The positive side of psychopathy: Emotional detachment in psychopathy and rational decision-making in the ultimatum game

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 451-456

  Osumi, Takahiro ^a,b   Ohira, Hideki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Electrodermal activity; Emotion; Fairness; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954218574     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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