Feature-based attention and conflict monitoring in criminal offenders: Interactive relations of psychopathy with anxiety and externalizing

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 797-806

  Zeier, Joshua D ^a   Newman, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Externalizing; Psychopathy; Response modulation; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; CONFLICT MONITORING TASK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTER INTERFERENCE; EXTERNALIZING; FEATURE BASED MANIPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OFFENDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPATHY CHECKLIST; RESPONSE MODULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; WELSH ANXIETY SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CRIMINALS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WISCONSIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883803294     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033873     Document Type: Article

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