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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"psychopathy"”.
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Psychopathy and Attachment: Examining the Relationship between Secure Attachment Priming and Psychopathy
… between attachment dimensions and expressed psychopathy; specifically, it was hypothesized that security priming would reduce levels of expressed psychopathy. A repeated measures design was also used to assess the association between state attachment variables and expressed psychopathy. The …
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Emotional Behavior in Subclinical Psychopathy
<p>The unique interpersonal qualities of individuals who fall on the so-called ‘psychopathic spectrum’ have been regularly documented since Cleckley’s observations (1941). The literature reflects the importance of understanding individuals who have high and low levels of psychopathic personality …
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Attention-Emotion Interactions in Psychopathy
… was designed to test an etiological model of psychopathy that re-conceptualizes the attentional and emotional deficits associated with the disorder in an integrative framework. The sample consisted of 63 justice-system involved individuals who were recruited based on their scores on the …
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Psychopathy and Attachment: The Effect of Security Priming on Psychopathy in a College Student Sample
<p>Psychopathy has been defined as a pattern of negative behaviors, social interactions, and affective features, including impoverishment of emotion, unethical and manipulative actions, and impulsivity (Neumann & Hare, 2008). It is estimated that between 15 to 30 percent of incarcerated adults meet …
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Assessment of Psychopathy in Incarcerated Females
… male offenders is quite extensive. In contrast, psychopathy and its underlying factor structure remains understudied among female offenders. Research has suggested marked gender differences in the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and underlying dimensions of psychopathy. This study examined …
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Interrelationships Between Sensation Seeking and Psychopathy
… seekers. A college student sample assessed for psychopathy, sensation seeking, and family functioning is used to test this hypothesis. Significant relationships between all three constructs were found. Similar to previous data, sensation seeking was found to correlate with many elements of …
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Assessing Common Variance in Psychopathy Measures
… there is support in the literature that the psychopathy construct measured in adulthood are evidenced in youth. For example, psychopathy traits measured by the Psychopathy Check List-Revised (PCL-R), noted as the gold standard assessment measure of psychopathy in adults, has been slightly …
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Lay Theories and Attitudes About Psychopathy
… broadly, do not have a thorough conception of psychopathy. Thus the goals of this research were to examine laypeople's understanding and attitudes about psychopathy, and to test if an educational experimental manipulation can improve laypeople's understanding of this disorder. Study 1 revealed …
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Emotion and psychopathy: a three-component analysis
… was designed to examine the hypothesis that psychopathy is associated with an affective deficit. Subjects were 42 incarcerated offenders divided into nonpsychopathic and psychopathic groups based on their scores on the Hare Revised Psychopathy Checklist (Hare, 1991). Facial expressions, …
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A Comparative Analysis of Self-Control and Psychopathy
Self-control and psychopathy, despite being dominant conceptualizations from their respective fields, have seldom been compared with one another to assess their similar and unique attributes as well as measured in their ability to predict future offending. Therefore, the focus of this thesis is to …
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Psychopathy and Incapacity to Love: Role of Physiological Arousal
Psychopathy is a rare and unique disorder, primarily associated with an emotional deficiency and an inclination towards violent antisocial behavior. Among the various symptoms, the affective experience of the incapacity for love has received little empirical attention, despite having been …
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Psychopathy Symptom Profiles and Neuropsychological Measures Sensitive to Orbitofrontal Functioning
… of 100 incarcerated male offenders and their psychopathy symptoms. The study's rejected hypothesis had predicted a significant relationship between measures of OF functioning and the Defective Affective Experience (DAE) and Impulsive and Irresponsible Behavioral Style (IIB) factors of the …
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Investigating the Construct of Psychopathy in Lebanese and American Adults
<p>Psychopathy has been primarily investigated in forensic and psychiatric populations in North America. Cross-cultural studies, mainly conducted in Europe, have shown disparities in psychopathy scores and the measures’ psychometric properties, which raise the issue of cultural factors, such as …
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Psychopathy, institutional behaviour and motivation to change in adolescent offenders
This thesis exarrunes the nature and extent of psychopathy in adolescent offenders with a history of physical aggression, and the implications of psychopathy for institutional behaviour and motivation to change. The sample included female participants. There were three parts to the study. Part 1 …
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An analysis of conscious fear and automatic threat response in psychopathy
… The present study sought to clarify whether psychopathy is associated with each of these types of “fear.” In a sample of 64 male and female inmates in a county jail, threat detection, as well as the ability to recognize threat directed toward others, were assessed using threatening images …
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The relationship between psychopathy and indirect aggression in a commuity sample.
… sought to investigate the relationship between psychopathy and indirect aggression use. Psychopathy has been strongly linked with increased levels of aggressive behaviour and in particular violence (Porter & Woodworth, 2006). However, thus far research has predominantly focused on direct forms …
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Electrodermal and cardiovascular activity in psychopathy : indicants of a coping response
… Recently, Hare (1980a, 1985b) created the Psychopathy Checklist based upon 16 characteristics of psychopathy elaborated by Cleckley. The checklist is a valid and reliable method for assessing criminal psychopathy (Hare, 1983, 1985a; Hare & McPherson,1984; Wong, 1984). Numerous studies have …
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Psychopathy and emotion regulation: The mediating role of motives and goals
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Can the Triarchic Model Differentiate between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder?
… represents the closest diagnostic equivalent to psychopathy in the DSM-IV, it has long been recognized as failing to capture the full range of the construct. The current study examined the degree to which boldness, a trait domain within the triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy (Patrick et …
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The convergence of psychopathy, self-rated vulnerability, and other-rated vulnerability
… Individuals scoring higher on Factor 2 and total psychopathy were significantly less discrepant from target self-rat~ngs of vulnerability, r (64) = - .39,p < .001; r (64) = - .29,p >.01, respectively. The final purpose of this study was to determine which body language cues were mos t salient to …
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