Sentences with phrase «high levels of psychopathic traits»

This indicates that adolescents with high levels of CU traits show a pattern of «inverted» social reward, in which being cruel is enjoyable and being kind is not, much like adults with high levels of psychopathic traits [13].

Analyses with CU traits indicate that adolescents with high levels of CU traits show a pattern of «inverted» social reward, in a similar manner to adults with high levels of psychopathic traits [13].

The researchers caution that as all participants in this study were university students, further research is needed to be able to generalize the findings to individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits in other populations.

Specifically, adults with high levels of psychopathic traits display an «inverted» pattern of social reward, in which they report that being cruel towards others is enjoyable and being kind is not.

Finally, children with persistently high levels of psychopathic traits exhibited higher levels of conduct problems and proactive aggression at follow - up than those with unstable or stable low psychopathic traits.

We also hypothesized that CU traits would show a pattern of «inverted» social reward, in which adolescents with high levels of these traits report more enjoyment of negative social potency and less enjoyment of prosocial interactions, in line with our previous findings from adults with high levels of psychopathic traits [12,13].

Individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits are better at learning to lie than individuals who show few psychopathic traits, according to a study published in the open access journal Translational Psychiatry.

Even more alarming research claims that one in five corporate leaders qualifies as having a high level of psychopathic traits.

Thus, lying requires a series of processes in the brain including attention, working memory, inhibitory control and conflict resolution which we found to be reduced in individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits.

The researchers found that following the training exercise, individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits had significantly shorter response times when being prompted to lie than during the initial task.

To find out if individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits were better at learning how to lie than others, the researchers recruited 52 students from The University of Hong Kong — 23 who showed low levels of psychopathic traits and 29 who showed high levels of psychopathic traits based on a questionnaire that can be used to assess psychopathy in a non-clinical setting.

Dr. Tatia Lee and Dr. Robin Shao of the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at The University of Hong Kong found that after practicing a task that involved giving a series of truthful or untruthful responses about whether or not they recognized people in a collection of photographs, individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits were able to lie much more quickly than before practice.

«Lying requires a series of processes in the brain including attention, working memory, inhibitory control, and conflict resolution which we found to be reduced in individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits,» she said.

The findings suggest that individuals with higher levels of psychopathic traits can learn to lie quickly even if they don't necessarily show any «natural» capacity to lie.

Finger EC, Marsh AA, Blair KS, Reid ME, Sims C, Ng P. Disrupted reinforcement signaling in the orbitofrontal cortex and caudate in youths with conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder and a high level of psychopathic traits.

This finding is in line with earlier research reporting that higher levels of psychopathic traits are associated with higher levels of self - reported delinquency [4] and that the involvement in delinquency increases considerably during adolescence [19].