This paper examines whether foetal testosterone exposure predicts the extent of confidence and over-confidence in own absolute ability in adulthood. To study this question, we elicited incentive-compatible measures of confidence and over-confidence in the lab and correlate them with measures of right hand 2D:4D, used as as a marker for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure. We provide ...

Skinner (1938) once defined behavior as a proper subset of organismic activities—those that involve commerce with the outside world. Here I reexamine and reformulate Skinner’s definition to make the underlying conceptual framework more explicit. This framework turns out to be partly morphological and to rely on biological concepts of organism and adaptation. I propose a reformulation of Skinner...

ABSTRACT Staff beliefs toward patient self-harm in secure forensic services are explored, capturing nurses and other clinical staff from four units one National Health Service trust, comprising high through low learning disability. One hundred fifty-five respondents took part (overall completion rate: 61%). The Theory-Driven Measure of Self-Injurious Behavior the Suicide Competency Assessment F...

The aim of the present study was to detect both sociodemographic factors related to possible Internet addiction and the prevalence of this addiction, as well as to determine the relationship between possible Internet addiction and self-injurious behavior, life satisfaction, and the level of loneliness in adolescents attending high school in the city center of Isparta. A cross-sectional analytic...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an adventure camp program on the selfconcept of adolescents with behavioral problems. Subjects in the study included 61 randomly selected male and female adolescents with behavioral problems ranging in age from 9 to 17 years. The treatment group of 31 adolescents was randomly selected from a population (n=85) of behavioral problem adolesce...

SELF-CONFIDENCE OF PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN IN POSTPARTUM PERIOD: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL Fahimeh Sehati Shafaie, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Marzieh Bagherinia. Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Midwifery Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Midwifery Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sc...

Although it is expected that a social dilemma is solved by giving people feedback information about others' cooperative behavior, previous studies demonstrated that the information may promote cooperative behavior in some situations but may promote non-cooperative behavior in other situations. The study hypothesize that the feedback information of the others' cooperative behavior promote cooper...