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...
A new study has found that people who reported suffering betrayal trauma in childhood were more likely to exhibit psychopathic and callous traits in adulthood. Dissociative experiences were found to mediate this association. The study was published in the Journal...
A new study published in Personality and Individual Differences examined the role that adaptive psychopathic traits may play in the lives of those who score high on measures of psychopathy. The findings indicate that individuals with higher levels of traits...
Psychopathic tendencies tend to be associated with reduced levels of emotional awareness, according to a new study published in PLOS One. However, this negative relationship is strongest among individuals who experienced heightened adversity in early life. Adding another wrinkle to...
New research sheds light on the psychological profiles of individuals who have been convicted of capital murder in California and sentenced to death. The study, published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, found a "pronounced heterogeneity" concerning clinical psychopathy. While...
The findings indicate that individuals high in the psychopathic trait of fearless dominance were less likely to produce false memories when exposed to negative stimuli. Likewise, individuals high in the psychopathic trait of cold-heartedness tended to have fewer true memories...
An online survey of university student gamblers reported that people who gamble and are prone to lying, cheating and callous behavior (primary psychopathy) were much more likely to fall into gambling-related problems and much less likely to use strategies to...