Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a constellation of affective,
interpersonal, lifestyle and antisocial features whose antecedents can be identified in a …

Introduction Core psychopathy is characterized by grandiosity, callousness,
manipulativeness, and lack of remorse, empathy, and guilt. It is often comorbid with conduct …

In the past quarter century, emotion dysregulation has emerged as an increasingly important
construct for understanding diverse adjustment problems in childhood, adolescence, and …

The age-old philosophical, biological, and social debate over the basic nature of humans as
being “universally selfish” or “universally good” continues today highlighting sharply …

There is a growing literature on biological explanations of antisocial and criminal behavior.
This paper provides a selective review of three specific biological factors–psychophysiology …

Across cultures humans care deeply about morality and create institutions, such as criminal
courts, to enforce social norms. In such contexts, judges and juries engage in complex social …

Neuroimaging studies over the last two decades have begun to specify the neurobiological
correlates of psychopathy, a personality disorder that is strongly related to criminal offending …

Psychopathy is a personality type characterized by both callous emotional dysfunction and
deviant behavior that affects society in the form of actions that harm others. Historically …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous lack of empathy, impulsive
antisocial behavior, and criminal recidivism. Studies of brain structure and function in …

Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies of gray matter volume (GMV) in psychopathy have
produced inconsistent results and few have been replicated. Therefore, to clarify GMV …