are not only communicated via explicit actions but also passively through inaction. In this study we investigated how active or passive choice impacts upon the choice process itself as well as a preference change induced by choice.
Raphael Koster +2 more
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One of the three most important types of actions in the Czech administrative judiciary is the action for protection against the inaction of an administrative body.
Kateřina Frumarová
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Is saving lives your task or God’s? Religiosity, belief in god, and moral judgment [PDF]
Should a Catholic hospital abort a life-threatening pregnancy or let a pregnant woman die? Should a religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation?
Netta Barak-Corren, Max H. Bazerman
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Between climates of fear and blind optimism: the affective role of emotions for climate (in)action [PDF]
Emotions affect how humans relate to others and define their place in the world. They thus shape responses to socio-ecological problems like climate change.
L. M. Schlegel
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Action orientation, consistency and feelings of regret [PDF]
Previous research has demonstrated that consistency between people's behavior and their dispositions has predictive validity for judgments of regret. Research has also shown that differences in the personality variable of action orientation can influence
Todd McElroy, Keith Dowd
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WITHDRAWING TREATMENT AND KILLING: THE WAYS TO DISTINGUISH
One of the key problems facing bioethics concerns those cases where, due to the limited human and technical resources of medicine, patients are in fact doomed to die.
Kateryna S. Rassudina
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Cosmopolitan Utilitarianism and the Problem of Local Inaction in a Globalized World
This article explores the problem of the public acceptability of political inaction as an extreme consequence of cosmopolitan utilitarianism. The case of political inaction as the utility-maximizing public policy option emerges more clearly in the ...
Fausto Corvino
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LES GUERRES DE L’EST DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO DE LA MONUC A LA MONUSCO : Incohérences et ambigüités des interventions de l’ONU [PDF]
La République Démocratique du Congo a accueilli la deuxième mission des casques bleus en 1999, il y avait lieu de deviner que sa feuille de route engagée les soldats de la paix à soutenir la République Démocratique du Congo à se débarrasser de ces armées
Jérémie ABEMBA NGONGO +2 more
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“Leaving it to chance”—Passive risk taking in everyday life
While risk research focuses on actions that put people at risk, this paper introduces the concept of “passive risk”—risk brought on or magnified by inaction.
Ruty Keinan, Yoella Bereby-Meyer
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