ArticleAggression and violent behavior
Why psychopathy matters: Implications for public health and violence prevention.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Psychopathy and medial frontal cortex: A systematic review reveals predominantly null relationships.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Emotion Recognition Deficits in Children and Adolescents with Psychopathic Traits: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Psychometric Examination of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder Self-Report (PSCD) Among an Adult Community Sample From Brazil.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2026Article
- Cortical Structure in Relation to Empathy and Psychopathy in 800 Incarcerated Men.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Associations of brain structure with psychopathy.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- A four-factor model of psychopathy assessed via neural reinforcement sensitivity theory.Personality neuroscience · 2026Article
- Adults with more severe psychopathy in the community show increased social discounting.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Network Structures of Psychopathy: Unidimensional and Multidimensional Approaches.Personality and individual differences · 2025Article
- Cortical structure in relation to empathy and psychopathy in 800 incarcerated men.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Psychopathy is a neglected public health problem.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychopathy checklist-youth version scores and recurring victimisation by an intimate partner in a justice-involved sample: A comparison of young men and women using longitudinal data.Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH · 2024Article
- Psychopathy traits explain variance shared between features of substance use disorders and violence.Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH · 2024Article
- Social isolation and aggression training lead to escalated aggression and hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis hyperfunction in mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Bad parents? evaluating judgements of infant homicides.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2024Article
- Impaired salience network switching in psychopathy.Behavioural brain research · 2023Article
- Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the geneticPsychological medicine · 2023Article
- Validation of the inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits among school-going adolescents in Malaysia.PloS one · 2023Article
- Automated patterns of head dynamics are associated with psychopathic traits in incarcerated women.Personality and individual differences · 2023Article
- Synthetic Oxytocin and Vasopressin Act Within the Central Amygdala to Exacerbate Aggression in Female Wistar Rats.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Elaborating on the longitudinal measurement invariance and construct validity of the triarchic psychopathy scales from the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.Psychological assessment · 2021Article
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Abstract
Psychopathy is an early-appearing risk factor for severe and chronic violence. The violence largely attributable to psychopathy constitutes a substantial portion of the societal burden to the public health and criminal justice systems, and thus necessitates significant attention from prevention experts. Yet, despite a vast base of research in psychology and criminology, the public health approach to violence has generally neglected to consider this key variable. Fundamentally, the public health approach to violence prevention is focused on achieving change at the population level to provide the most benefit to the maximum number of people. Increasing attention to the individual-level factor of psychopathy in public health could improve our ability to reduce violence at the community and societal levels. We conclude that the research literature on psychopathy points to a pressing need for a broad-based public health approach with a focus on primary prevention. Further, we consider how measuring psychopathy in public health research may benefit violence prevention, and ultimately society, in general.
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