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Psychopathy: what are fearless people afraid of?
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionHistorically, the distinction between primary and secondary psychopathy has focused on fear or lack thereof and limited anxiety symptoms. Individuals high in primary psychopathy traits often exhibit little or no anxiety or fear.
Carlos M. Coelho +10 more
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Effect of MAOA promoter polymorphism and neuropsychological performance on psychopathy traits
Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2015 Introduction: Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by affective and antisocial traits. The defining features of psychopathy are risk factors to present violent behavior.
C. Romero-Rebollar +4 more
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Juvenile &Family Court Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Family court judges in contested custody matters increasingly face competing testimony from two structurally different categories of mental health experts. The first is a court‐appointed neutral evaluator selected through a vetting process. The second is a mental health professional retained and compensated by one party to challenge the court ...
Michael W. Gombatz, Syretta R. James
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 Offenders with psychopathy have often committed crimes violating social norms, which may suggest a biased moral reasoning in psychopathy. Yet, as findings on utilitarian decisions remain conflicting, the current study investigated different aspects of ...
Sina eRadke +5 more
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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Aversive (“dark”) personality traits are traditionally studied as predictors of harmful or manipulative behavior, yet their underlying cognitive‐affective structures remain underexplored. This research investigates whether the Dark Core of personality (D)—the common aversive essence of all dark traits—is associated with primal world ...
Robin Schrödter, Benjamin E. Hilbig
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The Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM): alternative to the PCL-R? [PDF]
Psychopathic personality disorder is the subject of many research papers and in particular in the context of forensic settings, where its link to risk of future violence has been established.
Evans, Lydia, Tully, Ruth
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Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law [PDF]
, 2012 Includes bibliographical references.This study drew on South African criminal case reports containing judicial pronouncements on psychopathy between 1947 and 1999 to explore the historical relationship between psychology and the law.
Silkstone, Christine
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Would the Real Trait Sadism Please Stand Up? On the Factor Structure of Trait Sadism
Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective We analyzed the items of trait sadism measures to identify a coherent, hierarchical factor structure. Background Numerous models and measures purport to assess trait sadism. Some of these measures overlap to a limited extent only. Simultaneously, trait sadism measures show strong redundancies with measures of psychopathy.
Christian Blötner +3 more
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A systematic review on the current conceptualisations of successful psychopathy
, 2022 The concept of successful psychopathy has been debated for years, however, there is yet to be any unified approach to its definition and conceptualisation.
Alexander Sumich +3 more
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Heliyon, 2019 Rentfrow et al. (2013) constructs a cross-section of the “Big Five” personality traits and demonstrates their relationship with outcomes variables for the continental United States and the District of Columbia. Hyatt et al.
Ryan H. Murphy
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