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Local norms of cheating and the cultural evolution of crime and punishment: a study of two urban neighborhoods [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2014
The prevalence of antisocial behavior varies across time and place. The likelihood of committing such behavior is affected by, and also affects, the local social environment.
Kari Britt Schroeder   +2 more
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Psychology of killer in Mark Ałdanov’s novel The Beginning of the End – intertextual games with Fiodor Dostoyevsky

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2015
Psychology of killer in Mark Ałdanov’s novel The Beginning of the End – intertextual games with Fiodor Dostoyevsky In this article, the author analyzes the motif of killer in Mark Ałdanov’s novel The Beginning of the End.
Patryk Witczak
doaj   +1 more source

The psychology of state punishment [PDF]

open access: yes
A significant amount of punishment that happens in society is state punishment–that is, third- party punishment carried out by an organized political community in response to a rule violation.
Wil Cunningham   +4 more
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Incarcerated Activity: The Work of Psychologists in Prisons

open access: yesPsicologia, 2022
In Brazil, the presence of psychology in prisons was established by the Criminal Sentence Execution Act, in 1984, and it was intensified in the past three decades.
Rodrigo Padrini Monteiro   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of Law and Justice from Ancient to Modern Times

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law, 2014
The contention traces back to the 19th century that developmental psychology be helpful or necessary to understand human´s history. Nearly every early scholar in developmental psychology and many early ethnologists, sociologists, and historians ...
Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff
doaj   +1 more source

Ordinary citizens are more severe towards verbal than nonverbal hate-motivated incidents with identical consequences

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Do we judge hate incidents similarly when they are performed using words or bodily actions? Hate speech incidents are rarely reported by bystanders, and whether or how much they should be punished remains a matter of legal, theoretical and social ...
Jimena Zapata, Ophelia Deroy
doaj   +1 more source

Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide terrorism and psychology of suicide bomber

open access: yesLibyan International Medical University Journal, 2021
This article reviews suicide terrorism and existing understandings of the psychology of suicide bomber. Suicide attacks that take place in many different parts of the world are one of the most used methods by the terrorist organizations.
Mehmet Ogun
doaj   +1 more source

Neuromorphic Near‐Sensor and In‐Sensor Computing Enabled by Next‐Generation Material‐Based Sensors

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This Review presents a structural framework that classifies neuromorphic sensing into near‐sensor and in‐sensor architectures, clarifying physical coupling between sensing and computation. The framework connects neural and synaptic device functions with recent advances in optical, mechanical, and chemical sensing, compares energy consumption and ...
Su Yeon Jung   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are humans too generous and too punitive? Using psychological principles to further debates about human social evolution

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Are humans too generous and too punitive? Many researchers have concluded that classic theories of social evolution (e.g., direct reciprocity, reputation) are not sufficient to explain human cooperation; instead, group selection theories are needed.
Max Michael Krasnow   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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