Latest research abstracts
Written by Alicia Spidel and the Research Committee This article by Lyons and colleagues looks at motivations for using Tinder and their associations with the Dark Tetrad of personality traits. Tinder is a location-based, real-time application that allows people to easily and spontaneously communicate and, if desired, meet up. On-line dating applications, like Tinder, are … Read more
Written by Nathalie Gauthier and the Research Committee Ted Bundy is estimated to have sexually assaulted and murdered up to 50 victims, and has also been referred to as an extreme example of a criminal psychopath. He referred to his female victims as objects like “potted plants” and spoke of them as being items to … Read more
A copy of a recent article by Jeffrey Hancock, Michael Woodworth, and Rachel Boochever, Psychopaths Online: The Linguistic Traces of Psychopathy in Email, Text Messaging and Facebook, is now available on the Members page of this website. Jamie Knowles and Dr. Nicola Gray prepared this summary of the article. ———————————— Study background and aims of … Read more
Written by Sara Lapsley and the Research Committee The article by Reidy, Kearns, DeGue, Lilienfeld, Massetti, and Kiehl (2015) draws attention to the grave threat that violence poses to public safety across the globe, and notes the catastrophic burden in terms of human suffering, lost productivity, and medical and criminal justice costs. The authors suggest … Read more
A copy of Dr. van Dongen’s new article, The Empathic Brain of Psychopaths: From Social Science to Neuroscience in Empathy, is now available on the Members page of this website. Dr. van Dongen prepared this summary of her paper. Dr. van Dongen is Assistant Professor of Forensic Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Education … Read more
Written by Ellen Tansony-Luedke and the Research Committee The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between psychopathic traits, using the triarchic model of psychopathy, and both adaptive and maladaptive workplace behaviours. Briefly, the triarchic model posits that psychopathy can be conceptualized by three distinct but interrelated domains: disinhibition (e.g., difficulties with impulse … Read more
