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

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

It is well known that utterances convey a great deal of information about the speaker in
addition to their semantic content. One such type of information consists of cues to the …

Psychopathy is commonly viewed as a personality disorder defined by a cluster of
interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and antisocial traits and behaviours, including grandiosity …

The question of whether child and adolescent mental disorders are best classified using
dimensional or categorical approaches is a contentious one that has equally profound …

Abstract J. Skeem and DJ Cooke (2010) asserted that Hare and Neumann consider
criminality to be an essential component of the psychopathy construct. The assertion …

Accumulating research suggests that psychopathy can be disaggregated into low-anxious
primary and high-anxious secondary variants, and this research may be important for …

Psychopathy is an important clinical construct that has been studied for more than 200 years
and has exploded in recent years as a guiding explanatory concept for a range of antisocial …

The construct of psychopathy is becoming increasingly more important to the clinical and
criminal justice systems and to society in general. The dominant instrument for the clinical …

Extant research has highlighted meaningful distinctions in the correlates, developmental
trajectories, and etiologies of physically aggressive (AGG) as compared to non-aggressive …