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

We provide an overview of the neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy. Cognitive
and affective-emotional processing deficits are associated with abnormal brain structure and …

The development of the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R; RD Hare, 2003) has
fueled intense clinical interest in the construct of psychopathy. Unfortunately, a side effect of …

Although psychopathy usually is treated as a unitary construct, a seminal theory posits that
there are 2 variants: Primary psychopathy is underpinned by an inherited affective deficit …

The current study used model-based cluster analyses to determine if there are 2 distinct
variants of adolescents (ages 11–18) high on callous-unemotional (CU) traits that differ on …

The clinical and research literatures on psychopathy have identified an emotion paradox:
Psychopaths display normal appraisal but impaired use of emotion cues. Using RD Hare's …

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in antisocial youth have been associated with deficits in the
processing of emotionally distressing stimuli in a number of past studies. In the current study …

The authors examined the reliability of facial affect processing deficits found in psychopathic
individuals (R. Blair et al., 2004) and whether they could be modified by attentional set. One …

Deficient emotional experience is recognized as one of the central features of psychopathy
and an impressive body of empirical findings regarding emotion processing in psychopathy …

Purpose. Psychopathy has been shown to be related to the onset, frequency, and course of
antisocial behaviour in criminal offenders. The purpose of the present study was to use …