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The Horus Heresy is a series of science fantasy novels set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop.Penned by several authors, the series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the main setting of Warhammer 40,000.
Self-control occurs through top-down inhibition of the premotor cortex, [50] which essentially means using perception and mental effort to reign in behavior and action as opposed to allowing emotions or sensory experience to control and drive behavior. There is some debate about the mechanism of self-control and how it emerges.
The self-control theory of crime, often referred to as the general theory of crime, is a criminological theory about the lack of individual self-control as the main factor behind criminal behavior. The self-control theory of crime suggests that individuals who were ineffectually parented before the age of ten develop less self-control than ...
Self-control therapy is a behavioral treatment method based on a self-control model of depression, [1] [2] that was modeled after Frederick Kanfer's behavioral (1971) model of self-control. [ 3 ] Self-control model of depression
External self-justification refers to the use of external excuses to justify one's actions. The excuses can be a displacement of personal responsibility, lack of self-control or social pressures. External self-justification aims to diminish one's responsibility for a behavior and is usually elicited by moral dissonance. For example, the smoker ...
If an individual has low mental activity, self control is typically impaired, which may lead to ego depletion. Self control plays a valuable role in the functioning of self in people. The illusion of control involves the overestimation of an individual's ability to control certain events. It occurs when someone feels a sense of control over ...
Horus Heresy may refer to: The Horus Heresy, a Warhammer 40,000 novel series; Horus Heresy (1993 board game), a Warhammer 40,000 board game; Horus Heresy (2010 board ...
The self-fulfilling prophecy is essentially the idea that beliefs and expectations can and do create their own reality. Sociologist Robert K. Merton defined a self-fulfilling prophecy as, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.