No skin off my back: Retribution deficits in psychopathic motives for punishment

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 869-889

  Aharoni, Eyal ^a   Weintraub, Lisa L ^b   Fridlund, Alan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; OFFENDER; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPATHY; PUNISHMENT; RECIDIVISM;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CRIME; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; PUNISHMENT; STUDENTS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 38349002574     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.790     Document Type: Article

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