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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Psychopaths"”.
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The self-concept of psychopaths
"Many studies have supported the existence of a relationship between the self-concept and behavior; however, little is known about the nature of this relationship: Is the self-concept the cause or the result of behavior? To resolve this dilemna is not the intention of the present study. Our purpose …
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Climbing the corporate ladder: desired skills and successful psychopaths
… of the characteristics embodied by successful psychopaths, such as superficial charm, cool decisiveness, and a grandiose self-worth, are often treated synonymously with corporate leadership qualities. Consequently, successful psychopaths are actively being selected for corporate positions as …
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Detection threshold for heart rate change in psychopaths, recidivists and normals
… for perception of increased heart rate in psychopaths and normals in order to see if the problem is an attentional one. If such a difference were not found the next step would be to compare psychopaths and normals on the strength of the cognitive fear reaction to S<sub>ar</sub>m the source …
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Do Criminal and Successful (Non-Institutionalized) Psychopaths Differ on Internal, Environmental, and Contextual Characteristics?
… have shifted their efforts towards the study of psychopaths who reside beyond the walls of prisons and institutions – these psychopaths have come to be known as “successful” psychopaths. The extant literature not only suggests that successful psychopaths exist, but that they possess fundamental …
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Emotion and attention in the psychopath : an investigation of affective response and facilitated attention using event related potentials.
… establish the existence of differences between psychopaths and controls in their integration of emotional information in the very early stages of information processing as indexed by ERP waveform differences, and determine whether manipulations of attentional focus are capable of modulating …
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Electrodermal and cardiovascular activity in psychopathy : indicants of a coping response
… the psychophysiological responsivity of psychopaths. In a particularly productive line of research subjects' heartrates (HR) and skin conductance responses (SCR) have been measured during a countdown prior to the onset of an aversive stimulus. During the countdown, psychopaths have been …
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Machine Learning And Natural Language Methods For Detecting Psychopathy In Textual Data
… it may be possible to use textual samples from psychopaths as a means for understanding and ultimately classifying similar individuals based on the content of their language usage. This paper aims to investigate natural language processing and supervised machine learning methods for detecting …
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Emotion and psychopathy: a three-component analysis
… affective states. The results indicate that psychopaths do not differ from criminal controls in their affective self-report, autonomic nervous system response, or observed facial expressions to emotional stimuli. However, with respect to cerebral asymmetry, psychopaths failed to show relative …
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Adolescent Psychopathy in an Adjudicated Male Population: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Disorders
… disorder have on adolescents classified as psychopaths. The participants consisted of 79 adjudicated male adolescents in a maximum-security facility. As hypothesized, adolescent male psychopaths had higher levels of sensation seeking, impulsivity, conduct disorder and oppositional defiant …
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Visual attention to emotional stimuli in individuals high on psychopathic traits: Evidence from eye tracking
<p>Researchers have described psychopaths as callous, cold-hearted individuals who show reduced empathic response to their victims. It is suggested that the inability to identify negative emotions, specifically fear, in individuals is what allows psychopaths to offend/take advantage of other people …
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The effects of emotional interrupt on reaction times in primary and secondary psychopathy
… psychopathy. Literature has described primary psychopaths as having superficial charm, compulsive lying, and lack of empathy, whereas secondary psychopaths are described as those with a parasitic lifestyle, who are impulsive, and prone to boredom. The results of the present study indicate that …
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Using Item Response Theory to Bridge the Measurement Gap Between Normal Personality and Psychopathy
… indicated that, contrary to prior findings, psychopaths do not represent a discrete taxon. In Study 2, which included a combined sample of undergraduate students and individuals receiving treatment in a substance abuse recovery center (N = 272), I added items to an existing measure of …
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A Mediacentric Examination Of The Corporate Psychopath
… of corporate leaders and clinically diagnosed psychopaths. One profession that may be attractive to psychopathic personalities is the media, specifically television and radio. This exploratory study utilized a blend of original and archival data. Calculated effect sizes were used to examine the …
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Psychophysiological responses to affective stimuli in high, moderate, and low socialized students
… affective stimuli in much the same way as true psychopaths do.
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The Phenomenon of Amoralism: An Investigation of the Cognitive and Emotive Roots
… motivational structure, and the value system of psychopaths can shed light on at least three aspects related to the analysis of the moral agency. First, it can help elucidating the emotive and cognitive conditions necessary for moral performance. Secondly, it can provide empirical evidence …
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Lay Theories and Attitudes About Psychopathy
It is known that psychopaths receive harsher sentences than those who do not have the psychopathic label. And yet, jurors, or laypeople more broadly, do not have a thorough conception of psychopathy. Thus the goals of this research were to examine laypeople's understanding and attitudes about …
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Assessment of Psychopathy in Incarcerated Females
Psychopaths constitute only an estimated 1% of the population, yet they are responsible for a disproportionately large number of violent and nonviolent crimes. The literature addressing this syndrome among male offenders is quite extensive. In contrast, psychopathy and its underlying factor …
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Moral competence and the psychopath.
… the assessment of moral/legal responsibility of psychopaths.
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Affect Intensity and Perceptions of Arousal in a Subclinical Level of Psychopathy Termed Aberrant Self-Promotion
… response-time slowing, indicating that, like psychopaths, ASPs may process positive, negative, and neutral stimuli similarly. Additional results indicated that low-AI ASPs decreased both energetic and tension arousal levels after the emotional word task, compared to the neutral word task, …
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