Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by interpersonal manipulation and
callousness, and reckless and impulsive antisocial behavior. It is often seen as a disorder in …

Psychopathy is a disorder associated with antisocial behavior and deficits in responding to
emotional stimuli, particularly fear-related stimuli. This research demonstrates that these …

Despite historical conviction that the psychopath is low‐anxious, contemporary research
remains equivocal. An examination of the literature suggests that the lack of consensus may …

(The Mask of Sanity, 1941/1982), strongly encouraged the view that this form of antisocial
behavior can be attributed to a deficit. Lykken's (1957) seminal paper articulating what has …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by emotional deficits and a failure to
inhibit impulsive behavior and is often subdivided into “primary” and “secondary” …

Although the hypothesis that psychopathic individuals are characterized by a reduced
capacity for experiencing anxiety is central to many theories of psychopathy, most prior …

BACKGROUND: Psychopathic behavior is generally attributed to a fundamental, amygdala-
mediated deficit in fearlessness that undermines social conformity. An alternative view is that …

Psychopathy is a complex disorder of unknown etiology. Clinically, psychopathic individuals
are striking for their shallow affect, lack of meaningful relationships, irresponsibility …

Our previous research demonstrated that psychopathy-related fear deficits involve
abnormalities in attention that undermine sensitivity to peripheral information. In the present …

The role of the two dimensions of psychopathy—dispositional fearlessness (theorized to
reflect variations in reactivity of the brain's defensive system) and externalizing proneness …