Emotional Processes in Psychopathy

Patrick, Christopher J.

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“…This research could also clarify the important processes involved in the development of psychopathy. The results of this study support past research in suggesting that deficiencies in a person's experience of certain emotions may be a critical part of the causal process (Blair, 1999;Patrick, 2001). Determining how these deficiencies arise and how they can influence the moral development of the child are important directions for future research (Frick & Morris, 2004).…”

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“…threat or distress). For example, some theories of conscience development have emphasized the lack of fearful inhibitions to threatening stimuli (Kochanska, 1993;Patrick, 2001), whereas others have emphasized a reduced responsivity to the distress cues of others (Blair, 1995). Importantly, these two emotional responses may have different neurological substrates .…”

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Psychopathy, aggression, and the processing of emotional stimuli in non‐referred girls and boys

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Frick

Fazekas

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Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Research shows that individuals with psychopathic traits differ in how they process negative emotional stimuli. However, it is unclear whether these differences are specific to certain types of negative emotional stimulus and whether they are more strongly associated with psychopathic traits or aggression. Further, it is not clear whether or not deficits in emotional processing generalize to females and ethnic minority individuals with psychopathic traits. In this study, we examined the emotional processing of visual stimuli using a dot-probe task in 50 non-referred girls and boys (mean age of 9.30; SD = 2.00). Overall, there was a significant association between proactive aggression and reduced responsiveness to distressing stimuli. In addition, the predicted association between psychopathic traits and reduced responsiveness to distressing stimuli was only found for children high on aggression. Also, the associations among aggression, psychopathic traits, and responsiveness to distressing stimuli did not differ for boys and girls.

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Psychopathy, aggression, and the processing of emotional stimuli in non‐referred girls and boys

Kimonis

Frick

Fazekas

et al. 2006

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…This provides construct validation for the notion of psychopathic traits as deriving from separate etiological processes (cf. Patrick, 2001) given that they exhibited convergent and discriminant relations with two distinct domains of psychopathology. Table 1 Twin correlations for psychopathic personality traits, internalizing, and externalizing All twin correlations were estimated by fitting models to the raw data using maximum-likelihood estimation, which corrects for any potential biases due to missing data.…”

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Psychopathic personality traits: heritability and genetic overlap with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology

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Background-Little research has examined genetic and environmental contributions to psychopathic personality traits. Additionally, no studies have examined etiological connections between psychopathic traits and the broad psychopathological domains of internalizing (mood and anxiety) and externalizing (antisocial behavior, substance abuse). The current study was designed to fill these gaps in the literature.

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“…More directly, at least two studies have shown that criminals identified as perpetrating predominantly instrumental (proactive) violent offenses have higher scores on the Psychopathy Checklist than those with a history of reactive violence [Cornell et al, 1996;Dempster et al, 1996]. Patrick [2001] has also argued that "true" psychopathy is more associated with proactive rather than reactive aggression, while at the child level, Frick et al [2003] found that psychopathic-like children with callous-unemotional traits have higher proactive aggression scores. For these reasons, it was predicted that proactive, but not reactive, aggression would be characterized by higher levels of psychopathic personality, blunted affect, and stimulation-seeking tendencies.…”

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The reactive–proactive aggression questionnaire: differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys

Raine

Dodge

Loeber

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Aggressive Behavior

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This study reports the development of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), and the differential correlates of these two forms of aggression. Antisocial, psychosocial and personality measures were obtained at ages 7 and 16 years in schoolboys, while the RPQ was administered to 334 of the boys at age 16 years. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a significant fit for a twofactor proactive-reactive model that replicated from one independent subsample to another. Proactive aggression was uniquely characterized at age 7 by initiation of fights, strong-arm tactics, delinquency, poor school motivation, poor peer relationships, single-parent status, psychosocial adversity, substance-abusing parents, and hyperactivity, and at age 16 by a psychopathic personality, blunted affect, delinquency, and serious violent offending. Reactive aggression was uniquely characterized at age 16 by impulsivity, hostility, social anxiety, lack of close friends, unusual perceptual experiences, and ideas of reference. Findings confirm and extend the differential correlates of proactive-reactive aggression, and demonstrate that this brief but reliable and valid self-report instrument can be used to assess proactive and reactive aggression in child and adolescent samples.

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Emotional Processes in Psychopathy

Cited by 45 publications

References 49 publications

Psychopathy, aggression, and the processing of emotional stimuli in non‐referred girls and boys

Psychopathy, aggression, and the processing of emotional stimuli in non‐referred girls and boys

Psychopathic personality traits: heritability and genetic overlap with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology

The reactive–proactive aggression questionnaire: differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys

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