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    expressive suppression can interfere with memory‚ aspects of discourse and problem solving. This article discuses discusses studies that links expressive suppression‚ which involves concealing outward signs of emotion; with lack of memory‚ communication‚ and problem solving. Studies suggest that a form of reappraisal can help to neutralize emotional impacts‚ leaving cognitive function intact‚ this shows that not all forms of emotion regulations are cognitively costly. Expressive suppression is a common

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    cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression and their effects on risk aversion and decision making. Reappraisal involves reformulating the meaning of the situation. Suppression involves inhibiting the responses and behaviours associated with emotions‚ such as facial expressions‚ vocal tonality or body language. The researchers hypothesized that participants using reappraisal would portray lower risk aversion (increased risk taking) than subjects using suppression. They induced negative emotions of

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    Both authors tend to also have slightly differing views it seems but it is apparent in what they have written that they both coincide on the idea that poor emotion suppression plays its largest role in the social environment. However‚ even though suppression is a main focus for both‚ Carey’s article tends to drift towards seeing suppression in a mostly negative light. The New York Times‚ the source of Carey’s popular press article‚ is more directly aimed toward the

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    prior to the handing over of Hong Kong to China by the UK‚ the Chinese government went and installed its own appointed legislative council and replaced the politically elected legislative council. Another example is within China itself‚ there is suppression against political opposition which shows the persecution and imprisonment of democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Meanwhile‚ in the period of 21st century‚ it has its own new challenges for the established democracies

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    Punishment is a response-dependent environmental change that reduces the future probability of a response (Azrin & Holz‚ 1966). Punishment contingencies are frequent in the natural environment (Skinner‚ 1953); however‚ our understanding of punishment contains substantial gaps‚ and basic research on punishment has declined rapidly over the past 40 years (Baron‚ 1991; Lerman & Vorndran‚ 2002). Furthering the understanding punishment as a process would have not only basic and theoretical implications

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    applied in the state of Texas in 1990s. In the strategy‚ confirmed gang members were isolated in separation wings and/or prison units‚ along with other intransigent inmates who balked at the institutional regime. Through intelligence-gathering and suppression activities appeared to work; the gang-related incidents were few and far between in Texas prisons. By sending gang members to separation units and placing them on lockdown status‚ other inmates could coexist‚ often racially integrated‚ without the

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    be in support of the anti-capital debate. An article that amongst other factors studied the cost of CP found that cost of CP annually is greater than an inmate living out a life sentence without parole. The article named; “Executing the Will of the Voters: A Roadmap to Mend or End the California Legislature ’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Death Penalty Debacle (2011)” In California‚ more than $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978 (about $308 million for each of the 13 executions

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    result‚ religious extremism and racism led to anarchic forms of oppression including socially sanctioned lynching of African-Americans and the validation of the KKK. As the KKK became a surrogate political institution in the South‚ so too did voter suppression‚ restricted access to land ownership‚ and other issues. Sectional reunion “could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage‚” (Blight 3). Resubjugation took the form

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    Same-Sex Marriage and Its Affect on Society April 9‚ 2011 Same-Sex Marriage and Its Affect on Society Gay marriage is a highly controversial topic that has caused violence‚ tears‚ confusion‚ debate‚ and unhappiness‚ and action towards the gay equality movement. The United States stresses how everyone is equal and everyone has the same rights‚ but if that were true‚ why are gays and lesbians not allowed to get married. In the recent years‚ the concept of same-sex marriage has become quite the

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    delinquent behavior‚ and tasked with the responsibility of addressing a growing gang problem‚ I would seek to develop a gang control model based upon the most effective practices. Four options are available to control organized criminal activity: suppression‚ social programs and education‚ as well as the option of taking no action at all. These options will be used to develop responses to particular scenarios that are presented in light of the growing gang problem. A rationale for the chosen action

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