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

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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