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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"psychopathic traits"”.
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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
… evidence that adults with psychopathy traits began that developmental trajectory in childhood. This study adds to the developing literature clarifying the construct of psychopathy in youth, including the nature of callous/unemotional traits and the relationship to social-cognitive …
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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 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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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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The relationship of intelligence and psychopathic traits to premeditated and impulsive aggression
… 1, is characterized by affective-interpersonal traits of psychopathy (Benning, Patrick, Hicks, Blonigen, & Krueger, 2003 ; Hare 1991, 2003) while Factor 2, is characterized by impulsive antisocial behavior (Benning et al., 2003; Hare 1991, 2003). Research abundantly shows that males tend to …
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Psychopathic traits in managers: Implications for employees' motivation, performance, and well-being at work
… (SDT), we proposed mechanisms by which these psychopathic traits in managers affect employees’ work-related outcomes, and sought to establish whether boldness, rather than meanness and disinhibition, can be adaptive and provide advantages to employees and organisations. We collected data using …
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Psychopathic Traits and Endocrine Function as Predictors of Costly and Non-Costly Reactive Aggression
… Thus, there are sex-specific links between psychopathic personality traits, hormones, and aggressive behaviour, and psychopathic traits and endocrine function predict aggressive behaviour independently of each other.
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Visual attention to emotional stimuli in individuals high on psychopathic traits: Evidence from eye tracking
… examine how non-incarcerated individuals high on psychopathic personality traits process emotions. Additionally, eye-tracking technology was used to provide a more fine-grained assessment of attention. In contrast to hypotheses, the high psychopathic group did not differ from the low psychopathic …
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Describing Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Processes in Adolescents with and without Psychopathic Traits: Examining Rorschach Variables
… Disorder (CD) who were either high or low on psychopathic traits. Twenty-nine male adolescents with CD in an alternative education school setting were placed into high or low psychopathy groups based on their Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL: YV) scores. Significant differences were found for …
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The effects of aggression, impulsivity, and psychopathic traits on treatment program completion in substance dependent individuals.
The P300 component of the ERP (event-related potential) is defined as the most positive peak occurring between 250 and 450 milliseconds after the onset of a stimulus. Previous work has suggested that P300 amplitude may serve as a marker for a dimension of psychiatric disorders associated with …
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Using the HEXACO to Capture Psychopathy: Development and Initial Validation of the Power Proxies of Psychopathic Traits
… found to be related to “normal” personality traits, and the HEXACO model of personality is particularly capable of capturing the “dark” personality variance integral to the construct. Additionally, while previous research indicates that psychopathy can be applied to both sexes, it has been …
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You Hurt My Feelings: Autonomic and Behavioral Responses to Social Exclusion and the Moderating Effect of Psychopathic Traits
… to maladaptive behaviors. Furthermore, psychopathic traits which are characterized by deficient emotional regulation processes have been linked to aberrant autonomic stress responses as well as to increased aggressive behaviors, and may potentially moderate people’s behavioral and …
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Aggression Turned Inward: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Psychopathic Traits and Self-Directed Aggressive Behavior
Psychopathic traits have been significantly implicated in violence and aggression, at a massive cost to individuals and society. While psychopathy's association to aggressive behavior when directed at others has been studied at length and our understanding refined as a result, less is known about …
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