Boldness and Its Relation to Psychopathic Personality: Prototypicality Analyses among Forensic Mental Health, Criminal Justice, and Layperson Raters

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 337-349

  Sörman, Karolina ^a   Edens, John F ^b   Smith, Shannon Toney ^b   Clark, John W ^c   Kristiansson, Marianne ^a,d   Svensson, Olof ^e,f  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine   (Sweden)

^e Department of Forensic Chemistry and Genetics   (Sweden)

^f FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

boldness; mental health professionals; prototypicality analysis; psychopathy; triarchic model

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINAL LAW; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; OFFENDER; PERCEPTION;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINALS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84969131692     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000176     Document Type: Article

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