PSYC 331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Victims Family, Twin, Prosocial Behavior
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Psychopathy: personality disorder defined by a collection of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral characteristics, including manipulation, lack of remorse or empathy, impulsivity, and antisocial behaviors. Hervey cleckley (1976): the mask of sanity: positive features: lack of remorse, untruthfulness, unresponsiveness in interpersonal relations, behavioral problems: inadequately motivated antisocial behavior, unreliability, failure to follow any life plan. Hare psychopathy checklist-revised (pcl-r): most popular method assessing psychopathy: semi-structured interview & review of file information to assess interpersonal, affective, and behavioral features of psychopathy. Three-factor model of psychopathy: arrogant and deceitful interpersonal style, deficient affective experience, impulsive and irresponsible behavioral style. Ppi-r: measures psychopathic traits in offender and community samples. Srp: assess psychopathic traits in community samples; four factors: erratic lifestyle, callous affect, interpersonal manipulation, criminal tendencies. Antisocial personality disorder: characterized by a history of behavior in which the rights of others are violated: failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, deceitfulness.
