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PSYCHOPATHY AND CULPABILITY: HOW RESPONSIBLE IS THE PSYCHOPATH FOR CRIMINAL WRONGDOING?, Law and Social Inquiry (2011)

Recent research into the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy has raised the question of...

 

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Does Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) Mediate the Relation between Hostile Attributional Style and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence?, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2010)

The role of hostile attributional style (HAS) in antisocial development has been well-documented. We analyzed...

 

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In Self-Defense Regarding Self-Defense: A Rejoinder to Professor Corrado, American Criminal Law Review (2010)

This is a rejoinder to Professor Corrado in the upcoming special section of the American...

 

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New Developments in Developmental Research on Social Information Processing and Antisocial Behavior, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2010)

The Special Section on developmental research on social information processing (SIP) and antisocial behavior is...

 

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Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)

For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...

 

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An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)

Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...

 

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Development of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence (with Chongming Yang, Kenneth A. Dodge, Gregory S. Pettit, and John E. Bates), Developmental Psychology (2009)

Using longitudinal data on 585 youths (48% female; 17% African American, 2% other ethnic minority),...

 

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Loneliness as a partial mediator of the relation between low social preference in childhood and anxious/depressed symptoms in adolescence (with Chongming Yang, Virginia Salzer Burks, Kenneth A. Dodge, Joseph M. Price, Gregory S. Pettit, and John E. Bates), Development and Psychopathology (2009)

This study examined the mediating role of loneliness (assessed by self-report at Time 2; Grade...

 

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On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)

A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...

 

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The wrongfulness of wrongly interpreting wrongfulness: Provocation interpretational bias and heat of passion homicide, New Criminal Law Review (2009)

In U.S. criminal law, a defendant charged with murder can invoke the heat of passion...

 

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Testing an individual systems model of response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial behavior across adolescence (with Chongming Yang, Kenneth A. Dodge, John E. Bates, and Gregory S. Pettit), Child Development (2008)

This study examined the bidirectional development of aggressive response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial...

 

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On-line social decision making and antisocial behavior: Some essential but neglected issues, Clinical Psychology Review (2008)

The last quarter century has witnessed considerable progress in the scientific study of social information...

 

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On-line social decision making and antisocial behavior: Some essential but neglected issues, Clinical Psychology Review (2008)

The last quarter century has witnessed considerable progress in the scientific study of social information...

 

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Reactive Cognition, Reactive Emotion: Toward a More Psychologically-Informed Understanding of Reactive Homicide, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2008)

Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the alternative contributions of dysfunctional reactive cognition (e.g., provocation...

 

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Social Information Processing and Cardiac Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior, Journal of Abnormal Psychology (2008)

The relations among social information processing (SIP), cardiac activity, and antisocial behavior were investigated in...

 

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Social information processing, subtypes of violence, and a progressive construction of culpability and punishment in juvenile justice, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (2008)

Consistent with core principles of liberal theories of punishment (including humane treatment of offenders, respecting...

 

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Testing an Individual Systems Model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior Across Adolescence, Child Development (2008)

This study examined the bidirectional development of aggressive response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial...

 

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The Wrongfulness of Wrongly Interpreting Wrongfulness: Provocation Interpretational Bias and Heat of Passion Homicide, New Criminal Law Review (2008)

In United States criminal law, a defendant charged with murder can invoke the heat of...

 

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Disentangling the Psychology and Law of Instrumental and Reactive Subtypes of Aggression, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2007)

Behavioral scientists have distinguished an instrumental (or proactive) style of aggression from a style that...

 

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Disentangling the Psychology and Law of Instrumental and Reactive Subtypes of Aggression, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2007)

Behavioral scientists have distinguished an instrumental (or proactive) style of aggression from a style that...

 

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Toward a conceptual framework of instrumental antisocial decision-making and behavior in youth, Clinical Psychology Review (2007)

This paper reviews and organizes relevant theory and research toward a conceptual framework of instrumental...

 

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Applying systems principles to models of social information processing and aggressive behavior in youth, Aggression and Violent Behavior (2006)

Systems perspectives view development as the product of hierarchically-organized levels of varied life processes that...

 

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Evaluative behavioral judgments and instrumental antisocial behaviors in children and adolescents, Clinical Psychology Review (2006)

There is a growing body of scientific research that has drawn a distinction between instrumental...

 

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Real-time decision making and aggressive behavior in youth: A heuristic model of response evaluation and decision (RED) (with Kenneth A. Dodge), Aggressive Behavior (2006)

Considerable scientific and intervention attention has been paid to judgment and decision-making systems associated with...

 

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Peer rejection and social information-processing factors in the development of aggressive behavior problems in children (with Kenneth A. Dodge, Jennifer E. Lansford, Virginia Salzer Burks, John E. Bates, Gregory S. Pettit, and Joseph M. Price), Child Development (2003)

The relation between social rejection and growth in antisocial behavior was investigated. In Study 1,259...

 

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Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents (with Virginia Salzer Burks and Kenneth A. Dodge), Development and Psychopathology (2002)

Externalizing behavior problems of 124 adolescents were assessed across Grades 7–11. In Grade 9, participants...

 

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Social information processing and aggressive behavior: A transactional perspective (with Kenneth A. Dodge), The transactional model of development: How children and contexts shape each other (2009)

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