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Worry is a cognitive process anticipating the possible consequences of a situation that affects decision-making processes beyond its adaptive function of alertness and balance of own resources to cope with situations. Early research on worry focuses on its most common causes and frequency. More recently, some studies examined people's explanations to justify high levels of worry despite the high costs involved. From this second perspec-tive, in this study, we analyze worry and its relationship with decision-making patterns in a Mexican sample (N= 116; 66 males, 50 females). We also compare the scores of the Mexican sample in decision-making patterns with those of the members of other cultures, Anglo-Saxon and Asian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A decision conflict is present when a person wants and, simultaneously, not wants to follow an action course. This paper describes firstly the double decision conflict on the physicist Werner Heisenberg: Conflict regarding decisions of going into exile or to remain in the Nazi Germany, and with regard to the degree of scientific collaboration with the Nazi regime to create an atomic bomb. Secondly, discusses the fact that on the summer of 1945 while Oppenheimer was celebrated by his success in coordinating the Manhattan project, which made possible the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Heisenberg was in detention for his scientific collaboration with the Nazi regime even when the collaboration was parsimonious and limited. Finally, the Author discusses the ethical and practical problem of the relation between science and power: when scientists forced to serve power are judged lately according to victories and defeats of such power that personally are not imputed to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Differing from a well-intentioned traditional pacifism that adopts a willing attitude due its ideological platform at having contact with the reality intending its utopian modification, the culture of peace is not a culture that intends the impossible eradication of all conflicts, but its management in a constructive way. The psychology of analysis and conflict resolution, discipline relatively young, is building a scientific, methodological and growing knowledge over the dynamics of human conflictivity from diverse fields such as decision-making, negotiation and mediation. A culture of peace is proposed based on the reality of what we know by scientific research about attitudes, motivations and human behaviors in situations of conflict. A peace culture is proposed to be built on scientific knowledge from behavioral sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]