Primary and secondary psychopathic-traits and their relationship to perception and experience of emotion

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 206-212

  Del Gaizo, Ariel L ^a   Falkenbach, Diana M ^a  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect recognition; Affective processing; Emotional experience; Emotional perception; Psychopathic traits; Psychopathy; Psychopathy and emotion; Successful psychopaths

Indexed keywords

EID: 44549085825     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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