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33The Role of Empathy in Alcohol Use of Bullying Perpetrators and Victims: Lower Personal Empathic Distress Makes Male Perpetrators of Bullying More Vulnerable to Alcohol UseInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (13): 6286. 2023.Bullying often results in negative coping in victims, including an increased consumption of alcohol. Recently, however, an increase in alcohol use has also been reported among perpetrators of bullying. The factors triggering this pattern are still unclear. We investigated the role of empathy in the interaction between bullying and alcohol use in an adolescent sample (IMAGEN) at age 13.97 (±0.53) years (baseline (BL), N = 2165, 50.9% female) and age 16.51 (±0.61) years (follow-up 1 (FU1), N = 118…Read more
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5Granting Amnesty for Peace: Assessing the Possibility of a Just Peace in Kant’s Doctrine of RightRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 75 (1): 51-84. 2019.Kant’s ‘principle of right’ claims that individual freedom can only be realized through the construction of law. As “punishment is a categorical imperative” failure to punish those who violate public laws constitutes a grave wrong. Yet, in the ‘right of nations’ Kant claims that amnesties must be granted when wrongdoing occurs between states. How can it be that within a civil society amnesty should not be granted but that among nations it should be? There has been little attempt to reconcile Kan…Read more
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1Wild in Woods: The Myth of the Noble Eco-savageCoronet Books. 1999.Ever since the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, the noble savage has been a potent symbol in Western cultures. The notion that there is a land where men and women live in simplicity and innocence has been used to draw unfavourable comparisons with advanced societies. The noble savage has been conscripted by many causes, from the French Revolution to the sexual revolution, but in his most recent incarnation he is the champion of conservation. The native peoples of the earth, ac…Read more
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29The costs and benefits of prosecution: a contractualist justification of amnestyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (7): 859-881. 2022.For states attempting to bring internal conflicts to an end prudence dictates favouring only those practices that are most likely to promote domestic stability. Typically, this requires employing a...
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33The interaction of child abuse and rs1360780 of the FKBP5 gene is associated with amygdala resting-state functional connectivity in young adultsHuman Brain Mapping 42 (10): 3269-3281. 2021.Extensive research has demonstrated that rs1360780, a common single nucleotide polymorphism within the FKBP5 gene, interacts with early-life stress in predicting psychopathology. Previous results suggest that carriers of the TT genotype of rs1360780 who were exposed to child abuse show differences in structure and functional activation of emotion-processing brain areas belonging to the salience network. Extending these findings on intermediate phenotypes of psychopathology, we examined if the in…Read more
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30Realizing Freedom as Non-domination: Political Obligation in Kant’s Doctrine of RightRes Publica 28 (1): 85-101. 2021.Prominent Kantian scholars, such as Korsgaard and Waldron, claim that the very existence of juridical-political institutions is sufficient to render laws authoritative. Critics argue that this view is unpersuasive as it requires subjects to obey grossly unjust laws. Here, I identify two problems facing scholars who reject the absolutist view of political authority proffered by Korsgaard and Waldron. First, when there is reasonable disagreement regarding a law’s legitimacy the Principle of Right …Read more
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