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View article: Population Heterogeneity Among the Six Factors of Aggressive Personality
Population Heterogeneity Among the Six Factors of Aggressive Personality Open
Dozens of dispositional aggressiveness questionnaires and their idiosyncratic factor structures have been distilled into six factors: Relational, Angry, Violent, Retaliatory, Intimate, and Alcohol Aggression. Do sub-populations exist that …
View article: Disentangling Sadism from schadenfreude as traits using latent construct modeling
Disentangling Sadism from schadenfreude as traits using latent construct modeling Open
Sadism represents a predisposition towards enjoying the suffering that an individual causes to others. However, this conceptualization of Sadism closely abuts that of schadenfreude—finding pleasure in others’ suffering. The relationship be…
View article: Population Heterogeneity Among the Six Factors of Aggressive Personality
Population Heterogeneity Among the Six Factors of Aggressive Personality Open
Dozens of dispositional aggressiveness questionnaires and their idiosyncratic factor structures have been distilled into six factors: Relational, Angry, Violent, Retaliatory, Intimate, and Alcohol Aggression. Do sub-populations exist that …
View article: Heterogeneity in the Structure of Aggressive Personality
Heterogeneity in the Structure of Aggressive Personality Open
Aggressiveness is a core feature of many personality disorders. Dozens of dispositional aggressiveness scales exist with their own idiosyncratic factor structures, but they can be distilled down into six factors: Relational, Angry, Violent…
View article: Disentangling Sadism from schadenfreude as traits using latent construct modeling
Disentangling Sadism from schadenfreude as traits using latent construct modeling Open
Sadism represents a predisposition towards enjoying the suffering that an individual causes to others. However, this conceptualization of Sadism closely abuts that of schadenfreude—finding pleasure in others’ suffering. The relationship be…
View article: Interactive Effects of Mindfulness and Negative Urgency on Intimate Partner Aggression Perpetration
Interactive Effects of Mindfulness and Negative Urgency on Intimate Partner Aggression Perpetration Open
Intimate partner aggression (IPA) is a costly and incompletely understood phenomenon. Negative urgency, the tendency to act impulsively in response to negative affect, is predictive of IPA perpetration. Mindfulness, by virtue of its emphas…
View article: P1072 Upadacitinib appears effective in inducing clinical, biochemical, endoscopic and histologic improvements in previously treatment refractory Ulcerative Colitis
P1072 Upadacitinib appears effective in inducing clinical, biochemical, endoscopic and histologic improvements in previously treatment refractory Ulcerative Colitis Open
Background Upadacitinib is a novel, oral agent which acts by inhibition of JAK signaling. It has proven efficacy in large-scale, randomised trials for the treatment of UC. We report our real-world experience of upadacitinib as induction th…
View article: Aggression by Omission: Redefining and Measuring an Understudied Construct
Aggression by Omission: Redefining and Measuring an Understudied Construct Open
Researchers of aggression have classically focused on what has been previously called active aggression—the deliberate infliction of harm through direct application of deleterious consequences. However, the counterpart to this, what was or…
View article: Inside the mindful moment: The effects of brief mindfulness practice on large-scale network organization and intimate partner aggression
Inside the mindful moment: The effects of brief mindfulness practice on large-scale network organization and intimate partner aggression Open
Mindfulness can produce neuroplastic changes that support adaptive cognitive and emotional functioning. Recently interest in single-exercise mindfulness instruction has grown considerably due to the advent of mobile health technology. Acco…
View article: The holistic bricolage research approach and disaster-risk reduction
The holistic bricolage research approach and disaster-risk reduction Open
This paper calls for scholars to consider and reflect on the potential advantages of the application of a holistic bricolage approach within a wider range of research contexts including disaster-risk reduction (DRR). We introduce holistic …
View article: Decision-making processes in organizational arrangements: An analysis in the light of population ecology and resource dependence
Decision-making processes in organizational arrangements: An analysis in the light of population ecology and resource dependence Open
Increasingly, in contemporary organizations, discussions about decision-making have been occupying a relevant space, because the "decision maker" has the responsibility of making decisions for the organization, considering that the entire …
View article: The Structure of Aggressive Personality
The Structure of Aggressive Personality Open
Objective: Measures and models of trait aggression have multiplied to the point of incoherence. We sought to factor analyze a broad array of aggression measures to identify a comprehensive, coherent factor structure for this construct.Meth…
View article: Aggression As Successful Self-Control
Aggression As Successful Self-Control Open
A dominant narrative is that aggression starts when self-control stops --- unchecked aggressive impulses manifest in violence as self-control fails to inhibit them. Yet this ‘low self-control syndrome’ approach to aggression fails to accom…
