Self-punitive behavior: One way to stop it

Personality Correlates of Self-Punitive Behavior

The purpose of this investigation was to identify individual difference variables that were predictive of self-punitive behavior in a laboratory task. Female college students completed four personality inventories and then were given regularextinction (RE) or punished-extinction (PE) conditions in a self-punitive behavior paradigm. Self-punitive behavior was obtained; the PE subjects were more ...

Is it time to stop teaching breast self-examination?

Self-punitive Behavior in the Rat: Facilitative Effects of Punishment on Resistance to Extinction.

In 2 experiments rats were trained to escape from an electrified start box and runway into a safe goal box. During subsequent "extinction" trials the start box was made safe for all Ss, but some groups could not reach the safe goal box without enduring shock in part or all of the alley. Ss shocked in this way in the 1st study failed to stop running sooner than those given no shock, and in the 2...

Self-management programs: one way to promote healthy aging.

The United States population is aging rapidly. In 2007, about 38 million people in America were aged 65 and older, about 13% of the population. That number is expected to nearly double by 2030 to an estimated 71.5 million Americans.1 Unfortunately, chronic illnesses often accompany the aging process. In 2002, the top three causes of death for U.S. adults aged 65 or older were heart disease (32%...

One-Way Permutations and Self-Witnessing Languages

A desirable property of one-way functions is that they be total, one-to-one, and onto—in other words, that they be permutations. We prove that one-way permutations exist exactly if PaUP-coUP: This provides the first characterization of the existence of one-way permutations based on a complexity-class separation and shows that their existence is equivalent to a number of previously studied compl...