Sentences with phrase «psychopathic offenders»

Assessment of emotion and language processing in psychopathic offenders: Results from a dichotic listening task

Numerous studies have demonstrated that passive avoidance learning deficits are more pronounced in low - anxious psychopathic offenders than in high - anxious psychopathic offenders (e.g., Newman, Patterson, Howland, & Nichols, 1990; Newman & Schmitt, 1998).

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.

Set - Congruent Priming Stimuli Normalize the Information Processing of Psychopathic Offenders.

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Many criminal offenders display psychopathic traits, such as antisocial and impulsive behaviour.

Offenders with psychopathic personalities graduated from the program more violent than ever.

Perceptions of treatment among offenders with mental health problems and problematic substance use: The possible relevance of psychopathic personality traits

To our knowledge, most studies using the YPI to examine psychopathic traits are conducted on samples of male offenders, or normative samples.

Adolescents with psychopathic traits often engage in delinquent behaviors earlier, show more versatility in offending, commit more violent crimes, and show higher rates of recidivism than other offenders (Lynam and Gudonis 2005; Skeem and Cauffman 2003; Vincent et al. 2003; Walters 2003).