Testing Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis with psychopathic individuals: Risk takers or risk averse?

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 538-543

  Schmitt, William A ^a   Brinkley, Chad A ^a   Newman, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREDICTION; RISK;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; PRISONERS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RISK-TAKING; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0032813013     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.108.3.538     Document Type: Article

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