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THE AIM OF THE PRESENT PAPER IS TO SYNTHETIZE THEORIES AND OUTCOMES OF RESEACRH IN THE FIELD OF PSHYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY ON ETIOLOGY OF VIOLENT CRIME. THE SPECIFIC EXPLANATIONS FOR THESE ORIENTATIONS PRESENT, AT LARGE, A COMMON ELEMENT WITH BIOLOGY, WHICH I FIND IMPORTANT TO EMPHASIZE, I.E. SOME FLAWS AND DISABILITIES, INNATE OR ACQUIRED (IN POINT OF THE MENTAL, TEMPERAMENT, CHARACTER, PERSONALITY LEVEL) IN THE CASE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH VIOLENT CONDUCT. STARTING FROM THIS CONTEXT, THE ATTENTION WILL BE FOCUSED ON THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACHES CONCERNING: THE INNATE INSTINCTS OF AGGRESIVENESS (FREUD, 1991; ABRAHAMSEN, 1973), LEARNING THE AGGRESSIVE CONDUCT (BANDURA, 1973), THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FRUSTRATION AND AGGRESIVENESS (DOLLARD, 1939), PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND MENTAL ILLNESSES (HALLEK, 1967; HARE ?I MCPHERSON, 1984; SALEKIN ET AL., 1996; PORTER ?I WOODHORTS, 2007; MELOY, 2007; SHAW ?I PORTER 2012). THE MOTIVATION OF THE SUBJECT MATTER REFERS TO THE FACT THAT LATELY ACTS OF VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE FREQUENTLY OCCURRED AT THE SOCIETAL LEVEL SO THAT THEY CAN SOMETIMES BE CONSIDERED COMMON OR FAMILIAR FACTS. AS A MATER OF FACT IT IS ABOUT NOT OBSERVING ANY INDIVIDUAL'S FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIFE, THE INDIVIDUA'S SECURITY AND FREEDOM. CONSEQUENTLY, THIS SOCIAL ISSUE IS WORTH PAYING GREATER ATTENTION FROM RESEARCHERS IN THE DOMAIN AND THE SPECIALIZED ORGANIZATIONS. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE PAPER REFER TO THE CHARACTERISTICS AND LIMITS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS ON VIOLENT CRIMES AND AT THE SAME TIME EMPHASIZE NEW RESEARCH DIRECTIONS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE AIM OF THE PRESENT PAPER IS TO SYNTHETIZE THEORIES AND OUTCOMES OF RESEACRH IN THE FIELD OF PSHYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY ON ETIOLOGY OF VIOLENT CRIME. THE SPECIFIC EXPLANATIONS FOR THESE ORIENTATIONS PRESENT, AT LARGE, A COMMON ELEMENT WITH BIOLOGY, WHICH I FIND IMPORTANT TO EMPHASIZE, I.E. SOME FLAWS AND DISABILITIES, INNATE OR ACQUIRED (IN POINT OF THE MENTAL, TEMPERAMENT, CHARACTER, PERSONALITY LEVEL) IN THE CASE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH VIOLENT CONDUCT. STARTING FROM THIS CONTEXT, THE ATTENTION WILL BE FOCUSED ON THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACHES CONCERNING: THE INNATE INSTINCTS OF AGGRESIVENESS (FREUD, 1991; ABRAHAMSEN, 1973), LEARNING THE AGGRESSIVE CONDUCT (BANDURA, 1973), THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FRUSTRATION AND AGGRESIVENESS (DOLLARD, 1939), PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND MENTAL ILLNESSES (HALLEK, 1967; HARE ?I MCPHERSON, 1984; SALEKIN ET AL., 1996; PORTER ?I WOODHORTS, 2007; MELOY, 2007; SHAW ?I PORTER 2012). THE MOTIVATION OF THE SUBJECT MATTER REFERS TO THE FACT THAT LATELY ACTS OF VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE FREQUENTLY OCCURRED AT THE SOCIETAL LEVEL SO THAT THEY CAN SOMETIMES BE CONSIDERED COMMON OR FAMILIAR FACTS. AS A MATER OF FACT IT IS ABOUT NOT OBSERVING ANY INDIVIDUAL'S FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIFE, THE INDIVIDUA'S SECURITY AND FREEDOM. CONSEQUENTLY, THIS SOCIAL ISSUE IS WORTH PAYING GREATER ATTENTION FROM RESEARCHERS IN THE DOMAIN AND THE SPECIALIZED ORGANIZATIONS. