Sentences with phrase «high levels of psychopathic traits in»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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, the corresponding authors said: «The stark contrast between individuals with high and low levels of psychopathic traits in lying performance following two training sessions is remarkable, given that there were no significant differences in lying performance between the two groups prior to training.»

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.

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].

Furthermore, low levels of serotonin in the basolateral amygdala are related to reductions in the conditioned fear response — a response which is reliably impaired in adults with high levels of psychopathic personality (CU traits)[16], [17].

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].

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.

Furthermore, people with high levels of CU traits (psychopathic personality) have been shown to have three specific cognitive and emotional deficits; a poor conditioned fear response, reduced ability to recognise fear, and deficits in stimulus - reinforcement tasks (see Moul et al. [12] for a review).