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The role of affect and cognitive schemata in the assessment of psychopathy [PDF]
This thesis examined psychopathy, cognitive schemata and affect in forensic and community populations. This was to identify whether cognitive schemata and affect would assist in the assessment of psychopathy.
Wilks-Riley, Fiona R
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The Limits of Emotion in Moral Judgment [PDF]
I argue that our best science supports the rationalist idea that, independent of reasoning, emotions aren’t integral to moral judgment. There’s ample evidence that ordinary moral cognition often involves conscious and unconscious reasoning about an ...
May, Joshua
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PSYCHOPATHY is a disorder characterised by callousness, shallow affect, lack of guilt, antisocial behaviour and impulsivity. Since the early characterisation of the disorder, psychopathy has intrigued medical professionals and the general public alike.
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Adaptive Psychopathy: The Quarantine Vector and Psychopathy Induction
Defined within evolutionary psychology, the tenets of the State Psychopathy and Directional Vector hypotheses of psychopathy theory (Bates et al.), were tested in an experimental induction designed to rouse survival threat. Territorial incursion, eliciting survival threat, within the Directional Vector hypothesis posits that psychopathic affect is ...
Roslyn Galligan+2 more
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Imaginative contagion and moral corruption
Abstract Imaginatively adopted attitudes and ways of thinking sometimes persist, bleeding into day‐to‐day thoughts and interactions. Such imaginative contagion is often reported in the context of theatrical acting, and is also observed among videogame players and virtual reality users. A first question is how imaginative contagion occurs.
Alex Fisher
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Cognitive and affective empathy: The role in violent behavior and psychopathy
Antecedents: Several studies have suggested empathy impairment in psychopathy. It has been highly associated to violent and criminal behavior. Empathy is not a univariate concept; however, studies about the role of empathy components in this population ...
K.X. Díaz-Galván+2 more
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Can Neuroscience Help Predict Future Antisocial Behavior? [PDF]
Part I of this Article reviews the tools currently available to predict antisocial behavior. Part II discusses legal precedent regarding the use of, and challenges to, various prediction methods.
Anderson, Nathaniel E.+3 more
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Dissociation and interpersonal autonomic physiology in psychotherapy research: an integrative view encompassing psychodynamic and neuroscience theoretical frameworks [PDF]
Interpersonal autonomic physiology is an interdisciplinary research field, assessing the relational interdependence of two (or more) interacting individual both at the behavioral and psychophysiological levels.
Benelli, Enrico+3 more
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Abstract Politicians' personality is believed to play a central role in their electoral success. It is unclear, however, how important different traits are to voters and how the impact of personality compares to that of other well‐studied individual characteristics of politicians, such as gender, age, and political experience.
Thomas Bergeron+4 more
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Taking democracy's temperature: The (in)stability and covariates of populist attitudes
Abstract Populism among citizens is often perceived as a problem for democracies due to its rejection of representative practices. In response, scholars have put forward new democratic designs that enhance the democratic system's inclusiveness and popular control, thereby aiming to decrease populism among citizens, or so‐called populist attitudes ...
Marie‐Isabel Theuwis
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