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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fearlessness"”.
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Investigating the role of fearless temperament and parenting practices in callous-unemotional traits in middle childhood
… children (N = 50, 56% female, ages 6-9) how fearlessness and particular parenting factors uniquely, and in combination, concurrently predict CU, INS, and GD traits. Given the small sample, effect sizes were considered in addition to significance tests. Fearlessness and parenting dimensions …
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Low Heart Rate and Crime: Exploring the Link From an Analytical Perspective
… and questionable assumptions. Amongst these, fearlessness and stimulation-seeking hypotheses have gained ground and become well established in the literature, despite the fact that they have been subjected to scarce empirical verifications yielding mixed results. Therefore, employing …
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An Evaluation of the Convergent Construct Validity of the Boldness Inventory of Psychopathy using a Five-Minute, 10% Carbon-Dioxide-Enriched Air Challenge
… detachment, and impulsivity (Hare, 2003). Fearlessness, immunity to stress, self-assurance, and social dominance are considered to be adaptive features of psychopathy. Patrick and colleagues (2009) sought to reconcile differences between opposing conceptualizations of psychopathy by …
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The Roles of Psychological Hardiness and Moral Injury in the Relationships Between War-zone Stressors and Internalizing Distress among Post-9/11 Military Service Members
… zone environments may lead to the development of fearlessness about death (FAD), through habituation to fear and pain. Thus, examining protective mechanisms is critical, such as resilience factors. The current study aimed to examine (a) whether MI mediates the relationships between CE on PTSD …
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Shark Heart
… is a manuscript of poems that maneuver between fearlessness and tenderness at the drop of a dime. In the same way that many sharks need to survive by constantly swimming in order to extract oxygen from the water streaming between their gills, the heart muscle needs to constantly pump blood …
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Psychometric Properties of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Non-criminal Population
… Coldheartedness, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Blame Externalization, Impulsive Nonconformity and Stress Immunity. The hypothesized relationships and factor structure of this study follow the theory of psychopathy as being a disorder rooted in antisocial behaviors (often aggressive …
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Validity Study of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Noncriminal Population
… Coldheartedness, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Blame Extemalization, Impulsive Nonconformity and Stress Immunity. In this study, the relationship between the PPI and four theoretically related concepts (psychopathy, empathy, sensation seeking and driving anger) were examined to …
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Can the Triarchic Model Differentiate between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder?
… psychopathy (Patrick et al., 2009) that captures fearlessness, dominance, and low stress reactivity, represents a distinct difference between psychopathy and APD. Utilizing a sample of 108 male prison inmates, the current study examined the extent to which boldness, relative to meanness and …
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The New Harmony: An Adaptive Reuse Transit Hub
… the burden of permanence and exactitude with the fearlessness of an improvising jazz soloist. The jazz-inspired works of Le Corbusier and Piet Mondrian, for example, explored a synesthetic relationship between the visual and the audible has captured the imagination of the great artists, musicians, …
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A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Violent Video Game Play on Capability for Suicide
… violent or non-violent video game condition and fearlessness about death and pain tolerance were assessed at baseline, following exposure to video game play, and at a one-week follow-up. Results revealed no significant between-group differences on changes in capability constructs across time …
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Taking It To The Streets: A Comparative Analysis Of Violent Victimization, The Victim-Offender Overlap, And The Victim-Fear Relationship Among School And Street-Involved Youth In Toronto
… school-based youth. These results suggest that fearlessness may be a learned adaptation among the street-involved youth to survive life on the streets.
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Psychopathic Traits, Skin Conductance, and Emotion in the Normal Population
… response to negative stimuli was associated with fearlessness, lack of empathy, or both. A marginally reliable effect suggested that individuals with higher scores on CA showed stronger emotional responses to for threat than for empathy evoking images. By comparison, individuals low on CA showed …
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Aging among baby boomers
… (a) mastery of stress, (b) female gender, (c) fearlessness, and (d) general optimism about life transitions explained 33% of the self-transcendence experienced by aging Boomers. Contrary to prior assumptions about intra-cohort differences among middle-aged Baby Boomers (Coward, 1996; Light, …
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Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to Assess Evaluations of Death Within Suicidality
… a specific rejection of the negativity (i.e., fearlessness) of death. Results across studies indicate that differential patterns of implicit bias between normative individuals and suicidal ideators were attributable to suicidality specifically rather than the salience of mortality more …