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37 Neuroscientific Threaths to Free Will
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In this chapter, I review recent work on neuroscientifi c threats to free will. What is it for something to threaten free will? Consider, fi rst, an apparent threat. You are walking in the dark, and a shadow looms in the distance. It certainly appears threatening, but you are no…
"How does a state determine if another state is an important military or economic threat? The issue of threat perception drives a wide variety of behaviors, from alliance formation and defense spending to trade relations and regime membership. Although liberal theorists and real…
Economic inequality is associated with a host of social ills, and it harms the majority of those within an unequal society. In the U.S., however, the existence and persistence of racial inequality privileges White Americans as a group. I argue that White Americans are thus motiv…
The vascular flora described here covers ~2,295 km2 (~886 mi2) of the Selkirk mountains that lie in the Idaho Panhandle, covering an elevational range from 540–2330 m (1,770–7,670 ft.). The majority of the mountain range is underlain by granitic rock of the Kaniksu Batholith, an…
The application of big data analytics on data and any information collected, enables mobile operators to profile customers, depending on the historical and real time habits at certain locations and times. The results generated of big data analytics and carried by mobile operator…
Colleges’ and universities’ prominent, high-risk nature places them among the most at-risk targets for cyberattacks worldwide. While effective solutions exist to detect suspicious activities and block them promptly, cyberattacks continue to increase. This study addresses cyberat…
The European Union has been the primary promoter of democracy and rule of law to its neighbors to the east. Much of the early scholarship as well as official documents on the EU’s transfer of norms to the east have shown some degree of optimism and expectation of serious reforms…
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD) are often chronic and debilitating conditions that can cause significant impairment in an individual’s personal, professional, and social life. However, research pertaining to posttraumatic stress responses among olde…
In the hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush and his top aides frantically sought to prevent what was widely expected to be a wave of terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests around the world. Recognizing that the principles of deterr…
This research examines the threat perceptions and different responses of states in dealing with common threats perceptions. Balancing strategies such as armament and alliance with other states are mainly the consequence of threats or perceived threats in states’ internal and ext…
Nothing to See Here: Stages for Latent Revolutions. In Genesis 2:7 (19822), God instructs Adam and Eve: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 1982:2). The Bible later st…
Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) has afflicted all of Israel's different communities–secular and orthodox Jews, Arabs, and other minorities living there. A large-scale study found that 17.7% of Jewish girls and boys (6th, 8th and 10th grade students -age range 12-17) in secular and reli…
This study focuses on the issue of information security policy for e-government in Saudi Arabia. It evaluates the three fundamental pillars that determine data security such as effectiveness, vulnerabilities, and threats. The paper is seeking to reveal the risks of information s…
This research explored the cognitive processes underlying the Response Amplification Effect (RAE), which is ambivalent people's tendency to judge the object of their ambivalence (typically, a stigmatized other) more extremely than a comparable control target. Being in a state of…
Novel aspects of the security environment make necessary a radical change in the paradigm employed by the US national security elite in formulating national security policies. All policy is grounded on theory, and theory is predicated by its paradigm. Failure by policymakers to …
"The field of threat assessment and the research surrounding it have exploded since the first edition of Threat Assessment and Management Strategies: Identifying the Howlers and Hunters. To reflect those changes, this second edition contains more than 100 new pages of material, …