The Arts, Attempt at Cruelty

Measurement of cruelty in children: the Cruelty to Animals Inventory.

Cruelty to animals may be a particularly pernicious aspect of problematic child development. Progress in understanding the development of the problem is limited due to the complex nature of cruelty as a construct, and limitations with current assessment measures. The Children and Animals Inventory (CAI) was developed as a brief self- and parent-report measure of F. R. Ascione's (1993) 9 paramet...

An Attempt at Frankl’s Conjecture

In 1979 Frankl conjectured that in a finite union-closed family F of finite sets, F = {∅} there has to be an element that belongs to at least half of the sets in F . We prove this when | F| 10.

Cruelty in the Old People's Ward

on an eye-witness account of conditions in a geriatric ward, says 'it is a catalogue of cruelty, callousness, filth and depersonalisation'. He believes the aged mental patient is badly in need of a real court of protection.

The "animal rights" movement's cruelty to humans.

Animal cruelty and psychiatric disorders.

Animal cruelty in childhood, although generally viewed as abnormal or deviant, for years was not considered symptomatic of any particular psychiatric disorder. Although animal cruelty is currently used as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorder, research establishing the diagnostic significance of this behavior is essentially nonexistent. In the current study, investigators tested the hypot...