Carver and White's (1994) BIS scale and Lykken's (1995) primary psychopath: A reply to Newman and Malterer (2009)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 678-681

  Poythress, Norman G ^a   Skeem, Jennifer L ^b   Lilienfeld, Scott O ^c   Douglas, Kevin S ^d   Edens, John F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BIS scale; Gray's theory; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249162864     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.038     Document Type: Review

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