Punishment - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mysteries of morality.

5 Jun 2009 Evolutionary theories of morality, beginning with Darwin, have focused on explanations for altruism. More generally, these accounts have concentrated on conscience (self-regulatory mechanisms) to the neglect of condemnation (mechanisms for punishing ... Read more...

Behavioral inhibition and activation systems: differences in substance use expectancy organization and activation in memory.

30 May 2009 We used multidimensional scaling to model the semantic network of alcohol and marijuana expectancies (N=897). Preference mapping was used to estimate vectors representing patterns of activation through the network as a function of levels of ... Read more...

Decision-making patterns and sensitivity to reward and punishment in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

30 May 2009 Earlier studies have demonstrated that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with aberrant sensitivity to rewards and punishments. Although some studies have focused on real-life decision making in children with ADHD using ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Punishment - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mysteries of morality. 5 Jun 2009
• Behavioral inhibition and activation systems: differences in substance use expectancy organization and activation in memory. 30 May 2009
• Decision-making patterns and sensitivity to reward and punishment in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. 30 May 2009
• A Catholic-school veteran tells all. What kids really learn when teachers resort to violence. 2 May 2009
• Severe physical punishment: risk of mental health problems for poor urban children in Brazil. 29 Apr 2009
• Still shackled in the land of liberty: denying children the right to be safe from abusive "treatment". 30 Mar 2009
• Hellhole: the United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? 28 Mar 2009
• The functions of self-injury in young adults who cut themselves: clarifying the evidence for affect-regulation. 8 Mar 2009
• High impulsivity predicts relapse to cocaine-seeking after punishment-induced abstinence. 30 Jan 2009
• [Parent's perspective on child rearing and corporal punishment] 30 Jan 2009
• Constraining free riding in public goods games: designated solitary punishers can sustain human cooperation. 20 Jan 2009
• The contribution of callous-unemotional traits and conduct problems to bullying in early adolescence. 10 Jan 2009
• For reasons of state: political executions, republicanism, and the Medici in Florence, 1480-1560. 30 Dec 2008
• "Bright and good looking colored girl": black women's sexuality and "harmful intimacy" in early twentieth-century New York. 30 Dec 2008
• "De jure novo": dealing with adultery in the fifteenth-century Toulousain. 30 Dec 2008
• "The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain": the challenges of prosecuting witchcraft in early modern Venice. 30 Dec 2008
• Relations of parenting style to Chinese children's effortful control, ego resilience, and maladjustment. 30 Dec 2008
• Indirect reciprocity provides only a narrow margin of efficiency for costly punishment. 30 Dec 2008
• Corporal punishment: mother's disciplinary behavior and child's psychological profile in Alexandria, Egypt. 30 Dec 2008
• Gender, medicine, and consumer culture in Victorian England: creating the kleptomaniac. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Punishment'

Definition: The application of an unpleasant stimulus or penalty for the purpose of eliminating or correcting undesirable behavior.

Descriptor UI: D011678

Alternative terms: Punishment; Punishments;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; psychology;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.770.571; I01.880.630.716;

Technical Notes: human & animal