PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Lust Murder, Psychopathy Checklist, Homicide

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Beth Visser

Document Summary

Psychopathy: a personality disorder defined by a collection of interpersonal, Psychology 3350 chapter 11: psychopaths affective, and behavioural characteristics, including manipulation, lack of remorse or empathy, impulsivity, and antisocial behaviours. Assessment of psychopathy: the most popular method of assessing psychopathy in adults is the hare. These three factors are: arrogant and deceitful interpersonal style, deficient affective experience. It will likely be difficult for psychopaths to report on specific emotions if they have not experienced these emotions: two of the most widely used self-report scales are the psychopathic personality. Psychopaths in the community: supervisors who scored higher on psychopathic traits were more likely to use a. Lassez-faire leadership style and less likely to use a positive leadership style. Psychopathy and sexual violence: psychopathy is associated with violent offences, psychopaths engaged in significantly more violent offences than nonpsychopaths but. Psychopathy and treatment: treatment was associated with a reduction in violent recidivism among nonpsychopaths but an increase in violent recidivism among psychopaths.