Are fearless dominance traits superfluous in operationalizing psychopathy? Incremental validity and sex differences

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1597-1607

  Murphy, Brett ^a   Lilienfeld, Scott ^a   Skeem, Jennifer ^b   Edens, John F ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boldness; Incremental validity; PPI; Psychopathy; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; FEMALE; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMPULSIVENESS; LIFESTYLE; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPATHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEAR; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHECKLIST; CRIMINALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84957715734     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pas0000288     Document Type: Article

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