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In this paper we aim to analyze some of the attitudes of the man Macedonski, through which he approaches the problematic psychology of Mannerist individualities. Acquiring a partially "educated" personality, overwhelmed by negative criticism, but satisfied that his name is on everyone's lips, Macedonski projects through his way of being, many of the existential dilemmas of the Mannerist man. Self-worship and emphatic attitude become the core of the most controversial manifestations at the individual level. Therefore, in this part of the study, we discussed the poet's relationship with temporality, the oscillation between dream and reality, the failure as a tragic end that pursues the destiny of the Mannerists, the dandy spirit, the mystification of reality and the deficient relationships with otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that are important in the individual's tendency to build a positive self-image. Knowing others and self-knowledge is a goal of each of us, but by mirroring ourselves in others we discover aspects of ourselves. Thus, selfformation is initiated by knowing others and ends by knowing our own person. Social perception with the aim of getting to know other individuals represents a cognitive segment, with the help of which the person can outline an image of himself and at the same time build his opinion about others. The manifested phenomenon has a perspective of the individual who makes an approach starting from himself and puts his own person in dialectical opposition with the other characters found in the context. So, the self-image does not denote the result of a usual introspection, but "a double knowledge" of the personality, according to the French psychologist Paul Fraisse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to be an incursion into the fi eld of counterintelligence (CI) analysis which is essential in order to achieve a security agenda established by political and military decision makers. Being such a vast domain connected with psychology, security studies, law, military tactics, CI analysis should be enframed between some solid borders. The Latin phrases “cogito ergo sum” and “fi at lux” have in their core some characteristics which can be found in the process of counterintelligence analysis. This is the main reason why this paper tries to explain the similarities between the CI analysis and those phrases. In addition to that, during these pages, relevant aspects for the CI analysis such as critical thinking and cognitive biases is approached, as well as the relationships between CI organizations and political and military decision makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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]

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The author tries to show some of psychological challenges that every intelligence service and every intelligence analyst have to face in their specifi c work, providing timely decision-makers intelligence products in order to support their decisions. In this paper, the author puts an equality sign between the intelligence analysis and intelligence production or intelligence processing that is viewed with its specifi c phases (collation, assessment, analysis, integration and interpretation of the raw data and information). In a general view, the analysis is defi ned cutting a whole thing into component parts using a scientifi c method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There are in Althusser's philosophical production clear passages that lead us to conceive the ideological machinery not only under the common interpretation of class domination and social reproduction, but also considering the subversive and transforming movement that the very conception of ideology enables. This paper is based on the language of theatrical metaphors--which express the displacements of ideological subjection and subversion to think reproduction and its vanishing point inside the mise-en-scene of the Capitalist system. [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 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]

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The emotional aspect of human life is a continuum aspect of research especially by the long term implication on the adaptive process to social environment. This rises new connections, in particular in the human relationships area. This paper tries to reveal the implication that the emotional area has on the way that the preadolescents with mental deficiency chose Alter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present paper illustrates several significant moments from the history of Eminescu's critical interpretation. It focuses mainly on the first stages when the Romantic writer's myth crystallized, namely E Lovinescu's "reading" of the poet's eroticism through the lens of Freud's theories. We endeavored to prove that Lovinescu's interpretation was just one among others (Ibrăileanu, Călinescu, Vianu, Caracostea), as the whole context favored a psychological understanding of Eminescu's personality. In order to sketch a still more convincing picture we brought into discussion the most recent studies dealing with different aspects of Eminescu's life and work and our conclusion shows clearly that, notwithstanding its limits, Lovinescu's understanding was a revolutionary and crucial one for the later developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current meta-analysis represents an objective literature review of the studies that examine the relationship between work-family conflict and work performance. The overall aim of this paper is to investigate said relationship in an objective manner and to provide a measurable summary of the literature. Through the use of PsycInfo -- the main database that deals with psychology articles and Academic Search Complete--a multi-disciplinary database, we identified eight studies that deal with the connection between work-family conflict and work performance. By examining the available information, a number of five hypotheses were developed. In order to study the relationship between the two concepts, we employed the fixed effects model. Thus, we found out that work-life conflict is negatively correlated with job performance. In addition, results indicate that the age and gender of the participants as well as the method used to evaluate performance did not influence said relationship. Conversely, we determined that marital status is an important factor that models the relationship between job performance and work-family conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the importance of conversation for beginners in Italian as L2. We have structured our paper in two parts. In the first part, we have delineated the theoretical frame of the conversation issue for beginners (level A1-A2) in L2. Our intention is to highlight the relationship established among social dimension/ communication/ conversation and, therefore, to highlight the teaching methods and strategies used for the improvement of communication skills. The second part is dedicated to practical aspects about conversation and offers some of the possible approaches employed for this level of proficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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]

