Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment Mapping the Association of Global Executive Functioning Onto Diverse Measures of Psychopathic Traits
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Mapping the association of global executive functioning onto diverse measures of psychopathic traits.
Psychopathic individuals display a callous-coldhearted approach to interpersonal and affective situations and engage in impulsive and antisocial behaviors. Despite early conceptualizations suggesting that psychopathy is related to enhanced cognitive functioning, research examining executive functioning (EF) in psychopathy has yielded few such findings. It is possible that some psychopathic trai...
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