Deconstructing violence in acutely exacerbating psychotic patients.

Background: This study examined the proximate causes of psychotic patients' aggression upon the admission to the psychiatric wards of a university and two state hospitals.

Methods: The authors used a semistructured interview to elicit proximate causes of assaults from the assailants and victims. The treating psychiatrists and nurses provided additional information.

Probability and delay discounting of hypothetical sexual outcomes.

The present study used the discounting procedure to characterize choice behaviors regarding hypothetical sexual outcomes. Eighty-six adult undergraduate students completed computerized delay and probability discounting tasks concerning hypothetical money and hypothetical sexual activity. Consistent with other discounting findings, hyperbolic and hyperbola-like decay models described individual and group median indifference point data well.