Image did not always have a privileged status, and imagination did not benefit of an increased attention till the invention of television. The faculty of imagination occupied a secondary role in man's life, most of the times being identified as a source of fraud or of the hidden truth. Nevertheless, imagination is a human ability which, consciously or not, has manifested its presence in man's existence and behavior. Together with the development of new informational technologies, that amplify the role of image, the imagination understood as creative force is reinstated and its value is acknowledged. In this context, the myth, seen once as imaginary story, appears as a form of thinking that oversees the connection between imagination and reality. Thus, in the present paper, I suggest an analysis of the relation between imagination and reality by means of the notion of myth, as constitutive element of human thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we intent to show which are the social representations the young people from Romania have regarding globalization and national identity. We try to answer the question if globalization could be a negative process for our cultural security and if the young people are still attached by the romanian cultural values. As research methods, we used the in-depth interview, which offered us the possibility to identify some deep aspects of the young people attitudes towards the impact of globalization on national identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexual perversions presented a certain interest from the oldest times being approached of psychiatry, psychology, medicine, religion and the law, as well. Even if not as "sexual perversions" we may find references about the criminalization of such acts prior to the current Romanian Penal Code. Article 201 of the current Penal Code criminalizes sexual perversion. The forthcoming criminal legislation brings a new vision regarding the offenses relating to sexual life without including a distinct offense of sexual perversion. In this paper an overview of the various opinions on the discussed topic as well as of the aspects relating to the evolution of the incrimination in our legislation is made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pro domo. This paper is likely to be unique through tentatively defining a psychological profile of the patients with slow transit constipation. If such a psychological profile is proved to exist and to predispose to constipation, improving it through psychological interventions could lead to an improved colonic transit. Objective. Defining a psychological profile of the patients complaining of slow intestinal transit, as few if any references upon this subject are to be found in literature. Method. The subjects have been patients with various internal disorders (including constipation). An approximately one-hour talk was conducted with each of them in order to identify their psychological features (PFs) (among 143 possible ones). Thereafter we examined each PF in turn, with the aim of finding out if and to what degree is it associated with any among the various areas of pathology. Results. PFs having an absolutely statistically significant association with constipation are: „attached to her/ his habitual pleasures, comfort, routine‟, „desires safety/security", „conservative, dogmatic, rigid‟, „tendency to develop attachments‟. PFs having a relatively statistically significant association with constipation are: „dislikes dirt/uncleanness‟, „fear of disease‟, „obstinate, strong-willed, maintaining/supporting his opinion and disliking contradiction‟, „preoccupied with material/ financial security‟. Conclusions. A possible psychological profile of patients complaining of delayed stools may centre around fixity and inertia, as expressing the patient's preference for a stable, safe, comfortable, risk-free situation, lacking any sort of challenges (pecuniary, health-related or otherwise). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many citizens consider, on the one side, as being unsatisfactory the way the institutions of democratic political system is functioning, and, on the other side, the same voices are expressing themselves in favor of searching for, maintaining or studying thoroughly democracy, which is appreciated as the most desirable political regime. Citizens don't want to abandon democracy, but on the contrary. The political expectations of many of them are bound up of increasing democratization. This finding may be used as a possible explanation for the ascension of populist political movements, observable in the last years in the entire democratic world. Populism promises to give back and to respect the sovereignty of the people, to defence the liberty, the rights and the welfare of the simple citizens, against the enemies which are vitiating the democratic political system. Consequently, populist political movements tend to be considered a solution for getting more democracy. However, despite of willing more democracy, citizens, through populism, may be in the case of receiving less democracy, or even absolutely nothing. A proper knowledge of the political reality, of the limits that democratic political systems have, and of the illusions spread by the populist political programs could protect us from dangerous political experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historiography of World War I is almost entirely statocentric, and reluctant to open up to transdisciplinary perspectives. In order to address this shortcoming, this article draws a link between the psychology of German elites during the summer of 1914, German strategic culture and the instrumentalisation of different transnational revolutionary and nationalistic networks in order to undermine Allied rezistance. Namely we focus our attention on the relationship between Berlin and Ghadar Party, a cell of Indian expats fighting to free their mainland against the British masters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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