Human Mate Poaching

Abstract

Mate poaching refers to efforts to attract people who are already involved in committed relationships. The current dyadic, 5-week prospective study examined mate poaching behaviors in the context of opposite-sex friendships. Actors’ mate poaching behaviors predicted decreases in their friend’s commitment to their romantic partners, increases in their friend’s perceptions of actors’ mate value, and increases in their friend’s romantic desire for actors over time. These results are the first to suggest an interpersonal process in which mate poaching behaviors elicit psychological changes in targets that facilitate actors’ mate poaching goals. Furthermore, these results are the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of mate poaching tactics in friendships.

Additional Resource: Human Mate Poaching Tactics Are Effective: Evidence From a Dyadic Prospective Study on Opposite-Sex “Friendships”

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Legal Strangers and the Duty of Support: Beyond the Biological Tie – But How Far Beyond the Marital Tie?

In 1998, Paula Johnson and Carlton Conley discovered that the child they thought was their biological daughter was not biologically related to them.' This child, Callie Marie Conley, had been switched within days of her birth with their own biological daughter at the hospital where both girls were born.' The discovery of the mistaken identities occurred only after Ms. Johnson had initiated a hearing for a formal child support order. Callie had been born while Johnson and Conley were living together as unmarried cohabitants. After they discontinued this living arrangement, Mr. Conley voluntarily paid child support. When they disagreed about the amount that he should be paying, Ms. Johnson initiated the hearing for court-ordered support." As a stalling tactic to delay the hearing, and which he admitted was such, Mr. Conley disputed for the first time that Callie was not his biological child. Paternity and maternity tests eventually proved that neither he nor Ms. Johnson was Callie's biological parent. They eventually learned their biological daughter's...

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The IUD Rumor Mill: Common Misconceptions

Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), which includes both subcutaneous implants and intrauterine devices (IUDs), is the most effective form of contraception. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants who are knowledgeable about IUDs and can anticipate the concerns of patients and other providers are well-positioned to increase IUD use. This may help decrease the number of unplanned pregnancies in the United States.

Around the world, rates of IUD usage are high; for instance, rates in Uzbekistan are 50%, in Vietnam 31%, in China 41%, in Egypt 36%, and in Finland 23%.1 However, in the United States, only 5.2% of women of reproductive age use IUDs.1 This is despite the fact that methods of LARC are the most effective form of birth control aside from abstinence and have an efficacy rate of more than 99%.2 Like vasectomy and female sterilization, methods of LARC are rated Tier 1, the most effective form of contraception, by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.3

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Superbike Motorsports Quadruple Murder

A 32-year-old man who served 14 years in prison for a violent crime in Arizona paid $9,000 for a 2003 Suzuki GSX-R750 at Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee on April 16, 2003. He reported the blue-and-white motorcycle with a black stripe stolen 13 days later and told neighbors that he suspected the bike shop was involved. Less than seven months later on the afternoon of Nov. 6, 2003, he shot and killed four people at the shop, according to his confession and guilty pleas that have left him serving seven consecutive life sentences plus 60 years. He was documented to be among Superbike customers, but was never interviewed or questioned in connection to the case until he had killed three others nearly 13 years later. His name is Todd Kohlhepp. Kohlhepp, now 46, is the registered sex offender and former real-estate agent who was arrested Nov. 3, 2016, as the Anderson police and Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office were investigating a missing-persons case.

Additional Resource: Todd Kohlhepp and Superbike: Doubts, no doubt, how and why

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Analysis of Blast Loads on Buildings

Analytic techniques and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software programs are currently in use for assessing the blast loads on military structures for a variety of situations. These approaches, of necessity, are now being extended to the calculation of explosion-structure interaction problems where the loadings are not upon hardened military targets but rather on civilian structures. This has become of great importance as high explosive bomb attacks have been increasingly directed against many commercial, financial and civic centers consisting of buildings of conventional, "soft" construction. One aspect in the protection of such structures is the accurate prediction of the blast loadings on structural components using analytic or advanced numerical tools taking into account the complexity of the building, its geometry and the surrounding environment. Such an understanding of the loads can help define building protection options such as selection of materials, relocation of building services, siting, and construction techniques. Various different numerical and analytic techniques are discussed and illustrated by example...

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School Based Mental Health

Definition of School-Based Mental Health
The term “school-based mental health” has become a commonly used phrase much like the phrase “community-based mental health services” or “less restrictive environment.” These terms appear to have a common meaning among the professionals that use them without any further specification needed. However, as concepts evolve from rhetoric to actual implementation, definitions and clarity of the parameters of the concept become more important. This was the case with the term “community-based,” as advocates pressed for mental health services for children to become less restrictive (e.g., non-hospital based) and move to community-based services. However, it was soon realized that some hospital-based services could also be community-based and the concept of “community-based” was refined to include any necessary resource that could involve the family and was the least restrictive environment available to address the needs of the child. The term “school-based mental health services” now needs a clearer conceptual framework. The term has generally come to be understood as any...

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Finders Cult of Washington, D.C.,

AMERICAN EMPIRE EXPOSED

Little is known or been written about an enormously significant event that took place just over three decades ago involving a bizarre cult called the Finders. This presentation will examine all available documented evidence that includes recent, never before released public records from the police and US Customs investigations.[1] Other than a couple conspicuous mainstream media articles from February 1987 and a final follow-up in 1994, the critical importance of this “mysterious” group sometimes called “Finders Keepers” and its operation have largely been lost to the public. Despite the name – Finders Keepers – denoting procurers or finders of children kept as pedophile slaves, the CIA front that trafficked children for the elite has by careful design remained an obscure, strange footnote in history. But this gross omission conveniently disregards the compelling evidence acting as tangible proof that the Finders was a CIA front organization caught in the act of abducting and moving very young children across both US state lines...

