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Findings from a study that surveyed editors and editorial board members of personality and social psychology journals are reviewed to examine the practice of psychological science in the field of social-personality. Findings demonstrate: (a) although personality and social researchers tend to use many of the same approaches, methods, and procedures, they show average differences in each of these domains, as well as in their overarching theoretical aims and perspectives; (b) the average differences between the two subgroups conform to social and personality researchers' explicit beliefs about the differences; (c) despite the overall methodological and philosophical differences between the two groups, there are few differences in the research topics each subgroup focuses upon, and there are many researchers whose research appears to bridge the two subareas; (d) the structure of social-personality research practices is best characterized as having two independent factors corresponding to Cronbach's (1957) correlationaland experimental “streams of research.”

For criminal justice practitioners, there is limited practical guidance and training to help them recognise the indicators of mental disorder initially and then to understand the causative links between the disorder and the individual's offending behaviour. Practitioners who have developed knowledge and expertise in working with offenders as a generic group frequently do not have the professional expertise to intervene appropriately at the level of the mental disorder. Consequently, they will need to collaborate with others to ensure that both offending and mental health needs (which may be closely linked) are attended to in order to ensure both reduction of risk (of reoffending and harm to others) and relief of symptoms. This chapter focuses on mentally disordered offenders who form a significant group within the offender population. It offers information to help practitioners be confident in their knowledge base and techniques for working across professional boundaries. It also discusses the Care Programme Approach, anti-social personality disorders, and dual diagnosis or co-morbidity. Finally, the chapter offers practical guidance for dealing with the issue of suicide and self harm.

Terrestrial hoofed mammals are ideal animals for examining how social networks can help visualize and quantitatively characterize the many societal variants that ungulates and their close relatives exhibit. The ecological determinants of ungulate social structures are well known, but many of the overarching types, when probed by social network analysis, reveal subtle and important variations on common themes. Network metrics, especially those incorporating temporal elements, help identify key structural features that differentiate societies and are now beginning to provide clues as to their functionality. Structural differences emerge because individuals vary by sex, reproductive state, social personality, and a variety of other phenotypic features. When faced with environmental challenges, no one network structure is best able to solve the range of problems posed by nature, but those that develop are typically ones that facilitate or hinder spreading processes tuned to particular conditions. Remotely gathered #amp;#x2018;big data#amp;#x2019; will continue to reveal important details about network structure, and some of these details are already showing that such societies are complex systems composed of many network types, sometimes layered in hierarchical tiers. As important details about social structure emerge, they will help link function to form and, in so doing, will help reveal ways in which social network analysis can be used to guide health, agricultural, and conservation interventions. Insights from wild equids, elephants, giraffes, and hyraxes, as well as captive and domestic ungulates, are helping to show the way.

According to a popular line of thought, being excluded from interpersonal life is to be exempted from accountability, and vice versa. In ordinary life, this is most often illustrated by the treatment of people with serious psychological disorders. When people are excluded from valuable domains on the basis of their arbitrary characteristics (such as race and sex), they are discriminated against, prevented from receiving the benefits of participation in those domains for morally irrelevant reasons. Exemption from accountability—via exclusion from the interpersonal domain—seems to prevent exempted parties from receiving crucial human goods for morally irrelevant reasons. This chapter discusses two widely deployed ways of trying to ameliorate morally costly disabilities. Both fail to apply viably to various psychopathologies. The solution involves disentangling accountability and interpersonality in a way that also provides insights into our shared human nature.

Lefteris Venizelos's late adolescence is marked by a row between Venizelos and his controlling father, in which the boy develops his social personality by trying to assert his independence. His final year of schooling was passed on Syros, the headmaster Psilakis commending his work and recommending, along with the Greek consul general in Chania, that rather than work in his father's shop he should go to Athens university. Kyriakos Venizelos is persuaded. In between spells at school and university Lefteris works in the glass shop, without enthusiasm. The university, a hub for students from all over the Greek world, furthers his political education, as does an encounter of British politician Joseph Chamberlain with Cretan students. Kostis Mitsotakis, a liberal Cretan lawyer and politician, marries Venizelos's sister Katigo. The death of Kyriakos Venizelos in 1883 precipitates change. Venizelos completes his law studies, sells the glass business, and inherits the spacious house in Halepa that his father had built.