The association between motivations for violence, the victim-offender relationship, and psychopathic traits in violent youth

Flight, Jillian

doi:10.22215/etd/2004-05893

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“…Forth et al (2003) reported that the PCL:YV has good psychometric properties including high interrater reliability and good internal consistency with Cronbach’s alphas that range from .85 to .94 depending on the setting. The PCL:YV is similar to the PCL-R in its psychometric properties (Flight, 2004; Forth et al, 2003).…”

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Speech of young offenders as a function of their psychopathic tendencies.

Pitchford¹,

Arnell²

2019

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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The purpose of this study was to analyse young psychopathic offenders’ speech compared with controls and to determine whether it was dissimilar. An examination of two subsets of disfluencies in speech was conducted (i.e., filled pauses and discourse markers) to explore their disfluent language. Transcripts of Psychopathy Checklist–Revised Youth Version (PCL:YV) interviews from a sample of young offenders were analysed using Wmatrix software (Rayson, 2003, 2008). The young offenders were divided into a high psychopathy group (HP; n = 13) and a low psychopathy group (LP; n = 13). HP participants included more words relating to basic needs (i.e., money, sex) in their speech than their counterparts, but not fewer words relating to social needs (i.e., family, kin), which could reflect viewing the world in a more unemotional and instrumental way by HP individuals compared with LP participants. HP participants had fewer total disfluencies and filled pauses (i.e., uh, um) in their speech than LP participants. However, the usage of discourse markers (i.e., I mean, you know, like) was similar for HP and LP participants. Like adult psychopaths, the young offenders with higher psychopathic tendencies tended to use more basic needs words in their speech. Reduced filled pause use, which has been found to be related to individual’s self-consciousness, may reflect less self-monitoring in psychopaths when they are engaging in secondary tasks (i.e., tasks that will not offer rewards). These findings provide further support that individual differences can be reflected by characteristics in speech.

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“…Transcripts used in the present study were derived from interviews of young offenders by Flight (2004) for analysis. There were originally 51 male participants in the study by Flight and colleagues, but speech was recorded for a smaller subset of 27 interviews and used for analysis in the present study.…”

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Speech of young offenders as a function of their psychopathic tendencies.

Pitchford¹,

Arnell²

2019

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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“…Transcripts used in this study were derived from interviews of individuals recruited in a previous study by Flight (2004). Flight's participants were sixty adolescent males who ranged from 16 to 20 years old (M= 17, SD=0.9) when interviewed (see Appendix C for descriptive statistics).…”

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The Language Dimension of Psychopathy: From Signal Analysis to Social Perception

Sokolov¹

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Psychopaths have long been associated with a unique ability to manipulate others (Hare, 1999). To shed more light on language production in psychopathy two studies of language production were performed comparing content and fluency under different motivational and difficulty conditions. It was observed that individuals high in psychopathy (HP) were less fluent but maintained a more complex lexicon, than their low psychopathy counterparts, when under high cognitive load and low motivation. Yet when the HP individuals were under low cognitive load and high motivation, they were more fluent, but produced less complex lexicon.Furthermore, it was found that the HP group produced more emotional language in both conditions. The results suggest that HP individuals' linguistic abilities are inherently related to motivation. Results are discussed in terms of Theory of Mind and emotion perception processes.iii

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The association between motivations for violence, the victim-offender relationship, and psychopathic traits in violent youth

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Speech of young offenders as a function of their psychopathic tendencies.

Speech of young offenders as a function of their psychopathic tendencies.

The Language Dimension of Psychopathy: From Signal Analysis to Social Perception

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