Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Industrial And Organizational Psychology, Twin Study, Dangerous Offender

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Psychopathy: personality disorder defined by a collection of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral characteristics. Includes manipulation, lack of remorse or empathy, impulsivity, and antisocial behaviors: dominant, selfish, manipulative, engage in impulsive and antisocial acts, feel no remorse or shame for behavior that have negative impacts on others. Descriptions of psychopathy exist in most cultures: alaskan inuits kulangeta . Harvey cleckley the mask of sanity: provided one of the most comprehensive clinical descriptions of psychopaths, described 16 features. Good intelligence, social charm, absence of delusions and anxiety. Lack of remorse, untruthfulness, unresponsiveness in interpersonal relations. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior, unreliability, failure to follow any life plan. Most popular method of assessing psychopathy in adults. Strongly related to predatory violence, emotional-processing deficits, and poor treatment response: factor 2 combination of unstable and socially deviant traits. Strongly related to reoffending, substance abuse, lack of education, and poor family background.