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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Antisocial personality disorders"”.
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Developing measures of psychopathic personality traits from the international personality item pool
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Psychology, 2009
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The effects of emotional interrupt on reaction times in primary and secondary psychopathy
… each of the interrupt conditions are affected by personality traits of each participant. This study focused on participants who completed the Levenson Primary and Secondary Psychopathy Scale, who scored high enough to be categorized within the high scoring primary psychopathy group, high scoring …
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Tinfoil hats and togas : conspiracy ideation and the dark triad amongst university students
… For instance, individuals high in Dark Triad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) may be susceptible to believing conspiracy theories to a greater extent. This present research studied conspiracy theories and Dark Triad traits in University of Malta students. …
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Measurement of Adolescent Psychopathy: Construct and Predictive Validity in Two Samples of Juvenile Offenders
… the classification and explanation of childhood antisocial behavior. The new generation of psychopathy measures, designed to measure this construct in adolescent populations, must meet acceptable standards of reliability and validity prior to the clinical application of the construct with …
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Emotional Behavior in Subclinical Psychopathy
… who have high and low levels of psychopathic personality traits for research (Lilienfeld, 1998, Patrick, Edens, Poythress, Lilienfeld & Benning, 2006), clinical (Patrick, Hicks, Blonigen & Krueger, 2003) and risk assessment purposes (Skeem, Poythress, Edens, Lilienfeld & Cade, 2003) through …
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Group intervention to modify undesirable behavior in children who have experienced parental loss
This study uses a cognitive group intervention approach in an attempt to alter anti-social behavior in elementary school children who experienced parental loss. The findings demonstrate improvement in some behaviors and worsening in others.
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Examination of Psychopathic Traits and Attention Using the Image Based Parity Task
… emerged in an attempt to better understand the personality construct. The response modulation hypothesis (RMH; Patterson & Newman, 1993) is a theory growing in popularity among researchers and posits that an inability to reallocate attentional resources to peripheral information moderates the …
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PPI-R: Factor Structure in a Diverse Subclinical Sample
… the factor structure of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory – Revised (PPI-R) has yielded mixed results. This study attempted to examine the three proposed factor structures (one-, two-, or three-) for the PPI-R utilizing a mixed gender undergraduate sample. Results demonstrated poor …
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The relationship of intelligence and psychopathic traits to premeditated and impulsive aggression
… while Factor 2, is characterized by impulsive antisocial behavior (Benning et al., 2003; Hare 1991, 2003). Research abundantly shows that males tend to score higher on personality traits associated with Factor 2 (Hare, 1991), but there are inconsistencies in the literature regarding females …