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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Psychopathic"”.
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The Fear Enjoyment Hypothesis: Psychopathic Traits and Invincibility
… invincibility mediates the relationship between psychopathic traits and fear enjoyment. Brock University undergraduate student participants (N = 81) viewed either a neutral video or a video intended to decrease feelings of invincibility and then played a horror game in Virtual Reality. …
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Pathways of Psychopathic Traits to Aggression Through Affective Correlates
… dysregulation in the relationship between psychopathic personality traits and aggression within an undergraduate sample. The project addresses three gaps in research – how psychopathic personality traits relate to empathy facets from a recently developed measure of empathy (Affective and …
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Types of Aggression, Responsiveness to Provocation, and Psychopathic Traits
… Similar to the proactive group, individuals with psychopathic traits have been found to exhibit emotional underreactivity, and physiological underarousal, while still exhibiting reactive aggression. The present study examined 85 boys (ages 13 to 18) from a detention center. Three groups of …
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Psychopathic traits and social-cognitive processes in aggressive youth
Psychopathy is associated with severe and violent aggressive behaviors, poor treatment outcomes and high rates of recidivism. In youth, conduct problems and callous/unemotional characteristics are associated with characteristics of adulthood psychopathy. Downward extending adult criteria to youth …
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Family Function, Aggression, and Psychopathic Personality Traits in College Students
… with psychopathy. It was anticipated that psychopathic traits would be positively associated with an undesirable family history and also with higher levels of aggression. However, it is unclear whether family function mediates the relationship between psychopathy and aggression. …
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Family Function, Aggression, and Psychopathic Personality Traits in College Students
… with psychopathy. It was anticipated that psychopathic traits would be positively associated with an undesirable family history and also with higher levels of aggression. However, it is unclear whether family function mediates the relationship between psychopathy and aggression. …
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Psychopathic traits, vengeance, and motivations to punish in criminal scenarios
… of this study was to examine the influence of psychopathic traits on punishment allocations and the motivations those higher in psychopathy use in their decisions to punish others. A previous study found that individuals higher in psychopathic traits were less retributive when punishing a …
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Psychopathic Traits, Skin Conductance, and Emotion in the Normal Population
Research has suggested that psychopathic characteristics exist along a continuum extending into the normal population (Andershed, Gustafson, Kerr, & Stattin, 2002; Ross, Lutz, & Bailley, 2004; Williams, Paulhus, & Hare, 2007). Individuals high in subclinical psychopathy were expected to show the …
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The Weak Spot: Psychopathic Traits and Environmental Cues for Exploitation
… predator hypothesis claims that people with psychopathic traits are capable of and often do engage in the exploitation of others for their own benefit. For people with psychopathic traits to be successful in this regard, they need to be able to judge the vulnerability of those they aim to …
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Psychopathic Agents: Use and Implications for Rural Caregivers of Dementia Patients
<p>Elderly caregivers of dementia individuals within the community are at risk for mental and emotional stress. One method caregivers have coped with this stress is through psychotropic and social drug use.<br> Although research has investigated drug-taking practices of the elderly in the …
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Validity Study of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Noncriminal Population
<p>The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) is a self-report measure which was created by Lilienfeld and Andrews (1996) to identify the personality traits of psychopathy in noncriminal populations. These personality traits were grouped into eight subscales in the PPI including Machiavellian …
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Neuropsychological Deficits in Adolescents with Psychopathic Characteristics: Callous and Unemotional Symptoms
… the cognitive profile of adolescents with psychopathic characteristics, looking at executive functions and how they differ in individuals who score high on callous/unemotional traits (CU; Cleckley, 1941; Frick et al., 1994; Hare, 1991, 1993). Then apply these findings to the cognitive …
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Psychopathic traits and emotional coherence across physiological, facial, and self-report responses
… responses in individuals with heightened psychopathic traits and assess whether coherence measures could be used as a proxy for evaluating the authenticity of emotional responses. Participants (N = 63) completed a series of questionnaires and engaged in an empathic accuracy task. They were …
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Developmental Pathways to Psychopathic Traits in Caucasian and African American Juvenile Offenders
… body of research suggesting that the presence of psychopathic traits, and more specifically, callous-unemotional traits in youth, may constitute a distinct developmental pathway to aggressive behavior. However, ethnic groups are understudied in this literature such that it is unclear whether the …
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Incarcerated juvenile delinquents: psychopathic traits and the relevance of callous-unemotional traits
… adolescents, suggesting that those with elevated psychopathic traits in general and elevated callous-unemotional traits in particular are an important subgroup of antisocial youth showing a particularly severe, violent and persistent pattern of behavior. The present investigation has as its aims: …
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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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Psychometric Properties of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Non-criminal Population
<p>The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) is a self-report measure which was created to identify the personality traits of psychopathy in noncriminal populations. These personality traits were grouped into eight subscales in the PPI including Machiavellian Egocentricity, Social Potency, …
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Examination of Psychopathic Traits and Attention Using the Image Based Parity Task
… at least partly involved in how individuals with psychopathic traits process all information. As Coldheartedness increased interference from positively and negatively arousing distractors was similar. Likewise, increasing levels of Self-Centered Impulsivity were found to be associated with better …
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Predicting Behavior from Psychopathic and Antisocial Personality Traits in a Student Sample.
<p>Psychopathic personality is associated with a myriad of social and behavioral problems including violence, criminal activity, and overall failure to conform to social standards. In this study, psychopathic and antisocial personality traits are measured in a sample of college students via …
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