View article: Sadism is a Lower-Order Facet of Schadenfreude
Sadism is a Lower-Order Facet of Schadenfreude Open
Sadism represents a predisposition towards enjoying the suffering that we cause others. However, this conceptualization of Sadism closely abuts that of schadenfreude—the tendency to find pleasure in others’ suffering. The relationship betw…
View article: Interactive Effects of Mindfulness and Negative Urgency on Intimate Partner Aggression Perpetration
Interactive Effects of Mindfulness and Negative Urgency on Intimate Partner Aggression Perpetration Open
IIntimate partner aggression (IPA) is a costly and incompletely understood phenomenon. Negative urgency, the tendency to act impulsively in response to negative affect, is predictive of IPA perpetration. Mindfulness, by virtue of its empha…
View article: DNA sequence and structure under the prism of group theory and algebraic surfaces
DNA sequence and structure under the prism of group theory and algebraic surfaces Open
Taking a DNA-sequence, a word with letters/bases A, T, G and C, as the relation between the generators of an infinite group $\pi$, one can discriminate two important families: (i) the cardinality structure for conjugacy classes of subgroup…
View article: Neural Mechanisms of Intergroup Exclusion and Retaliatory Aggression
Neural Mechanisms of Intergroup Exclusion and Retaliatory Aggression Open
Aggression occurs frequently and severely between rival groups. Although there has been much study into the psychological and socio-ecological determinants of intergroup aggression, the neuroscience of this phenomenon remains incomplete. T…
View article: Conjugation matters. Bioctonionic Veronese vectors and Cayley–Rosenfeld planes
Conjugation matters. Bioctonionic Veronese vectors and Cayley–Rosenfeld planes Open
Motivated by the recent interest in Lie algebraic and geometric structures arising from tensor products of division algebras and their relevance to high energy theoretical physics, we analyze generalized bioctonionic projective and hyperbo…
View article: Harming In Order To Help: An Empirical Characterization of Prosocial Aggression
Harming In Order To Help: An Empirical Characterization of Prosocial Aggression Open
People sometimes inflict harm with the intent to help the very target of their aggression. Across six studies (N = 1,527), we examined the nature of such prosocial aggression. Many participants believed that altruistically-motivated aggres…
View article: Group Theory of Syntactical Freedom in DNA Transcription and Genome Decoding
Group Theory of Syntactical Freedom in DNA Transcription and Genome Decoding Open
Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that recognize specific DNA fragments in order to decode the genome and ensure its optimal functioning. TFs work at the local and global scales by specifying cell type, cell growth and death, cell m…
View article: A Multi-Hazard Historical Catalogue for the City-Island-State of Malta (Central Mediterranean)
A Multi-Hazard Historical Catalogue for the City-Island-State of Malta (Central Mediterranean) Open
The city-island-state of Malta is traditionally viewed as a low-hazard country with the lack of a long historical catalogue of extreme events and their impacts acting as an obstacle to formulating evidence-based policies of disaster risk r…
View article: Some Revenge Now or More Revenge Later? Applying an Intertemporal Framework to Retaliatory Aggression
Some Revenge Now or More Revenge Later? Applying an Intertemporal Framework to Retaliatory Aggression Open
Retaliatory aggression is a rewarding behavior. Decisions about rewarding behaviors often involve an intertemporal bias, such that people prefer immediate rewards and discount delayed rewards. We integrated these literatures to test whethe…
View article: The city‐island‐state, wounding cascade, and multi‐level vulnerability explored through the lens of Malta
The city‐island‐state, wounding cascade, and multi‐level vulnerability explored through the lens of Malta Open
In this paper, we introduce the concept of “city‐island‐state” into a discussion of small highly urbanised islands. We place the “city” at the forefront of our analysis by bringing together the geographies of the “city” and “state,” togeth…
View article: Alcohol-Related, Drug-Related, and Non-Substance-Related Aggression: Three Facets of a Single Construct or Three Distinct Constructs?
Alcohol-Related, Drug-Related, and Non-Substance-Related Aggression: Three Facets of a Single Construct or Three Distinct Constructs? Open
BACKGROUND: Aggression often occurs alongside alcohol and drug misuse. However, it is not clear whether the latent and manifest relations among alcohol-related, drug-related, and non-substance-related aggression are separate manifestations…
View article: The Push of Social Pain: Does Rejection’s Sting Motivate Subsequent Social Reconnection?
The Push of Social Pain: Does Rejection’s Sting Motivate Subsequent Social Reconnection? Open
Physical pain motivates the healing of somatic injuries. Yet it remains unknown whether social pain serves a similarly reparative function towards social injuries. Given the substantial overlap between physical and social pain, we predicte…
View article: The Flux, Pulse, and Spin of Aggression-Related Affect
The Flux, Pulse, and Spin of Aggression-Related Affect Open
Aggression is an affect-laden behavior. The within-person variability of affective states that immediately precede, accompany, and follow aggression — and their links to between-person variability in aggressive behavior and traits — remain…