The Use of Focused Deterrence to Address the Problems of Guns

question 26

True/False

The use of focused deterrence to address the problems of guns and youth is promising.

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Definitions:

Spotlight Effect

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which our actions and appearance are noticed and evaluated by others.

Negative-emotion Words

Words that convey or evoke feelings of sadness, anger, fear, or other negative emotional states, often analyzed in psychological studies of emotion and language.

Big Five

represents a model outlining five broad dimensions of personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, used to describe human personality.

Neuroticism

An attribute of someone's personality distinguished by their tendency towards fluctuating emotions, nervousness, a moody disposition, anxiety, and feelings of gloom.