PSYC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Amygdala, Twin Study, Twin
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Arrogant, deceitful interpersonal style (how you relate to others) Deficient affective experience (deficient emotional experience, lack of empathy or remorse) Currently, psychopathy is not part of the dsm-v. you cannot formally be diagnosed with psychopathy. Cannot be diagnosed with psychopathy in children. But can have: conduct disorder behaviour that disregards the rights of others or social norms, as well as aggression to people // animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness/theft, and/or serious violations of rules. Can specify if with limited prosocial emotions . Oppositional defiant disorder: pattern of angry/irritable mood, ************************ Do so by looking at children with overlap with conduct disorder, and adhd! Interpersonal style with conduct disorder, and with adhd there"s that behavioural factor. Comorbidity between two of them are similar with adulthood. Might be getting at something similar to adult psychopathy. Some researchers, though, say how it seems to not tap into that affectional component. Then they were measured on factors that adults with psychopathy scored high on.
