ArticlePersonality disorders2021
What makes a "successful" psychopath? Longitudinal trajectories of offenders' antisocial behavior and impulse control as a function of psychopathy.
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- From Stable Traits to Dynamic Mechanisms: An Integrative Conceptual Model of Personality and Criminogenic Cognitions in the Incarcerated Population.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Light Triad traits of personality as moderators between the dark core of personality, psychopathy, and antisociality/criminality.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026Article
- How psychopathic traits affect individuals' trust decisions and outcome evaluations: preliminary ERP evidence.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Personality traits and digital challenges in Honduran adults: exploring the Dark and Light Triads' influence on internet gaming disorder and technology-related conflicts.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Key challenges in neurocognitive assessment of individuals with antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Bold, mean and disinhibited: getting specific about the mediating role of self-control and antisocial outcomes in youth.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2022Article
- Dark personality traits and entrepreneurial intentions among Pakistani university students: The role of executive functions and academic intent to entrepreneurship.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Psychopathic tendencies are selectively associated with reduced emotional awareness in the context of early adversity.PloS one · 2022Article
- Propensity to Punish in High Psychopathy may Promote Cooperation: Human and Computer Prisoner Dilemma Experiments.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Psychopathy is a considerable risk factor for violent behavior. However, many psychopathic individuals refrain from antisocial and criminal acts. The mechanisms underlying the formation of this "successful" phenotype are uncertain. We tested a compensatory model of "successful" psychopathy, which posits that relatively "successful" psychopathic individuals develop greater conscientious traits that serve to inhibit their heightened antisocial impulses. To test this model, we examined the 7-year longitudinal Research on Pathways to Desistance study of 1,354 adjudicated adolescents. Higher initial psychopathy was associated with steeper increases in general inhibitory control and the inhibition of aggression over time. This effect was magnified among "successful" offenders (i.e., those who reoffended less). These findings support our compensatory model, suggesting that psychopathic individuals who develop greater self-regulatory control over their antisocial impulses become relatively more "successful" than their less regulated counterparts. Moreover, our results speak of the importance of the five-factor model for understanding psychopathy and the crucial role of conscientiousness in the form that psychopathic individuals take. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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