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  2. Lists of people by cause of death - Wikipedia

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    List of executions in Japan; List of people executed in Mexico; List of people executed in Romania; List of hazing deaths in the United States; List of horse accidents (deaths and serious injuries) List of inventors killed by their own inventions; Lists of murders. Murdered sex workers in the United Kingdom; List of murdered musicians. List of ...

  3. Motivation crowding theory - Wikipedia

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    Motivation crowding theory is the theory from psychology and microeconomics suggesting that providing extrinsic incentives for certain kinds of behavior—such as promising monetary rewards for accomplishing some task—can sometimes undermine intrinsic motivation for performing that behavior.

  4. Perverse incentive - Wikipedia

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    A well-known example in social choice is perverse response, [6] where a candidate can lose an election if the voters rank them higher. This occurs under single transferable vote and related systems (like primary elections and the two-round system ).

  5. Reward system - Wikipedia

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    The reward system (the mesocorticolimbic circuit) is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., "wanting"; desire or craving for a reward and motivation), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positively-valenced emotions, particularly ones involving pleasure as a core component (e.g., joy, euphoria and ecstasy).

  6. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “You got all these people with this disease who need treatment,” he said. “There’s a medication that could really help us tackle this problem, help us dramatically reduce overdose death, and people are having a hard time accessing it.” The anti-medication approach adopted by the U.S. sets it apart from the rest of the developed world.

  7. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    A list of 'effects' that have been noticed in the field of psychology. [clarification needed] Ambiguity effect;

  8. Motivational salience - Wikipedia

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    Incentive salience is a cognitive process that grants a "desire" or "want" attribute, which includes a motivational component to a rewarding stimulus. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 9 ] Reward is the attractive and motivational property of a stimulus that induces appetitive behavior – also known as approach behavior – and consummatory behavior. [ 3 ]

  9. Identifiable victim effect - Wikipedia

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    The identifiable victim effect is a special case of a more general phenomenon: people respond to stories more readily than to facts. Kubin et al [34] found that people have more respect for their political opponents' opinions when their opponents support their opinions with personal experiences rather than facts. In keeping with the literature ...