Taxometric procedures have been used extensively to investigate whether individual
differences in personality and psychopathology are latently dimensional or categorical …

The triarchic model (P atrick, F owles, & K rueger, 2009) was formulated to reconcile
contrasting conceptions of psychopathy reflected in historic writings and contemporary …

Finite mixture models, which are a type of latent variable model, express the overall
distribution of one or more variables as a mixture of a finite number of component …

Few psychological concepts evoke simultaneously as much fascination and
misunderstanding as psychopathic personality, or psychopathy. Typically, individuals with …

Taxometric research methods were developed by Paul Meehl and colleagues to distinguish
between categorical and dimensional models of latent variables. We have conducted a …

Typically, problems in offender management surface when offenders are considered for
release from an institution in which they were initially placed because of some violent …

In this review, we focus on two major influences on current conceptualizations of
psychopathy: one clinical, with its origins largely in the early case studies of Cleckley, and …

The current paper reviews research suggesting that the presence of a callous and
unemotional interpersonal style designates an important subgroup of antisocial and …

The triarchic model of psychopathy (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009) was formulated as an
integrative framework for reconciling differing conceptions of psychopathy. The model …

Previous theory and research on the structural, longitudinal, and genetic nature of
psychopathy have provided strong conceptual and empirical evidence that overt antisociality …