The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain

By Chris Beeley. 2006

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Self-Control as an Executive Function (2007, background): “There is now a wealth of empirical evidence linking deficits of the brain to various emotional problems, to behavioral disorders, and to certain personality traits (Blair et al., 2005; Damasio, 1994; Ishikawa & Raine, 2003; Moffitt, 1990; Raine, 1993, 2002; Raine et al., 2005).”
Modulation of emotion by cognition and cognition by emotion (2007, background): “, 2006), the representation of the stimuli necessary for goal-directed processing competes with the representation of the emotional distractors, reducing their activity, so that there is less information to, and corresponding activity within, the amygdala (Blair et al., 2005).”
Psychopathy, reactive aggression, and precarious proclamations: A review of behavioral, cognitive, and biological research. (2011, background): “Blair et al. (2005) described a mechanism by which abnormal classical and operant conditioning lead to a selective increase in antisocial and instrumentally aggressive behaviors.”
The Antisocial Brain: Psychopathy Matters: A Structural MRI Investigation of Antisocial Male Violent Offenders (2012, background): “This subgroup meets diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder with callous-unemotional traits in childhood(12) and for the syndrome of psychopathy as defined by the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R)(13) in adulthood (ASPD P).(11,14) Men with ASPD P begin offending earlier,(15) engage in a broader”
Evolutionary theory and psychopathy (2011, result): “Most studies of adults have found that there is no correlation between psychopathy and intelligence in adults (Blair et al., 2005) or children (Loney, Frick, Ellis, & McCoy, 1998); this is, notably, in contrast to findings in antisocial individuals more generally which tend to find intelligence defi”
The QCAE: A Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (2009, background): “These difficulties could be strongly enhanced by the impulsive lifestyle and poor behavioral controls present in individuals with high levels of secondary psychopathy (Blair et al., 2005; Viding, 2004).”
Psychopathy as a clinical and empirical construct. (2008, background): “In most studies, it is the total PCL-R or PCL: SV score that is important, but in some tasks the psychopathy dimensions are differentially—and meaningfully—related to brain function (e.g., Blair et al. 2005, Kiehl 2006).”
Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Process Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work (2015, neutral): “Relatedly, psychopaths have a depressed response to cortisol: they do not feel the stress of risk-taking the same way as others (Blair et al., 2005).”