Paul B The Aftermath Foundation Graduate Student Research Award for 2023 has been awarded to Silvana Kaouar, a doctoral candidate at the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. This award is given to honor those graduate students who conduct and publish research consistent with the Mission of the Foundation. Silvana Kaouar received the … Read more
We have recently added an Ask the Expert response from Dr. Scott Lilienfeld, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at the Department of Psychology, Emory University. He discusses how he got involved in the area of psychopathy research, what are some common misconceptions about psychopathy, what defines ‘successful’ psychopaths, and other topics. Go to ‘Resources’ to find the … Read more
Written by Dr. Adelle Forth and the Research Committee What might be an effective intervention approach with children who exhibit psychopathic-like features? Kochanska and colleagues (2013) have been focusing on callous-unemotional (CU) features, which include low levels of guilt and empathy, disregard for rules, shallow emotions, and fearlessness. CU features in children are predictive of … Read more
Written by Sandra Michels and the Research Committee Hamilton, Hiatt-Racer, and Newman (2015) developed a new theory of psychopathy by expanding on Baskin-Sommers et al.‘s attention bottleneck theory and Newman’s response modulation hypothesis, which are theories that predict that psychopathic traits are caused by attention processing deficits. The new theory is basically an expansion of … Read more
My name is Kai Li Chung and I am a PhD student from the School of Life, Sport, and Social Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom. As part of my PhD course, I am undertaking a research project for my thesis, under the supervision of Dr. Kathy Charles. This is a piece of research … Read more
The Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation’s 2013 Annual Report is now available! We hope you’ll enjoy reading about all the things we’ve accomplished so far!
