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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"provocation"”.
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Battered women: self-defence and provocation
The act of 'being battered' is within the realm of experience of many women and may involve not only actual physical assault but also psychologically debilitating practices, all of which occur in a society which seems to be unable to realise the extent of the problem. 'Wife beating' has always been …
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Types of Aggression, Responsiveness to Provocation, and Psychopathic Traits
… on aggressive responding (during a computerized provocation task with low and high provocation trials), on callous and unemotional traits (CU) and on psychophysiological indices of emotional reactivity. All aggressive groups showed greater aggressive responding to high provocation than to low …
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Provocation In The Political Theories Of Plato, Rousseau And Nietzsche
… framework to define and describe the concept of provocation as well as to analyze and explain the theoretical provocations in Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche's works. I assess their works as well as a wide-ranging body of scholarship both on the concept and the theorists, to …
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Emotion Regulation and Cardiovascular Response to Emotion Provocation: Reappraisal versus Suppression
Emotion regulation is a process through which individuals alter the subjective, behavioral and physiological responses to emotional experiences. Within the emotion regulation model, reappraisal and suppression are two strategies that have been studied extensively. However, this research has largely …
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An Examination Of Aggressive Responding To Visual Feedback And Physical Provocation
… Paradigm to test whether a form of visual provocation might be more salient in producing a physically aggressive response than a physical stimulus (i.e., shock). Male and female university undergraduates were recruited to participate, and assigned to one of three conditions: accurate visual …
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Reliability and validity of selected pain provocation tests at the sacroiliac joint
… inter examiner reliability and validity of pain provocation tests at the SIJ. Two examiners tested fifty participants, mean age 23. Sixteen participants were symptomatic for sacroiliac joint dysfunction. Examiners were blinded to participants inclusion criteria and examinations findings. Cohen's …
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Provocation, intent and harm: factors affecting public support for restorative justice processes
… 2 (Intent: High, Low) x 2 (Harm: High, Low) x 2 (Provocation: High, Low) between-subjects experimental vignette study, we manipulated circumstances surrounding an assault. Results showed that participants judged the restorative justice procedure to be more respectful than court and whether the …
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Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur: motivation, provocation and characterisation
This thesis takes a fresh, character-based approach to the Íslendingasögur. It is inspired by a narratological study that unites the functional and structural role of characters with their human, individualistic portrayal. My major objective is to demonstrate the important connection between …
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The Influence of Affective Ties on Children's Consequential Reasoning about Ambiguous Provocation Situations
Past models (i.e., Crick and Dodge, 1994) of children’s social information processing (SIP) have neglected to include the role of emotions in children’s reasoning during social situations. A recent reformulation (Lemerise and Arsenio, 2000) updated Crick and Dodge’s model to incorporate emotions …
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Ennobling Each Other Through Collaborative Inquiry: Exploring Music as a Provocation for Leadership Development
… illuminates the strong potential of music as a provocation for leadership development and reveals crucial realizations in the area of facilitation in collective processes.</p> <p>This dissertation tells the story of the inquiry with the voices of its coinquirers and offers insights on …
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Friend Or Foe: The Effect Of Shared Group Status On Aggressiveness And Testosterone In Response To Provocation
… status on reactive aggression in response to provocation. Using a previously validated measure of reactive aggression, participants were provoked by and given a chance to aggress on to either a racial ingroup or outgroup member. Participants also provided saliva samples to allow for monitoring …
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Climate as provocation of preservation standards and procedure in historic districts of the floodprone U.S. : lessons from Palm View, Miami Beach
With many historic resources located in coastal, flood-prone environments, much has been written in the last two decades about the (re)negotiation of local preservation regulatory standards to facilitate adoption and uptake of on-site flood-mitigating measures for low-lying historic buildings and …
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Correlation between Locally Produced Specific IgA and Eosinophil Cationic Protein in Nasal Lavage Fluids of Allergic Rhinitis Patients during Allergen Provocation Tests
… (Dp) according to positive responses to nasal provocation tests were enrolled in this study (positive group). Ten asymptomatic, sensitized subjects were enrolled as the control group. Of the positive responders, early (N = 7) and dual (N = 6) responders were categorized according to the …
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Profil neurocognitif de l’enfant avec un TDAH seul et un TDAH associé à un trouble oppositionnel avec provocation ou un trouble anxieux
… TDAH compliqué d’un Trouble oppositionnel avec provocation (TOP) ou d’un Trouble anxieux (TA). Le TDAH est associé à des déficits exécutifs (p. ex., inhibition, flexibilité cognitive, planification, mémoire de travail) et attentionnels (p. ex., attention sélective, soutenue, partagée). Ces …
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A comparative examination of the extent to which the South African and the English legal systems recognize the defence of provocation in homicide cases
… to an accused in such cases. Since the issue of provocation in South African law usually arises in homicide cases, this study will be restricted to such cases. It will be shown that, during the past couple of decades, the South African law relating to provocation has undergone significant …
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Motivation and Morality in Intimate Partner Violence: A Partial Test of Situational Action Theory
… and IPV perpetration is explored for both the provocation and temptation motivation pathways defined in SAT. This research uses a mixed-methods approach of a questionnaire and semi-structured interview vignettes to address the three aims: (a) to explore the relationship between motivation and …
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Children's evaluations of moral and conventional retaliations
… interpret and justify situations of moral provocation and retaliation and that their disapproval of provocation increases with age (Astor, 1994; Smetana, Campione-Barr & Yell, 2003). The current study aimed to discover whether children judge moral provocation and retaliation as worse than …
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Influence of ADHD and Concussion History on Vestibular-Oculomotor Performance and Recovery Time in NCAA Division I Athletes with Sport-Related Concussion
… been proposed as potential modifiers of symptom provocation and recovery time, though their effects remain unclear in collegiate athletes. Purpose: To investigate whether ADHD and prior concussion history independently or jointly influence VOMS symptom provocation and recovery time in NCAA …
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The Effects of Instigation, Experiential Avoidance, and Emotion Dysregulation on Dating Aggression
… of three processes: instigating cues (e.g., provocation), aggressive-impelling forces (e.g., experiential avoidance), and diminished inhibition (e.g., emotion dysregulation). Recent research suggests that higher levels of experiential avoidance and emotion dysregulation may moderate the …
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An Experimental Analysis of Couple Aggression Using a Response Choice Paradigm
… to choose whether to retaliate in the face of provocation by their partner. Couples were randomly assigned to four conditions representing different patterns of provocation. Based on the assigned condition, participants received varying amounts of bad tasting juice allegedly poured for them by …
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