Response monitoring and adjustment: Differential relations with psychopathic traits

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 634-649

  Bresin, Konrad ^a   Sima Finy, M ^a   Sprague, Jenessa ^a   Verona, Edelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ERN; Interpersonal affective traits; Posterror slowing; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED NEGATIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVE ANTISOCIAL TRAIT; IMPULSIVENESS; INTERPERSONAL AFFECTIVE TRAIT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPATHY; RESPONSE TIME; SELF MONITORING; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADAPTATION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905576090     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037229     Document Type: Article

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