OBJECTIVE To review homicides committed during psychotic illness in New South Wales over 10 years from 1993 to 2002. DESIGN AND SETTING Case series of all known homicides committed during psychotic illness in NSW, taken from reports of psychiatrists submitted in proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Demographic and clinical features of perpetrators; estimated freque...

Isaac Levi has long criticized causal decision theory on the grounds that it requires deliberating agents to make predictions about their own actions. A rational agent cannot, he claims, see herself as free to choose an act while simultaneously making a prediction about her likelihood of performing it. Levi is wrong on both points. First, nothing in causal decision theory forces agents to make ...

This study evaluates the contents of representations of skin cancer risk and their associations with risk appraisals, worry, and protection intentions and behaviors. The Assessment of Illness Risk Representations (AIRR) was used to measure conceptual and imagery contents of risk representations, as delineated by the Common-Sense Model. University students (N = 120) completed the AIRR; measures ...

The aim of the study was to examine some overlooked individual difference (demography, ideology, ability) correlates attitudes being vaccinated with Covid-19 vaccine. Six hundred and sixteen adults were asked about receiving COVID-19 relationship between demographic (age, sex, education), ideology (political religious beliefs), intelligence (cognitive vaccination (acceptance, hesitancy, rejecti...