Fascinating. Thank you. It's too bad the Sereny was bad -- that looked really interesting.
A lot of psychologists are currently looking at the neurobiology of psychopaths -- Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470977453.ch3/summary) looks at "Adrenal and Gonadal Hormone Levels; Implications of the Hormone Data for Physical Health; Psychosocial Maturity Inventory PMI; sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG); free estrogen index (FEI); index of hyperandrogenisim (IHA); Child Health and Illness Profile (CHIP)."
Others are looking at personality traits, like The relations between subjective well-being, psychopathy, and the NEO big five personality traits (https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/30458), which notes in the abstract: "Psychopathy was associated with high levels of depression and negative affect and low levels of life satisfaction, happiness, and positive affect. Scores on the two psychopathy measures (LSRP and SRP-III) accounted for significant portions of the variance in depression (16.6%), negative affect (18.5%), life satisfaction (13.8%), happiness (6.1-20%) and positive affect (11.3%). However, psychopathy failed to account for variance in these measures of well-being above and beyond the variance accounted for by the Big Five personality traits. These results are consistent with the position that personality disorders can be conceptualized as a constellation of extreme levels of normative personality traits." -- But I wonder of the cause and effect of psychopathy and these personality traits. Investigating associations between empathy, morality and psychopathic personality traits in the general population (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911004156) looks at the diminished capacity of psychopaths to be able to perceive and empathize with fearful faces, as well as happy stories and "lower propensity to feel empathic concern and less difficulty in making decisions on moral dilemmas." But again -- does the psychopathy cause the diminished capacity or does the diminished capacity cause the psychopathy?
Finally, there's a lot of research on resilience as part of a person's bioloy, and that one could look at psychopathy as an adaptive strategy. What makes some people more resilient to negative outcomes? Is it possible that psychopathy is an adaptive strategy, "a form of pathology resulting from accumulated mutations"? Evolutionary theory and psychopathy (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359178911000413) looks like a pretty cool paper.
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Date: 2011-12-13 05:49 am (UTC)A lot of psychologists are currently looking at the neurobiology of psychopaths -- Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470977453.ch3/summary) looks at "Adrenal and Gonadal Hormone Levels; Implications of the Hormone Data for Physical Health; Psychosocial Maturity Inventory PMI; sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG); free estrogen index (FEI); index of hyperandrogenisim (IHA); Child Health and Illness Profile (CHIP)."
Others are looking at personality traits, like The relations between subjective well-being, psychopathy, and the NEO big five personality traits (https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/30458), which notes in the abstract: "Psychopathy was associated with high levels of depression and negative affect and low levels of life satisfaction, happiness, and positive affect. Scores on the two psychopathy measures (LSRP and SRP-III) accounted for significant portions of the variance in depression (16.6%), negative affect (18.5%), life satisfaction (13.8%), happiness (6.1-20%) and positive affect (11.3%). However, psychopathy failed to account for variance in these measures of well-being above and beyond the variance accounted for by the Big Five personality traits. These results are consistent with the position that personality disorders can be conceptualized as a constellation of extreme levels of normative personality traits." -- But I wonder of the cause and effect of psychopathy and these personality traits. Investigating associations between empathy, morality and psychopathic personality traits in the general population (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911004156) looks at the diminished capacity of psychopaths to be able to perceive and empathize with fearful faces, as well as happy stories and "lower propensity to feel empathic concern and less difficulty in making decisions on moral dilemmas." But again -- does the psychopathy cause the diminished capacity or does the diminished capacity cause the psychopathy?
Finally, there's a lot of research on resilience as part of a person's bioloy, and that one could look at psychopathy as an adaptive strategy. What makes some people more resilient to negative outcomes? Is it possible that psychopathy is an adaptive strategy, "a form of pathology resulting from accumulated mutations"? Evolutionary theory and psychopathy (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359178911000413) looks like a pretty cool paper.