Sentences with phrase «of psychopathic individuals»

Given the present findings, one interpretation of such findings is that the heightened threat sensitivity associated with high anxiety may compensate for the weak response modulation of psychopathic individuals.

Not exact matches

«One interpretation is that psychopathic individuals are attracted to these topics because they revolve around issues of power, authority, and conflict that they might find particularly attractive,» the study authors note.

Borderland insanity, crankiness, insane temperament, loss of mental balance, psychopathic degeneration (to use a few of the many synonyms by which it has been called), has certain peculiarities and liabilities which, when combined with a superior quality of intellect in an individual, make it more probable that he will make his mark and affect his age, than if his temperament were less neurotic.

And now, as a more concrete example of heads 4 and 5, in fact of all our heads together, and of the irrational extreme to which a psychopathic individual may go in the line of bodily austerity, I will quote the sincere Suso's account of his own self - tortures.

Dirk Geurts, researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at Radboudumc: «We carried out tests on 14 convicted psychopathic individuals, and 20 non-criminal individuals, half of whom had a high score on the psychopathy scale.

Individuals with low levels of psychopathic traits showed no changes in response time.

By contrast, in individuals with low levels of psychopathic traits this lie - related brain activity increased.

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.

The difference may be due to how the brains of individuals with high and low levels of psychopathic traits process lies.

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.»

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.

Individuals with psychopathic tendencies learn to lie more quickly than those without psychopathic traits, according to a new study of college students in Hong Kong.

The distinction is important, researchers say, because it suggests that the brains of high - psychopathic individuals may function differently than others.

Others suggested that despite the results of the study, it remained unclear whether the experience of empathy by these psychopathic individuals was the same as that of controls, and also questioned the possibility of devising therapeutic interventions that would make the empathic reactions more automatic.

While reduced empathic brain activation relative to the controls was observed in the control condition, the empathic reaction of the psychopathic offenders initiated the same way it did for controls when they were instructed to empathize with the harmed individual, and the area of the brain relating to pain was activated when the psychopathic offenders were asked to imagine how the harmed individual felt.

In conclusion, this study was the first to adopt a linear regression approach in addition to the simple analysis of fMRI contrasts to directly investigate the neural mechanisms involved in economic decision making in individuals with varying psychopathic traits.

However, the coordinates presented here can serve as non-independent regions of interest for future studies in AB, conduct disorder or in individuals with AB or antisocial / psychopathic tendencies.

We show that in individuals with psychopathic tendencies, the functioning of the amygdala in stimulus - reinforcement learning and of the ventromedial frontal cortex in the representation of reinforcement expectancies is impaired.

Although most studies revealing differences between CD / CU + and CD / CU - individuals in empathic abilities have used parent - or teacher - report measures of CU traits, it is important to note that over 130 published studies have used self - report measures of CU traits or psychopathic traits in children and adolescents (see Frick et al. 2014).

Like all personality disorders, a psychopathic personality can not be diagnosed before the age of 18 (American Psychiatric Association 1994); however, individuals can show psychopathic traits before this age.

The lack of concern for Realtors makes the business seem a psychopathic entity, a corporation without concern for real life individual issues.