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ERIC Number: EJ500926
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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Suicide Risk: Amplifiers and Attenuators.
Plutchik, Robert; Van Praag, Herman M.
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, v21 n3-4 p173-86 1994
Attempts to integrate findings on correlates of suicide and violent risk in terms of a theory called a two-stage model of countervailing forces, which assumes that the strength of aggressive impulses is modified by amplifiers and attenuators. The vectorial interaction of amplifiers and attenuators creates an unstable equilibrium making prediction of suicide and violence extremely difficult. (JPS)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Response, Higher Education, Neuropsychology, Suicide, Violence
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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