AJ 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Remorse, Psychopathy, Superficial Charm
18 Aug 2020
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Low activity in gene may lead to aggressive and violent behavior. Abnormal personality traits or emotional maladjustment are the primary causes of crime. All humans have natural drives and urges repressed in the unconscious. Human nature includes instinctual drives that demand gratification. Freud referred to these pleasure seeking drives as the id . The id is restrained by moral and ethiczl codes known as the superego . Children internalize these codes as a result of their attachment to their parents. Adults develop a rational part of their personality known as the ego. The ego mediates between the drives of the id and the restraints of the superego. Collectively and clinically we fere to the study of abnormal. Chief proponent today as a theory of criminal behavior. The pcl-r is the most widly used instrument for the measurement of the psychopathic personality.
