We propose and test a model of criminal decision making that integrates the individual differences perspective with research and theorizing on proximal factors. The individual differences perspective is operationalized using the recent HEXACO personality structure. This structure incorporates the main personality traits, but it carries the advantage of also incorporating Self-Control within its...

BACKGROUND Fibrosis is a physiological response to cellular injury in the liver and is mediated by the activation of hepatic stellate cells resulting in the replacement of hepatocytes with extracellular matrix comprised principally of collagen 1 to form a hepatic scar. Although the novel hexaco-ordinated globin cytoglobin was identified in activated hepatic stellate cells more than 10 years ago...

Older adults are more at risk to become a victim of consumer fraud than any other type of crime (Carcach et al., 2001) but the research on the psychological profiles of senior fraud victims is lacking. To bridge this significant gap, we surveyed 151 (120 female, 111 Caucasian) community-dwelling older adults in Southern Ontario between 60 and 90 years of age about their experiences with fraud. ...

The main purposes of the present study were to see how the term "euthanasia" influences people's support for or opposition to euthanasia; and to see how euthanasia attitude relates to religious orientation and personality factors. In this study two different euthanasia attitude scales were compared. 197 students were selected to fill out either the Euthanasia Attitude Scale (EAS) or Wasserman's...

We examined the unique effects of extraversion and agreeableness (and honesty-humility) on everyday satisfaction with family, friends, romantic life, and acquaintances, and explored potential mediators of these effects. Three diary studies (Ns = 206, 139, 185) were conducted on Singaporean university students. In Studies 1 and 2, participants rated their satisfaction with different relationship...

هدف: با توجه به رشد روزافزون آموزش شیوه مجازی و ویژه در شرایط گسترش پاندمی کرونایروس، نقش اساسی مدیریت کلاسی ارتقا کیفیت باید مورد قرار گیرد این پژوهش هدف تدوین مدل رابطه علّی هدفمند کلاس وضعیت روان‌شناختی پیامدهای تحصیلی دانشجویان انجام شد. روش: روش بر حسب هدف، کاربردی ماهیت از نوع توصیفی - همبستگی بود. جامعه آماری مشتمل انواع مقاطع دانشگاه­ های دولتی پیام نور شهر تهران نمونه اساس جدول مورگان ب...

While attention has been given to maladaptive personality traits in the sexual offending literature, little is known about how individuals who engage child abuse (CSOs) score on general traits, and subgroups of CSOs vary these traits. This study investigated (subgroups of) (n=57) as compared those nonsexual (n=33) nonoffending controls (n=36) by using HEXACO model Reinforcement Sensitivity Theo...

Researchers and practitioners have long been concerned about detrimental effects of socially desirable responding on the structure criterion validity personality assessments. The current research examined effect reducing evaluative item content a Big Five assessment test validity. We developed new public domain measure called Less Evaluative Factor Inventory (LEFFI), adapted from standard 50-it...