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Does Empathy Attenuate the Criminogenic Effect of Low Self-Control in Late Life?
The present study investigates whether empathy shapes the criminogenic effect of low self-control in late adulthood. Based on the assumption that the capacity to understand and share the thoughts and emotions of other people moderates the significance of the capability to consider the distant consequences of behaviour on oneself, we posit that poor self-control is less consequential among senior citizens of high empathy. The results of a postal survey of 3,000 randomly selected older adults from Germany indicate that both low trait self-control and weak trait empathy increase offending in advanced age. Furthermore, the findings provide evidence of an interaction according to which the relationship between the risk-taking component of the self-control trait and criminal activity is stronger for older adults characterised by low empathy. Impulsivity, on the other hand, seems to mediate the association of empathy and offending in late life
Quark Matter and Nuclear Collisions: A Brief History of Strong Interaction Thermodynamics
The past fifty years have seen the emergence of a new field of research in
physics, the study of matter at extreme temperatures and densities. The theory
of strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), predicts that in this
limit, matter will become a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons -- the
medium which made up the early universe in the first 10 microseconds after the
big bang. High energy nuclear collisions are expected to produce short-lived
bubbles of such a medium in the laboratory. I survey the merger of statistical
QCD and nuclear collision studies for the analysis of strongly interacting
matter in theory and experiment.Comment: 24 pages, 14 figures Opening Talk at the 5th Berkeley School on
Collective Dynamics in High Energy Collisions, LBNL Berkeley/California, May
14 - 18, 201
HARD PROBES OF DENSE MATTER
Direct probes for the QGP must be hard enough to resolve sub-hadronic scales
(\ll \la^{-1}) and distinguish confined and deconfined media. This can be
achieved by fast colour charges (jets) and heavy quark resonances (quarkonia).
After a general survey, we study quarkonia as confinement probe and show in
particular that confined matter is transparent, deconfined matter opaque to
\J's.Comment: 13 pages, plain TeX, figures available upon request from the autho
PHASE-TRANSITIONS IN THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE - PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY-OF-BIELEFELD, FED-REP-GERMANY JUNE 4-8, 1984 - PARTICLE PHYSICS - PREFACE
Baier R, Satz H. PHASE-TRANSITIONS IN THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE - PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY-OF-BIELEFELD, FED-REP-GERMANY JUNE 4-8, 1984 - PARTICLE PHYSICS - PREFACE. NUCLEAR PHYSICS B. 1985;252(1-2):vii-R7
Zum Hoechsten der Menschheit antifaschistischer Widerstandskampf der KPD und KPTsch in den Grenzgebieten der Oberlausitz und Liberec/ Varnsdorf 1933-1938
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Does empathy attenuate the criminogenic effect of low self-control in late life?
The present study investigates whether empathy shapes the criminogenic effect of low self-control in late adulthood. Based on the assumption that the capacity to understand and share the thoughts and emotions of other people moderates the significance of the capability to consider the distant consequences of behaviour on oneself, we posit that poor self-control is less consequential among senior citizens of high empathy. The results of a postal survey of 3,000 randomly selected older adults from Germany indicate that both low trait self-control and weak trait empathy increase offending in advanced age. Furthermore, the findings provide evidence of an interaction according to which the relationship between the risk-taking component of the self-control trait and criminal activity is stronger for older adults characterised by low empathy. Impulsivity, on the other hand, seems to mediate the association of empathy and offending in late life.</p