ArticlePloS one2015
Impact of Psychopathy on Moral Judgments about Causing Fear and Physical Harm.
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- Bilateral amygdala damage linked to impaired ability to predict others' fear but preserved moral judgements about causing others fear.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Reduced Multivoxel Pattern Similarity of Vicarious Neural Pain Responses in Psychopathy.Journal of personality disorders · 2020Article
- Mapping neural activity patterns to contextualized fearful facial expressions onto callous-unemotional (CU) traits: intersubject representational similarity analysis reveals less variation among high-CU adolescents.Personality neuroscience · 2020Article
- Psychometric Properties and Validation of the EMOTICOM Test Battery in a Healthy Danish Population.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Cognitive-Emotional and Inhibitory Deficits as a Window to Moral Decision-Making Difficulties Related to Exposure to Violence.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Externalizing behavior severity in youths with callous-unemotional traits corresponds to patterns of amygdala activity and connectivity during judgments of causing fear.Development and psychopathology · 2018Article
- Emotion-based learning systems and the development of morality.Cognition · 2017Article
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Abstract
Psychopathy is a personality variable associated with persistent immoral behaviors. Despite this, attempts to link moral reasoning deficits to psychopathic traits have yielded mixed results with many findings supporting intact moral reasoning in individuals with psychopathic traits. Abundant evidence shows that psychopathy impairs responses to others' emotional distress. However, most studies of morality and psychopathy focus on judgments about causing others physical harm. Results of such studies may be inconsistent because physical harm is an imperfect proxy for emotional distress. No previous paradigm has explicitly separated judgments about physical harm and emotional distress and assessed how psychopathy affects each type of judgment. In three studies we found that psychopathy impairs judgments about causing others emotional distress (specifically fear) but minimally affects judgments about causing physical harm and that judgments about causing fear predict instrumental aggression in psychopathy. These findings are consistent with reports linking psychopathy to insensitivity to others' fear, and suggest that sensitivity to others' fear may play a fundamental role in the types of moral decision-making impaired by psychopathy.
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