A recent study published in the journal Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology identified four distinct trajectories of psychopathic traits among youth involved in the legal system, exploring their interrelation with anxiety and violence exposure. The findings challenge the notion...
A recent longitudinal study involving married couples in China found that a higher quality of marriage could reduce signs of psychopathy in both partners. The quality of their verbal communication may play a crucial role in this. The study was...
New research reveals that individuals with high psychopathic traits are more likely to prioritize greater overall benefit in moral dilemmas, even if it involves harm to others. The study, encompassing multiple measures of psychopathy, indicates that these individuals exhibit lower...
New research published in Biological Psychology explores the relationship between psychopathic fearlessness and low defensive cardiac reactivity. According to the new findings, women with high scores in the psychopathic trait of fearlessness tend to exhibit reduced heart rate changes when...
A news study has found that when leaders have heightened levels of the psychopathic trait known as dispositional meanness and are in positions that give them lots of power, their teams tend to perform worse. Teams under dispositionally mean leaders...
Different aspects of psychopathy are associated with different forms of aggression, according to new research published in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. The study also found that desiring power is associated with more physical aggression. The findings provide insights...
New research reveals that individuals with psychopathic traits struggle to accurately identify and connect with emotions conveyed in music. This finding adds to the growing understanding of the challenges faced by individuals with psychopathy in perceiving and experiencing emotions, extending...
People with higher levels of aggression and psychopathic traits are more likely to develop strong but imprecise beliefs about hostility, which then influence their behavior. The study, published in Translational Psychiatry, highlights the importance of understanding the cognitive processes underlying...
New research published in Heliyon explores the relationship between prenatal testosterone exposure and psychopathic personality traits. The findings indicate that there is a connection between prenatal testosterone exposure and increased egocentricity among men, but not among women. These results add...
New research published in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology investigates the relationship between psychopathic traits and parental practices and how they are affected by conduct problems. Three types of psychopathic traits were found to have unique relationships with parental practices, even...
A recently published study found that men with higher levels of psychopathic traits are more likely to engage in sexual coercion and exhibit suspicious jealousy in their romantic relationships. The study, which was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior,...
From an evolutionary point of view, psychopathy is puzzling. Given that psychopathic traits are so negative, why do they remain in successive generations? Assuming there’s a genetic component to this family of disorders, we’d expect it to decrease over time....
A new study provides evidence that men with more pronounced psychopathic personality traits exhibit greater increases in Honesty, Emotionality and Agreeableness personality traits when they were instructed to give answers (to a personality inventory) that would make them more appealing...
What are the neurocognitive mechanisms that contribute to antisocial behaviors? A study in Brain Imaging and Behavior suggests that decreased white matter connectivity could be linked to psychopathy for incarcerated women.
The criminal justice system has been under critique in recent years for prioritizing punishment over treatment, but how can we be confident in who is open to benefiting from treatment? A study published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology...
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