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Neurosurgery for psychopaths? The problems of empathy and neurodiversity [PDF]
, 2016 I argue that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a bad approach for incarcerated psychopaths for two reasons. First, given what we know about psychopathy, empathy, and DBS, it is unlikely to function as an effective treatment for the moral problems that ...
Ramirez, Erick
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Revista de Psicologia da IMED, 2020 Recent studies focus predominantly on male psychopathy. This study investigated the female population by examining correlations between two instruments: the Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (PCL-R), used exclusively in the justice system for psychiatric ...
Fernanda Xavier Hoffmeister +7 more
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Do psychopathic traits predict criminal activity?
Journal of Applied Economics, 2022 Psychopathy evidence is frequently used for court decisions involving young criminals, claiming that is it an important predictor of crime. We investigate the effect of psychopathy on crime using a unique panel dataset of young offenders, which allows to
M. Antonella Mancino, Tarek Attia
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Neurosurgery for Psychopaths? An Ethical Analysis [PDF]
, 2016 Recent developments in neuroscience have inspired proposals to perform deep brain stimulation on psychopathic detainees. We contend that these proposals cannot meet important ethical requirements that hold for both medical research and therapy.
Hübner, Dietmar, White, Lucie
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Disentangle psychopathic traits, self-construal and prosocial behaviours: A literature review
Acta Psychologica, 2023 Psychopathy encompasses a constellation of personality traits, including interpersonal callousness, absence of remorse and guilt, and impulsivity. While extensive research has linked psychopathy to various antisocial behaviours, there has been a scarcity
Yiheng Lin, Bin Xie
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A meta-analysis of childhood maltreatment in relation to psychopathic traits.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a mix of traits belonging to four facets: affective (e.g., callous/lack of empathy), interpersonal (e.g., grandiosity), behavioral instability (e.g., impulsivity, poor behavioral controls), and ...
Corine de Ruiter +6 more
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Propriedades psicométricas de uma escala para medir o lado escuro da personalidade [PDF]
, 2018 The psychometric characteristics of the Dark Triad Scale (Jones & Paulhus, 2014) in an Argentinian context are presented. Two successive studies were carried out. Three hundred sixteen people, with an average age of 34.48 years (SD = 10.57), participated
Omar, Alicia Graciela +1 more
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The inventory of callous–unemotional traits: psychometric properties among referred and non-referred portuguese female juveniles [PDF]
, 2017 The presence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits delineates a subgroup of male youth with severe conduct disorder and antisocial behavior, but little research has been done among female youth.
Gonçalves, Rui Abrunhosa +3 more
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NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 Psychopathy is a personality disorder defined by antisocial behavior paired with callousness, low empathy, and low interpersonal emotions. Psychopathic individuals reliably display complex atypicalities in emotion and attention processing that are ...
Scott Tillem +6 more
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Treating Psychopaths Fairly [PDF]
, 2016 Dietmar Hübner and Lucie White question the ethical justification of employing risky neurosurgical interventions to treat imprisoned psychopaths. They argue that (1) such interventions would confer no medical benefit on the psychopath as there is no ...
Wonderly, Monique
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