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Medico-Legal Journal, 2014 Psychopathy is a condition that has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches are devoted to murderers with psychopathic features and movies such as No Country for Old Men and We Need to Talk About Kevin focus on characters who are exceptionally cold and callous. Psychopathy is in fact a personality disorder characterised by lack of
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study examined the associations between psychopathy dimensions (triarchic phenotypes and classical factors), empathy domains (cognitive and affective), and interoception (interoceptive attention and accuracy) while accounting for the putative role ...
Carlos Campos +4 more
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Dangerously Intelligent: A Call for Re-Evaluating Psychopathy Using Perceptions of Intelligence
Journal of Intelligence, 2023 Background: Primary psychopathy (i.e., unemotional and callous predisposition) is associated with career, educational, and general life success, whereas secondary psychopathy (i.e., impulsivity and risk-taking) relates to criminality, hedonistic ...
Sergio A. Silverio +2 more
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Clinical Impact of Psychopathy on Bipolar Disorder
Medicina, 2021 Background and Objectives. Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with a significant burden due to affective symptoms and behavioral manifestations, but also cognitive and functional impairment.
Giuseppina Calabrò +8 more
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Is it good to be bad? An evolutionary analysis of the adaptive potential of psychopathic traits
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Although psychopathy is widely conceptualised as a mental disorder, some researchers question the maladaptive nature of psychopathy, and argue that it might be advantageous from an evolutionary point of view.
Ioana Ene +2 more
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2014 ABSTRACTBackgroundIn popular culture, Mafia members are often portrayed as ruthless, callous and remorseless, but there is no empirical research on their personality traits.AimsThe goal of this research was to examine levels of psychopathic traits among Mafia members who have been convicted of a criminal offence.MethodsThe Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised
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Consideration of future consequences (CFC) serves as a buffer against aggression related to psychopathy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Psychopathy is the most notorious trait in the Dark Triad, and it is strongly linked to many kinds of aggressive behaviors. However, not every individual who is characterized by psychopathy engages in aggression, which suggests that certain factors may ...
Yongping Zhao +3 more
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Impact of Psychopathy on Moral Judgments about Causing Fear and Physical Harm. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Psychopathy is a personality variable associated with persistent immoral behaviors. Despite this, attempts to link moral reasoning deficits to psychopathic traits have yielded mixed results with many findings supporting intact moral reasoning in ...
Elise M Cardinale, Abigail A Marsh
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Identifying distinct profiles of impulsivity for the four facets of psychopathy.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Psychopathy comprises antagonistic personality traits and antisocial behaviors that are associated with critical outcomes for the individual and society (e.g., violent behavior).
Samuel J West +6 more
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Psychopathy and Mortality [PDF]
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2017 AbstractIt is not known how mortality differs between psychopathic and nonpsychopathic individuals. We linked data from subjects having been in forensic mental examinations at Niuvanniemi Hospital during 1984–1993 to the data from the National Death Registry to estimate the association between psychopathy and mortality.
Tiihonen Jari +4 more
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