Diagnosing Psychopathy through Emotional Regulation Tasks: Heart Rate Variability versus Implicit Association Test

Flórez, Gerardo; Vila, Xosé A.; Lado, Marı́a J.; Cuesta, Pedro; Ferrer, Ventura; García, Luis S.; Crespo, María R.; Pérez, Manuel

doi:10.1159/000479884

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“…As there is a great need for non-symptom-based methods to detect psychopathy to optimize predictive validity, using symptoms or criminal behavior to diagnose psychopathy is not conducive for preventing antisocial behavior 27 . After first transgressions, individuals are at a higher risk of committing subsequent offences 28 , which further highlights the value of early detection.…”

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Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure

Cheng

Chou

Martínez

et al. 2021

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Coercive power has different effects on individuals, and which were unable to be fully addressed in Milgram’s famous studies on obedience to authority. While some individuals exhibited high levels of guilt-related anxiety and refused orders to harm, others followed coercive orders throughout the whole event. The lack of guilt is a well-known characteristic of psychopathy, and recent evidence portrays psychopathic personalities on a continuum of clustered traits, while being pervasive in a significant proportion in the population. To investigate whether psychopathic traits better explain discrepancies in antisocial behavior under coercion, we applied a virtual obedience paradigm, in which an experimenter ordered subjects to press a handheld button to initiate successive actions that carry different moral consequences, during fMRI scanning. Psychopathic traits modulated the association between harming actions and guilt feelings on both behavioral and brain levels. This study sheds light on the individual variability in response to coercive power.

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Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure

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Chou

Martínez

et al. 2021

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“…They found support for a general psychopathy factor they opined validated the CAPP as a concept map, but also interpreted three residual group factors as resembling the triarchic model of psychopathy. Other studies have revealed evidence that the CAPP model overlaps with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 2003) and Screening Version (Flórez et al, 2017; Hart et al, 1995; Pedersen et al, 2010; Sandvik et al, 2012), and that the CAPP equaled the latter in the prediction of violence and general reoffending (Pedersen et al, 2010), and related more strongly than the PCL-R to heart rate variability parameters (Flórez et al, 2017).…”

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Further Validation of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality-Self-Report (CAPP-SR) in Lithuanian Offender and Nonoffender Samples

2020

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The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) is an emerging integrative model that makes use of 33 symptoms to characterize psychopathic personality disorder, but operationalizations of this model have not endured extensive validation to date. The current study sought to validate the recently published CAPP-Self-Report (CAPP-SR). Participants derived from two Lithuanian offender ( n = 231) and nonoffender ( n = 312) samples. They were administered the CAPP-SR, Triarchic Psychopathy Measure, Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire, and a subsample of offenders also had Offender Assessment System risk assessment scores available. The results showed that CAPP-SR total, domain, and symptom scores were associated with TriPM and Aggression Questionnaire scores in a manner consistent with conceptual expectations. CAPP-SR symptoms specifically reflective of aggression, anger, and antagonism were most strongly associated with Offender Assessment System risk scores. The findings provide support for construct validity of CAPP-SR scores as well as have implications for the CAPP model more broadly, which are discussed.

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“…Table 1. As previously reported in [37,38,40], Table 1 indicates IPDE scores and sociodemographic and forensic variables of the sample. Significance levels of these variables in relation to a PCL-R cut-off score of 25 and a proportional CAPP cut-off score of 124 are also shown.…”

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“…The protocol followed in the current study has been described in detail elsewhere [37,38]. Participants in the current study are the same as in our previously published PCL-R and CAPP work [37,38,40].…”

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Comparison between the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality in a representative sample of Spanish prison inmates

Flórez

Ferrer²,

García³

et al. 2020

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In the field of psychopathy, there is an ongoing debate about the core traits that define the disorder, and that therefore must be present to some extent in all psychopaths. The main controversy of this debate concerns criminal behaviour, as some researchers consider it a defining trait, while others disagree. Using a representative sample of 204 Spanish convicted inmates incarcerated at the Pereiro de Aguiar Penitentiary in Ourense, Spain, we tested two competing models, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which includes criminal behaviour items, versus the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP), which does not. We used two different PCL-R models, one that includes criminal items and another that does not. PCL-R factors, facets, and testlets from both models and CAPP dimensions were correlated and compared. Two different PCL-R cutoff scores, 25 or more and 30 or more, were used for the analysis. Overall, a strong correlation was found between PCL-R and CAPP scores in the whole sample, but as scores increased and inmates became more psychopathic, the correlations weakened. All these data indicate that psychopathy, understood to mean having high scores on the PCL-R and CAPP, is a multidimensional entity, and inmates can develop the disorder and then receive the diagnosis through different dimensions. The CAPP domains showed better correlations when compared with the PCL-R factors from both models, showing that an instrument for the assessment of psychopathy without a criminal dimension is valuable for clinical assessment and research purposes.

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Diagnosing Psychopathy through Emotional Regulation Tasks: Heart Rate Variability versus Implicit Association Test

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure

Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure

Further Validation of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality-Self-Report (CAPP-SR) in Lithuanian Offender and Nonoffender Samples

Comparison between the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality in a representative sample of Spanish prison inmates

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