Don't stand so close to me: Psychopathy and the regulation of interpersonal distance

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Vieira, Joana B ^a,b   Marsh, Abigail A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Approach avoidance; Coldheartedness; Interpersonal distance; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY REVISED; PSYCHOPATHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 84893011680     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00907     Document Type: Article

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