Remember me? Psychopathic traits and emotional memory in an undergraduate sample

Reducing psychopathic violence: A review of the treatment literature

“…It is generally the case that women are less violent than men (Archer, 2004; Bettencourt & Miller, 1996; Zeichner, Parrott, & Frey, 2003) which may be due to empathy, a known protective factor for aggressive and violent behavior that is present to greater degrees in women (Yildirim & Derksen, 2012). Laboratory research suggests that the emotion dysfunction central to psychopathy may be less dysfunctional for women relative men (e.g., Ragbeer & Burnette, 2013; Reidy, Zeichner, & Foster, 2009; Reidy, Zeichner, Hunnicutt-Ferguson, & Lilienfeld, 2008). Future research on psychopathy may benefit from examining whether protective factors for aggression are also more present in female psychopaths and whether high psychopathy women may be more responsive to treatment than their male counterparts.…”

Emotional processing and psychopathic traits in male college students: An event-related potential study

“…Historically, psychopathy has been operationalized as a categorical construct, and research has focused predominantly on incarcerated individuals (for a review see Skeem et al, 2011). However, in an effort to better understand the heterogeneity of psychopathic traits, it is increasingly common for studies to include non-incarcerated individuals (Anderson and Stanford, 2012;Benning et al, 2005a;Justus and Finn, 2007;Sellbom and Verona, 2007;Skeem et al, 2003), including undergraduates (Anderson et al, 2011;Del Gaizo and Falkenbach, 2008;Fulton et al, 2010;Gordon et al, 2004;Mullins-Nelson et al, 2006;Ragbeer and Burnette, 2013). Undergraduates with high levels of psychopathic traits share similarities with their incarcerated counterparts, in terms of negative emotional experiences (Del Gaizo and Falkenbach, 2008), and increased incidence of antisocial behaviors (Fulton et al, 2010;Mullins-Nelson et al, 2006), which underscores the relevance of investigating these traits in college students.…”

Empathy and Psychopaths’ Inability to Grieve

“…With respect to the past, difficulties with emotional memory are common in psychopaths. They struggle to recall emotions revealed in others’ faces (Ragbeer and Burnette, 2013), and downplay the autobiographical significance of emotionally charged events from their past (Burrow et al ., 2014; Lanciano, Curci, and Basile, 2019). With respect to the future, despite the popular image of psychopaths as prudent, or even cunning geniuses (think Hannibal Lecter), psychopaths tend instead to be reckless, impulsive, and obsessive in their focus on very immediate goals or ends.…”