Sentence examples for difference in punishment from inspiring English sources

In England at the common law the difference in punishment between felonies and misdemeanors was very great.

Nor should it make a difference in punishment of the officer.

Or, at the very least, he may persuade counsel that he participated in the fraud only to a sharply limited extent; or that he participated only once when his conduct spanned years (prevarications which, if revealed, would almost certainly make a significant difference in punishment).

Since Calvinist sects and their deviants dominated the American religious ideology for hundreds of years, this could be one reason for the differences in punishment ideologies that trickled into criminal justice systems.

Individual differences in punishment sensitivity are mostly seen as differential responsiveness to fear conditioning (Eron 1997; Lykken 1957).

However, when expected punishment was not implemented, individual differences in punishment sensitivity, specifically in BIS-anxiety, were related to fewer contributions (increased free riding) as compared to the situation when punishment was not implemented.

Since the amygdala plays a role in punishment decision-making (e.g., Treadway et al. 2014), fMRI might be a promising additional measure of individual differences in punishment sensitivity (e.g., Gregory et al. 2015).

The reviewed literature suggests that genetic markers which are specifically related to low and stable levels of serotonin availability (i.e., low levels of synthesis, high levels of reuptake and degradation) might be important genetic markers of these individual differences in punishment sensitivity, specifically in combination with family adversity.

Calhoun said the difference in the punishments was because Price lied to the police about his involvement, and Williams did not.

Individual differences in the punishment sensitivity have been linked to both threat responses (flight, fight, fear system, or the FFFS) and to the response to the uncertainty of punishment (BIS-anxiety).The paper, therefore, examines if individual differences in BIS-anxiety and FFFS can explain some of the variability in free riding in the face of implemented and non-implemented punishment.

A consequence of our decision is that this specific experiment cannot examine any difference in the influence of punishment on cooperation levels between the PD and the IPD since the positive influence of punishment on cooperation has been shown to be especially prevalent after a certain number of rounds in repeated experiments (Gächter et al. 2008).