Additional Resource: The “finders” Cult: A Cia Front Caught Red-handed In 1987 Trafficking Child Sex Slaves In Global Operation

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The Influence of Afrocentric Facial Features in Criminal Sentencing

ABSTRACT

Prior research has shown that within a racial category, people with more Afrocentric facial features are presumed more likely to have traits that are stereotypic of Black Americans compared with people with less Afrocentric features. The present study investigated whether this form of feature based stereotyping might be observed in criminal-sentencing decisions. Analysis of a random sample of inmate records showed that Black and White inmates, given equivalent criminal histories, received roughly equivalent sentences. However, within each race, inmates with more Afrocentric features received harsher sentences than those with less Afrocentric features. These results are consistent with laboratory findings, and they suggest that although racial stereotyping as a function of racial category has been successfully removed from sentencing decisions, racial stereotyping based on the facial features of the offender is a form of bias that is largely overlooked. Stereotypes are commonly defined as widely shared beliefs about the attributes of social groups (Fiske, 1998; Judd & Park, 1993). As such, they are assumed to influence...

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British Psychiatry: From Eugenics to Assassination

A behavior control research project was begun in the 1950s , coordinated by the British psychological warfare unit called the Tavist J!Ck Institute, with the Scottish Rite Masons , the Central Intelligence Agency, and the British, U. S., Canadian, and United Nations agencies. The project became famous in the 1970s under a CIA code name, "MK-Ultra." Its notoriety for brain washing by drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, and other tortures caused many books tb be written about the project, and the U. S. Senate conducted hearings which exposed many of its abusive features. President Gerald Ford appointed a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, to correct the CIA's misconduct. There was a widespread anti-establishment view at the time, that here was e fox appointed to guard the hen house. The intelligence agencies offered a public rationale for the project: the need to counteract and compete with the mind-control capabilities of the communists. This was largely based on the fact that U.S....

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Adventures With an Ice Pick

AMERICA, 1847: a highly competent and, by all accounts, pleasant manual labourer of Irish extraction named Phineas Gage is involved in rock-blasting operations in mountainous terrain. In the course of one sadly uncontrolled explosion, an iron bar is picked up by the force of the blast and driven clean through the front part of his head. Phineas is sent flying, but, to everybody's surprise, he survives the removal of the protruding bar. As he recovers, however, it is observed that his personality has dramatically changed, though his memory and intelligence remain apparently unaffected. In 1868, a physician named Harlow from Boston writes about him: "His equilibrium, or balance, so to speak, between his intellectual faculties and animal propensities seems to have been destroyed. He is fitful, irreverent, indulging in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires." The now extremely rude Phineas Gage is an...

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A Primer On Hypnosis And Mind Control

The purpose of this paper is to provide some primary research tools for the layman to explore the many myths about hypnosis (is hypnotic mind control feasible -- absolutely!) and where, in the scientific literature, can I go to find out about it. Some months ago I stumbled across a transcription of a talk given by D. C. Hammond at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality, June 25,1992. If you are unfamiliar with mind control or have not heard of this speech, also known as the Greenbaum Speech, stop now and read it. It is very frightening in its implications. On October 30, 1993 I had the opportunity to observe, what amounted to, a stage demonstration of a UFO abduction regression. My domestic partner was the "volunteer from the audience" who was placed under hypnosis as part of this demonstration. I was sitting in about the fifth row and was observing the proceedings intensely. I walked away from that with significantly...

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Homicide Studies: Ten Years After Its Inception

The Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG) is an international and interdisciplinaryorganization of volunteers dedicated to cooperation among researchers and practitioners who are trying to understand and limit lethal violence. The HRWG has the following goals:

  •  to forge links between research, epidemiology and practical programs to reduce levels of
    mortality from violence;
  •  to promote improved data quality and the linking of diverse homicide data sources;
  •  to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research on lethal and non-lethal violence;
  •  to encourage more efficient sharing of techniques for measuring and analyzing homicide;
  • to create and maintain a communication network among those collecting, maintaining and analyzing homicide data sets; and  to generate a stronger working relationship among homicide researchers.
Homicide Research Working Group publications, which include the Proceedings of each annual Intensive Workshop (beginning in 1992), the HRWG Newsletter, and the contents of issues of the journal Homicide Studies (beginning in 1997), may be downloaded from the HRWG web site, which is maintained by the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research, at the foll

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Structural Factors And Black Interracial Homicide: A New Examination of The Casual Process

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This study evaluates the assumption that deprivation among African Americans and racial inequality lead to black interracial homicide due to racial conflict and antagonism. Using refined race‐adjusted Supplemental Homicide Report data, Uniform Crime Report data and census data, we test an alternative hypothesis that draws on the macrostructural opportunity theory to assess and more accurately specify the relationship between structural characteristics and black interracial homicide. We find that first, the relationship between economic factors and black interracial homicide can be explained in large part by high rates of financially motivated crime such as robbery, and second, that economic factors are associated with financially motivated but not expressive black interracial killings. Analyses of black intraracial killings are performed for comparison purposes. Collectively, the findings suggest that conflict‐based explanations rooted in racial antagonism and frustration aggression may be premature.

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