Studies on the association between psychopathy and decision-making in laboratory tasks
have revealed mixed results. These might be due to an insufficient consideration of the …

Purpose Impaired emotional learning is one of the hallmark features of psychopathy. The
abnormal processing of cues of reward and punishment, and its impact in decision‐making …

Autonomic response to rewards and punishments was assessed in incarcerated
psychopaths and nonpsychopaths during passive avoidance learning. Based on behavioral …

The relationships of psychopathy, therapeutic change, and violent recidivism were
examined in a sample of 152 high-risk violent offenders treated in a high-intensity violence …

One of the most pressing issues within corrections today is the presence of inmates who are
unresponsive to authority, repeatedly violate institutional rules, victimize within the …

Cognitive and affective neuroscientists have made substantial progress specifying
mechanisms underlying diverse processes, such as decision making and self-regulation …

Substance-dependent individuals (SDIs) often show neurocognitive deficits in decision-
making, such that their choices are biased toward the greatest immediate reward rather than …

Postrelease recidivism data were collected on 137 male inmates released 1 to 72 months
after completing the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) in follow …

The current study examined the relationship between psychopathy, intelligence and two
variables describing the conviction history (length of conviction and number of prior …

Social cognition about violence was assessed using both implicit and explicit measurements
in a group of offenders who had committed murder and in a control group of offenders who …