Consideration of future consequences (CFC) serves as a buffer against aggression related to psychopathy. [PDF]
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]
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.
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, autism, and basic moral emotions: Evidence for sentimentalist constructivism [PDF]
Philosophers and psychologists often claim that moral agency is connected with the ability to feel, understand, and deploy moral emotions. In this chapter, I investigate the nature of these emotions and their connection with moral agency.
Ramirez, Erick
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Psychopathy is an important forensic construct. Psychopathic personality disorder has long been recognized as an important forensic construct. It has relevance for violence, treatability and manageability. It is a construct that can have a disproportionate influence on decision making and ethical forensic practice requires practitioners to take ...
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Neural correlates of moral and non-moral emotion in female psychopathy
This study presents the first neuroimaging investigation of female psychopathy in an incarcerated population. Prior studies have found that male psychopathy is associated with reduced limbic and paralimbic activation when processing emotional stimuli and
Carla L Harenski +4 more
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False-Positives in Psychopathy Assessment: Proposing Theory-Driven Exclusion Criteria in Research Sampling [PDF]
Recent debates in psychopathy studies have articulated concerns about false-positives in assessment and research sampling. These are pressing concerns for research progress, since scientific quality depends on sample quality, that is, if we wish to study
Rosenberg Larsen, Rasmus
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Psychopathic individuals are notorious for their callous disregard for others’ emotions. Prior research has linked psychopathy to deficits in affective mechanisms underlying empathy (e.g., affective sharing), yet research relating psychopathy to ...
Philip Deming +8 more
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Exposure to criminal environment and criminal social identity in a sample of adult prisoners: The moderating role of psychopathic traits [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of period of incarceration, criminal friend index (a retrospective measure intended to quantify criminal associations before first incarceration), and four psychopathy factors (interpersonal ...
Boduszek, Daniel +2 more
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Defectors cannot be detected during"small talk" with strangers. [PDF]
To account for the widespread human tendency to cooperate in one-shot social dilemmas, some theorists have proposed that cooperators can be reliably detected based on ethological displays that are difficult to fake.
Gervais, Matthew M +2 more
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