Besides fight and flight responses, animals and humans may respond to threat with freezing, a response characterized by bradycardia and physical immobility. Risk assessment is proposed to be enhanced during freezing to promote optimal decision making. Indeed, healthy participants showed freezing-like responses to threat cues. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients are characterized by hypervigilance and increased threat responsiveness.

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country.
Georgi, a Russian refugee who came to Sweden with his family when he was five years old, could talk at length about the virtues of the Volvo. His doctor described him as “the most ‘Swedeified’ in his family.” He was also one of the most popular boys in his class. For his thirteenth birthday, two friends listed some of the qualities that he evoked: energetic, fun, happy all the time, good human being, amazingly kind, awesome at soccer, sly.

In a series of meta-analyses with the second generation of Holocaust survivors, no evidence for secondary traumatization was found (Van IJzendoorn, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & Sagi-Schwartz, 2003 With regard to third generation traumatization, various reports suggest the presence of intergenerational transmission of trauma. Some scholars argue that intergenerational transmission of trauma might skip a generation.

Good sleep is important for our emotional stability and aggression control. Although most people do not become violent after a period of poor sleep, this may be different for certain vulnerable individuals. Forensic psychiatric patients may represent a group of such individuals. We studied patients who committed a crime, often violent in nature, but are not completely held accountable for this due to a mental disorder. They usually get sentenced by the court to follow treatment.

Ieder kind heeft het wel eens ‘oorlogje’ gespeeld, thuis of in het bos met speelgoed geweren die zijn gewonnen op de kermis. Maar voor kindsoldaten is het geen spel, zij kunnen niet zomaar stoppen en zich terugtrekken in hun warme bedje. Het onderwerp van ons profielwerkstuk luidt daarom ook ‘kindsoldaten’. In het proces van het zoeken naar een onderwerp, zijn bij ons diverse onderwerpen aan bod gekomen. Uiteindelijk hebben wij gekozen voor kindsoldaten. Wij hebben hiervoor gekozen omdat wij geïnteresseerd raakten in de problematiek rondom kindsoldaten.

Bijna de helft (46 procent) van de mensen met een depressie rookt, 1,5 keer zoveel als in de algemene bevolking. Mensen met een depressie leven gemiddeld 7-11 jaar korter dan mensen zonder een depressie. Geschat wordt dat de helft van deze verhoogde sterfte is toe te schrijven aan de gevolgen van roken. In de factsheet Roken en depressie zijn mogelijke verklaringen en de feiten plus kansen rondom stoppen met roken en een depressie gebundeld.

The social mechanisms in ideological groups work to promote a cohesive social unit and present significant barriers to disengaging. Nonetheless, involvement in these groups is often not a lifelong commitment and many members do leave. The aim of this study was to explore the personal experience of the exiting process from a diverse range of ideological groups, and to construct a theory of disengagement, through 27 in-depth interviews with former members of 1% motorcycle clubs, military special operations forces, cults, white supremacists and fundamental religious or political groups.

Zelf heb je het goed, maar met de wereld gaat het slecht. Menig aanslag komt voort uit schuldgevoel, ontdekte terrorisme-expert Teun van Dongen.

Scholars have long held that terrorist attacks have a noticeable effect on citizens’ emotions such as anxiety and fear. Consequently, it is not surprising that researchers have discovered that terrorism influences vote choice in individual nation states as well as impacts voter turnout cross-nationally.

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