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Influence of Psychopathic Traits on Desistance Factors From Criminal Behavior During Transition to Adulthood

SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Aug 22

Persistence of psychopathic traits and related offending in young people, turning points have little impact: tinyurl.com/4emmb23s

This study examined the evolution of psychopathic traits from adolescence to adulthood over a 10-year period, focusing on their impact on delinquency. It also assessed whether psychosocial maturati...

Callous‐Unemotional Trait Prosocial Limitations Are Moderated by Cognitive Control Impacting Theory of Mind in Adolescents

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Young people with callous-unemotional traits who are easily cognitively overloaded show less prosocial behavior, but those not affected by cognitive demands don't show such reduction: tinyurl.com/ycyac5en

Although callous-unemotional (CU) traits are linked with antisocial behavior, affected youth still engage in some prosocial behaviors. The factors contributing to prosocial behavior in these youth ar...

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jun 29

Great discussion by Eva Kimonis and colleague of a paper discussing reflections of health carers about "difficult-to-treat" veteran clients, touching on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits - a call to work on this: tinyurl.run/aZU1pe @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jun 29

New meta analysis shows that (mainly secondary) psychopathy is related to lower task performance, worse organizational citizenship behavior and more counterproductive work behavior: tinyurl.run/xGe8ow

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Parenting and Peer Victimization in the Development of Callous-Unemotional Behaviors: Moderation by Irritability and Basal Cortisol - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jun 26

Not peer victimization but harsh parenting found to be related to higher CU traits, especially in those highly irritable, and lower cortisol related to higher CU traits: tinyurl.com/4y49dkt6

The present study tested three aims regarding the socializing roles of peer victimization and harsh parenting in the development of callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors. First, we investigated whether p...

Parenting Under Pressure: How Child Limited Prosocial Emotions Shape the Stress-Warmth Connection - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jun 27

Less warm parenting due to more parental stress seems to be aggravated by callous-unemotional traits in young people with conduct problems - very relevant and needs replication in a larger sample: tinyurl.com/mws4bx7r

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology - Parental warmth is a core intervention target for children with Limited Prosocial Emotions (LPE) whose conduct problems persist despite...

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jun 27

Higher callous-unemotional traits in young people with conduct problems are related to more gun violence, which is mediated by maternal hostility (but not by parenting practices nor maternal warmth): tinyurl.com/4yv3aw92

Signaling Molecules and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Young People: A Systematic Review and Methodological and Future Considerations

SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Jun 16

Great review on the role of molecules for callous-unemotional traits: tinyurl.com/53nkmeu7

Burgeoning evidence supports multiple developmental pathways to antisocial behavior. However, a comprehensive mechanistic understanding is lacking, an…

Network structures of psychopathy: unidimensional and multidimensional approaches

SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Network analysis for the PCL-R: finding both, a one factor and a four-factor-structure; Lack of Empathy showed strongest connection to all four factors: tinyurl.com/5fmcx87j

Network analyses offer a viable alternative approach to understanding the nature of mental disorders. The current study was conducted to advance our u…

The Role of Structural Brain Networks in Psychopathy and Its Relation to Externalizing Behaviors

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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Structural connectome-based analysis of young adults showed positive associations with social-affective, language and reward processing regions, and negative associations with attention modulation regions - BUT only based on the short dark triad measure! tinyurl.com/2due9wnb

We investigated the structural connectivity associated with psychopathy and its relation to externalizing behaviors in 82 young adults using connectome-based prediction model with leave-one-out cross...

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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Women with lethal violent convictions and severe mental disorder shown to have lower PCL-R total and interpersonal facet scores, and higher arousal and planning related to their offense: tinyurl.com/mwxffbzz

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Multi-model ensemble framework for analysis of psychopathic traits in heinous crime convicts - Journal of Computational Social Science

SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Jun 12

To be expected coming at some point: a suggestion for an algorithm deriving "psychopathy" from 68 pieces of information (parental, interpersonal, personality, psychological, socio-demographic, prison behavior) - 87% accuracy in matching PCL-R levels: tinyurl.com/mr334bp2

The correlation between psychiatric disorder and criminality has been the subject of intense debate and scrutiny in recent years, in light of multiple violent incidents in India and other nations. To ...

Associations among Caregiving Helplessness, Parenting Stress and Child Callous-Unemotional Traits in a Clinic-Referred Sample - Child Psychiatry & Human Development

SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Maternal parenting stress and paternal helplessness found to be related to higher child callous-unemotional traits (controlling for conduct problems): tinyurl.com/58wzy5hp

This study explored whether caregiving helplessness and parenting stress were associated with callous-unemotional (CU) traits in a clinic-referred sample of 92 children (3–9 years). Mothers (N = 92) a...

Voters’ Attributions of Psychopathic Traits to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2020 Trump Impeachment Trial| Europe’s Journal of Psychology

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · May 31

New study by colleagues from our department shows how voters varying in authoritarianism vary in how much psychopathic traits they assigned to candidates for presidency: ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ej...

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Emily C. Kemp, Ph.D. @emilyckemp.bsky.social · May 12

Such an honor to receive the Postdoc Award at the Early Career Event for @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social & @ssspstudents.bsky.social last Friday and even more special that Dr. Robert Hare was in attendance! HUGE thank you to the planning & awards committees!

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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · May 12

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