Written by Taffy Chan, Sara Lapsley and the Research Committee What is psychopathy and how are psychopathic traits related to domestic abuse? The study by Humeny and colleagues (2020) examines the relationship between psychopathic traits and the experiences of abuse in romantic relationships. Psychopathy is a personality disorder, consisting of a collection of traits organized … Read more
Dr. Paul Frick is a Professor and holds the Roy Crumpler Memorial Chair in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. He is a former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy and a recipient of the R.D. Hare Lifetime Achievement Award. His research focuses on the causes, assessment, … Read more
Probably only a victim of a psychopath is able to fully understand this post. Those who have never experienced this kind of suffering will likely see nothing more than words. But these are not hollow words. This is a perspective of one survivor; the following text describes only my feelings. It is crucial to remember … Read more
Summary written by Dr. Josanne van Dongen In this study by Garofalo, Neumann, and Velotti (2020), the authors describe the potential role of emotion dysregulation in accounting for part of the well-established associations between psychopathy and aggression. Employing Hare’s (2003) conceptualization of psychopathy and Gratz and Roemer’s (2004) conceptualization of emotion dysregulation, the authors examined … Read more
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
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