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Recent
Journal Articles on the Psychopath
Assortment
of recent research papers that demonstrate the depth
and diversity of the work being done on the
psychopath.
Violence viewed by psychopathic
murderers
May
2003 Nature short communication.
Selective
Attention and Executive Function
Deficits among Psychopaths
2003 Aggressive
Behavior article. Shows that psychopaths don’t perform
as well
as normal controls on some specific tests of mental function.
Shows
that their brains must be “different” than normal human beings,
an old
idea upheld by modern research.
Emotional Deficiency and Psychopathy
2000 Behavioral
Science and the Law article, summarizing the history
of the
concept of the psychopath from Pinel in the 19th century through
Anti-Social
Personality Disorder, and listing the major pattern of emotional
deficiency
long noted.
Law and the Confinement of Psychopaths
2000 Behavioral Science and the Law article, covering American and
British approaches to civil commitment of psychopaths and other personality
disorders, as a way of controlling violent behavior. Covers the background
of the issues, outlining the legal arguments that come up again and again.
Current attachment of incarcerated offenders varying in degree of psychopathy
Finds that more psychopathic subjects are dismissive of attachment relationships to other people.
Faking Psychopathy? An Examination of Response Styles in Antisocial Youth
2002 Journal of Personality Assessment article. Finds that many antisocial youths are
identifying with a delinquent subculture, not truly asocial psychopaths.
Behavioral Inhibition Deficits in Juvenile Psychopaths
2000 Aggressive Behavior article. Finds specific deficiencies in juvenile psychopath frontal lobe function.
2003 Philosophical Psychology article. Covers “Mad or Bad?” debate.