A 9 year-old boy has a 4-year history of attention-decifit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), combined presentation and recent diagnoses of oppositional defiant disorder, severe and rule out conduct disorder, childhood-onset. He has a history of defiance and physical aggression toward his mother, with episodes escalating in severity. He was recently suspended from his school for assaulting the vice...

This article reviews a theory of explanatory coherence that provides a psychologically plausible account of how people evaluate competing explanations. The theory is implemented in a computational model that uses simple artificial neural networks to simulate many important cases of scientific and legal reasoning. Current research directions include extensions to emotional thinking and implement...

Three experiments examined the impact of excessive violence in sport video games on aggression-related variables. Participants played either a nonviolent simulation-based sports video game (baseball or football) or a matched excessively violent sports video game. Participants then completed measures assessing aggressive cognitions (Experiment 1), aggressive affect and attitudes towards violence...

It is an honor and a privilege to have received the engaged comments of these distinguished philosophers on Rights Demands.1 I thank them for time thought they put into them. Each commentator makes points not been able address in space available, many do discuss deserve longer treatment. hope that, even so, responsive notes will help further clarify defend ideas expressed book. An important the...

The everyday difficulties faced by working-class women, including access to food, are aggravated in critical periods, such as wars and economic crises. However, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was accompanied a revolution, Republican zones, where women opened spaces for their emancipation. By examining social reproduction practices surrounding food Barcelona during years 1936–1939, we contrib...

This article critically examines rape scenes in two films of the ‘new extreme cinema’, Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible (2002) and Catherine Breillat’s A ma sœur!/Fat Girl (2001). On the surface, Noé’s disturbing long-take rape scene is clearly designed to foster empathy with the woman’s experience and to induce a physical aversion to rape. However, a deeper examination of the scene’s ambiguous techni...

In a 1990 article of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Clare Brant, a medical doctor who spent a career practicing psychiatry among his people, the Mohawk, wrote of how cultural influences in the realm of mental health contributed to errors in medical diagnosis and treatment, too often with destructive results. This article similarly examines the manifestation of Brant’s “Native ethics and ru...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether externalizing and internalizing outcomes in preschool-aged children are associated with harsh parental discipline, and whether the child’s gender plays a role in this relationship. 237 three-year-old children were part of a longitudinal study of preschoolers at risk for school-age conduct problems. Questionnaires were completed by mothers to as...

The concept of appropriation of turning property into ones own (or "pwning it" [1]) is common to art at least since the 1970s. Back then, Appropriation Art sought the de-contextualisation of consumerism's symbols: brands, advertisements and logos. Today, it is paralleled by the digital hijacking of mass-produced (cultural) products and the succeeding abduction of digital content. A number of pi...

Existing research shows that many university students will be the victims of interpersonal violence at some point during their college experience. Often, these acts occur between individuals that not only know one another, but are romantically involved. With that in mind, the present study had two specific goals. The primary goal was to examine the prevalence of verbal, physical, sexual victimi...