Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in everyday life: Results from a large community survey

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Lilienfeld, Scott O ^a   Latzman, Robert D ^b   Watts, Ashley L ^a   Smith, Sarah F ^a   Dutton, Kevin ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fearlessness; Leadership; Personality; Psychopathy; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904728747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00740     Document Type: Article

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