PSY397H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychopathy Checklist, Psychopathic Personality Inventory, Psychopathy
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Psychopaths have been called intraspecies predators-seek vulnerable victims by charming them or use of violence and intimidation to achieve their goals-prey on others for their own needs, lack conscience and feelings. Psychopathy-personality disorder defined by a collection of personal, affective and behavioral characteristics including manipulation, lack of remorse, impulsivity and antisocial behavior. P exists in most cultures-inuit use term kulangeta to describe this individuals lies, cheats, sex with other women, does not go hunting-(cid:498)somebody would push him off the ice when nobody was looking(cid:499) Henry cleckly psychiatrist-provided one of the most comprehensive clinical. Hare psychopathy checklist-revised-the most popular method of assessing p- developed by robert hare. Pcl-r s 20 item rating scale that uses semi structured interview and review of file info to asses interpersonal (grandiosity, manipulativnes) affective (lack of remorse, shallow emotions) and behavioral (impulsivity, antisocial acts) features of p.
