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Higher Trait Psychopathy Is Associated with Increased Risky Decision-Making and Less Coincident Insula and Striatal Activity

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017
Higher trait levels of psychopathy have been associated with both a tendency to maintain disadvantageous decision-making strategies and aberrant cortico-limbic neural activity.
Matthew T. Sutherland, Diana H. Fishbein
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Narcissism Is Associated With Blunted Error‐Related Brain Activity

Journal of Personality, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 741-757, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective Narcissism is associated with self‐enhancement and social antagonism, yet its neural underpinnings, particularly in error processing, remain underexplored. Competing theoretical models, such as the mask model and the metacognitive model, offer conflicting hypotheses regarding how narcissism influences early neural responses to errors.
Esther M. Robins, Zhiwei Zhou, Chengli Huang, Douglas J. Angus, Constantine Sedikides, Nicholas J. Kelley   +5 more
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The Role of Empathy and Alexithymia Dimensions in Predicting Psychopathy Traits: A Cross-Cultural Study

Psychiatry International
Psychopathy is a complex personality trait involving emotional and behavioral deficits that often overlap with alexithymia and reduced empathy. While it is reasonable to assume that the cognitive and behavioral traits associated with this construct may ...
Iara Teixeira, Felipe Alckmin-Carvalho, Alice Jones Bartoli, Guilherme Welter Wendt   +3 more
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Resisting Psychopathologies of Dominance and Authoritarianism: From Trumpian Dystopia to Better Tomorrows

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 618-625, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background The world and mental health nursing face several crises that, in different ways, reflect problems of dominance. Global politics are afflicted with a growth of support for right‐wing ideologies associated with domineering authoritarian leaders.
Michael Haslam, Mick McKeown
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What if the Risk Manager is Malevolent?

Risk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Risk is a fundamental aspect of human endeavors, and risk managers serve an indispensable role within organizations and society. Risk managers engage in identification, assessment, communication, and control of numerous types of risks. These activities support decision‐making about the relative benefits and risks of various courses of action ...
Zachary A. Collier, Tiana Kaleeva
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Social preferences and psychopathy in a sample of male prisoners—a pilot study

Scientific Reports
Social decisions are influenced by a person’s social preferences. High psychopathy is defined by antisocial behaviour, but the relationship between psychopathy and social preferences remains unclear.
Benjamin J. Kuper-Smith, Alexander Voulgaris, Peer Briken, Johannes Fuss, Christoph W. Korn   +4 more
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No Differential Effects of Neural and Psychological Explanations of Psychopathy on Moral Behavior

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Research in neurocriminology has explored the link between neural functions and structures and the psychopathic disposition. This online experiment aimed to assess the effect of communicating the neuroscience of psychopathy on the degree to which lay ...
Robert Blakey, Adrian Dahl Askelund, Matilde Boccanera, Johanna Immonen, Nejc Plohl, Cassandra Popham, Clarissa Sorger, Julia Stuhlreyer   +7 more
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Is psychopathy a disorder or an adaptation?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2012
Liane eLeedom, Linda Hartoonian eAlmas
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Social exclusion evokes different psychophysiological responses in individuals high on the psychopathy facets fearless dominance and self-centered impulsivity

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Individuals with psychopathic personality traits are generally thought to have difficulties in processing and experiencing emotions. These difficulties could also translate to emotionally charged social situations such as social exclusion. Being socially
Natalia A. Seeger, Natalia A. Seeger, Nathalie Brackmann, Claus Lamm, Kristina Hennig-Fast, Daniela M. Pfabigan   +5 more
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Psychopathy and Emotion Regulation: Evidence for Dynamic Attentional Biases in Incarcerated Men

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
Psychopathy is a syndrome of personality pathology associated with callousness, manipulation, and persistent antisocial behavior. Whereas several contemporary perspectives emphasize innate emotional unresponsiveness as the core deficit in psychopathy ...
Nastassia R. E. Riser, Courtney N. Beussink, Steven A. Miller, David S. Kosson   +3 more
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