Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new development within behavioral therapy. Its goal is to promote psychological flexibility. Numerous studies show that suffering results when people attempt to avoid their inner experiences (experiential avoidance). This experiential avoidance often leads to rigid and inflexible behavior that also leads them to compromise their goals and what is imp...

In this fMRI study, we investigated the convergence of underlying neural networks in thinking about a scenario involving one's own intentional action and its consequences and setting up and holding in mind an intention to act. A factorial design was employed comprising two factors: i. Causality (intentional or physical events) and ii. Prospective Memory (present or absent). In each condition, s...

Aid, Growth, and Jobs Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and services th...

This study compared the efficacy of multisystemic therapy (MST) and individual therapy (IT) in the outpatient treatment of adolescent sexual offenders. Sixteen adolescent sexual offenders were randomly assigned to either MST or IT conditions. Youths in the MST and IT conditions received an average of 37 hours and 45 hours of treatment, respectively. Recidivism data were collected on all subject...

It is my intention in giving this paper to set the scene for the following papers and discussions. Crime, in the minds of most people, is becoming an increasingly serious problem. Whilst the majority of crimes are on the increase, it is those involving violence which cause us the most concern. However, that increase is not so apparent when we turn from the newspapers to hard statistics. From 19...

The task that brought about this comment required the learner, an Open University student of German, to use a concept map to make a list of all the roles he played in everyday real life, including being an online language learner. The learner then had to imagine that each of these was a job he was applying for and had to write down the qualities he could bring to each job, bearing in mind that ...

The author identifies acts of humiliation as a specific and often traumatic way of exercising power, with a set of consistently occurring elements and predictable consequences, including a loss of the ability to trust others. It is argued that these consequences are serious and long-lasting. The article makes a distinction between 'shame' as a state of mind and 'humiliation' as an act perpetrat...

The importance of the topic is highlighted, from very fact that culpability set according to level blameworthiness on part accused. This known as guilty mind or be more precise a blameworthy state mind. There are many degrees kinds mens rea, with their corresponding levels like Intention, knowledge, recklessness, negligence, etc. punishment decreases rea fall ladder. in criminal jurisprudence a...

Although Nigerian elections are sufficiently observed by domestic and international observer groups, the frequent pronouncements of religious leaders claiming to have supernatural insights into election outcomes never captured attention these observers. This is despite fact that prophecy may adverse effects on electoral process survival Nigeria’s nascent democracy. paper critiques failure obser...

In recent years, a number of commentators have criticized corporate law's traditional commitment to shareholder primacy because of the costs it imposes on nonshareholder corporate constituencies. The phrase "shareholder primacy" refers to management's legal duty to pursue shareholder wealth maximization without regard for competing considerations. Despite the jarring social effects of the hosti...