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psychopathy

[ UK /sa‍ɪkˈə‍ʊpəθi/ ]
[ US /saɪˈkɑpəθi/ ]
NOUN
  1. any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

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  • The first question is one that cannot be answered with total certainty but, like most personality traits, psychopathy does in general seem to be inborn and genetically inherited.
  • Much of the seminal work in major areas of forensic psychology, including risk assessment, psychopathy, eyewitness testimony, victimology, credibility assessment, and criminal behaviour, has been done here.
  • This CAT has seriously Psychopathy, KEEP OFF unless you are a Psychopathy Specialist.
  • By contrast, in someone with anti-social personality disorder, psychopathy, the disorder is the person, the whole person.
  • To repeat, neuroses, neurasthenia, psychasthenia, and the various forms of neuropathy and psychopathy are dysgenic factors. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • Questions of dangerousness and criminal propensity, and suspicion that the youth fits the profile of juvenile psychopathy, may arise.
  • And in many respects, psychopathy is the flipside of anxiety disorder, and so potentially we're imagining that there may be treatments that will allow us to boost that amygdala response, and so help these individuals out.
  • These statements, and others like them, were designed to measure, respectively, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and a person's sense of how meaningful life is.
  • The PCL-R was designed to discriminate psychopathic individuals from other criminals -- a job it does very well -- but this does not mean that criminality is essential to the construct of psychopathy .... Kim Cranston: Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide
  • The amygdala is certainly involved in the forms of fear and empathic processing that are impaired in individuals with psychopathy.
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