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE PAPER REFER TO THE CHARACTERISTICS AND LIMITS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS ON VIOLENT CRIMES AND AT THE SAME TIME EMPHASIZE NEW RESEARCH DIRECTIONS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper, based on an imagological type of analysis, tries to set into relief the necessity and importace of the dialogue in relation with the Other starting from the discussion of the mechanism of self-revealment. Using this mechanism the social corpus benefits of the opportunity to offer its audience the essential elements defining one's own identity so that the effect should be that of a total opening of the channels of communication with the Other (perceived as stranger), but also of articulating and harmonizing the relational patterns in society. Thus, the negative stereotypal images could gradually lose from their capacity of being transmitted over generations, slowly fading in a process that finally leads to the loss of their penetreating force in the collective mindscaspe, leading to repositioning and behavioural adjustments towards the other. Taking as point of departure in discussion an already „classical" example of negative stereotype, namely the image of the Jew, we have underlined once again the condamnable ease with which a whole nation can be stigmatized and subjected to incredible imagological pressure up to total diabolization. And its effects during a two thousand year history have been devastating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Swearing is a special kind of expressive speech act, whose use is restricted by certain pragmatic parameters that are determined by a given situation of communication (the interlocutors' social role status and their relationship - deference/ intimacy - among others). Structurally, expletives are small-sized verbal sequences. They usually display a standard pattern of construction: - a verb, in the subjunctive or conditional mood with an imperative value (1st, 2nd or 3rd person sg./ pl.) or in the imperative mood (2nd person sg./ pl.), occupies the first position in the utterance. It is most often chosen from the sexually connoted and diaphasically marked register of language: see, for instance, the counterpart of the standard language verb phrases a avea contact sexual 'to have sexual intercourse' and a întreține contact sexual 'to engage in sexual intercourse' or of the verbs a se împerechea 'to mate' and a se acupla 'to copulate' in the slang language of expletives (a (se) fute 'to fuck'). The swear verb is followed by - a clitic (an unstressed pronoun), -te (2nd person sg.)/ -vă (2nd person pl.), syntactically functioning as a direct object and identifying the patient of the expletive expressive speech act, and by - an anthroponym designating the referent, a real individual (Ceaușescu) or fictional figure (Aladin), who is "invited" in absentia (by means of evocation) to (fancifully) act out/ to perform the action expressed by the verb. The present paper proposes a classification and analysis of Romanian expletives that contain anthroponyms on three levels: grammatical, semantic-stylistic and suprasentential (textual-discursive). To support our subsequent arguments, we make use of precepts specific to the following linguistic subjects: functional grammar, pragmastylistics, speech act theory and sociolinguistics. The corpus explored was compiled by the authors and includes genuine expressive speech acts (i. e. expletives), taken from spoken or written (Internet) spontaneous interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper is a longitudinal research project that analyzes the psychological aspect of belonging to a social network, more specifically Facebook. A heuristic model of qualitative research was utilized, incorporating the six stages of heuristic study: initial engagement, immersion, incubation, illumination, explication, and creative synthesis to determine the initial stage of the experience, as well as MMPI testing. As the study progressed the sample experienced 4 MMPI testing session. Data was collected from 120 participants and revealed four common themes: 1) Authenticity, 2) Integration of On and Offline Lives, 3) Social Network As a Social Microcosm, 4) Undefined Boundaries . The identified themes indicate that the active participation tends to have a negative impact over the individual perception of safety, and creates a distorted perception, even an alienation of reality. The MMPI results were showing that after prolonged active participation( minimum 2 hours per day), subjects progressed towards cognitive, emotional, thought and behavioral dysfunctions, with paranoid tendencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]