Psychopathic personality: Bridging the gap between scientific evidence and public policy

JL Skeem, DLL Polaschek, CJ Patrick… - … Science in the …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Few psychological concepts evoke simultaneously as much fascination and
misunderstanding as psychopathic personality, or psychopathy. Typically, individuals with …

The efficacy of violence prediction: a meta-analytic comparison of nine risk assessment tools.

M Yang, SCP Wong, J Coid - Psychological bulletin, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Actuarial risk assessment tools are used extensively to predict future violence, but previous
studies comparing their predictive accuracies have produced inconsistent findings as a …

Is criminal behavior a central component of psychopathy? Conceptual directions for resolving the debate.

JL Skeem, DJ Cooke - Psychological assessment, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
The development of the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R; RD Hare, 2003) has
fueled intense clinical interest in the construct of psychopathy. Unfortunately, a side effect of …

An examination of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory's nomological network: a meta-analytic review.

JD Miller, DR Lynam - Personality Disorders: Theory, research …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Since its publication, the Psychopathic Personality Inventory and its revision (Lilienfeld &
Andrews, 1996; Lilienfeld & Widows, 2005) have become increasingly popular such that it is …

Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis.

KS Douglas, LS Guy, SD Hart - Psychological bulletin, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
The potential association between psychosis and violence to others has long been debated.
Past research findings are mixed and appear to depend on numerous potential moderators …

A large-scale meta-analysis relating the Hare measures of psychopathy to antisocial conduct

AMR Leistico, RT Salekin, J DeCoster… - Law and human behavior, 2008 - Springer
The present meta-analysis integrated effect sizes from 95 non-overlapping studies (N=
15,826) to summarize the relation between Hare Psychopathy Checklists and antisocial …

The role of warning behaviors in threat assessment: An exploration and suggested typology

J Reid Meloy, J Hoffmann… - … sciences & the law, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of warning behaviors offers an additional perspective in threat assessment.
Warning behaviors are acts which constitute evidence of increasing or accelerating risk …

The lone-actor terrorist and the TRAP-18.

JR Meloy, P Gill - Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
An open source sample of 111 lone-actor terrorists from the United States and Europe were
studied through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18). This …

Mesolimbic dopamine reward system hypersensitivity in individuals with psychopathic traits

JW Buckholtz, MT Treadway, RL Cowan… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Psychopathy is a personality disorder that is strongly linked to criminal behavior. Using [18F]
fallypride positron emission tomography and blood oxygen level–dependent functional …

Psychopathic, not psychopath: taxometric evidence for the dimensional structure of psychopathy.

JF Edens, DK Marcus, SO Lilienfeld… - Journal of abnormal …, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
Although psychopathy is frequently regarded as qualitatively distinct from other conditions,
relatively little research has examined whether psychopaths represent a distinct class of …