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Psychopathy is associated with fear-specific reductions in neural activity during affective perspective-taking

open access: yesNeuroImage, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Disentangle psychopathic traits, self-construal and prosocial behaviours: A literature review

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

Neurosurgery for Psychopaths? An Ethical Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Self‐Report and Behavioural Procrastination in Relation to the Dark Triad Traits [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Psychol
ABSTRACT This article reports on a short‐term longitudinal study exploring self‐reported and behavioural procrastination of 298 German university students taking a 15‐week statistics course. More specifically, associations between the Dark Triad traits and two self‐report procrastination measures and one behavioural procrastination task (i.e., a ...
Kowalski C   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Neurosurgery for psychopaths? The problems of empathy and neurodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Defectors cannot be detected during"small talk" with strangers. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core   +2 more sources

Emotion regulation in psychopathy [PDF]

open access: yesBiological Psychology, 2013
Emotion processing is known to be impaired in psychopathy, but less is known about the cognitive mechanisms that drive this. Our study examined experiencing and suppression of emotion processing in psychopathy. Participants, violent offenders with varying levels of psychopathy, viewed positive and negative images under conditions of passive viewing ...
Casey, Helen   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Psychopathy

open access: yesMain Issues Of Pedagogy And Psychology, 2010
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 ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Correlation Between Psychopathy Traces and Interpersonal Behavior: Assessment on Private Women of Freedom

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +1 more source

A meta-analysis of childhood maltreatment in relation to psychopathic traits.

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

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