Cleckley's psychopaths: Revisited

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-87

  Crego, Cristina ^a   Widiger, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleckley; Personality traits; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALTRUISM; ANGER; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOLDNESS; CLECKLEY CRITERIA; COMPETENCE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRUELTY; DEPRESSION; DUTIFULNESS; EMOTION; EXCITEMENT-SEEKING; EXTRAVERSION; FANTASY; FEARLESSNESS; FEMALE; GREGARIOUSNESS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MALE; MODESTY; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPATHY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; SELF-DISCIPLINE; STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS; TENDER-MINDEDNESS; TRUST; VULNERABILITY; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; INTELLIGENCE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84952980182     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/abn0000130     Document Type: Article

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