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Psychopathy & Antisocial Behavior

WEB and Psychopaths

In the context of dealing with psychopathic people, the acronym WEB stands for: - Words - Emotions - Behaviour

This framework helps individuals understand and manage their interactions with psychopathic individuals by focusing on these three key aspects:

  1. Words: Psychopaths often use manipulative language to deceive and control others. It's important to pay attention to what is being said and to question the truth and intentions behind their words
  2. Emotions: Psychopaths can be skilled at manipulating emotions to exploit others. Being aware of how they might be trying to influence your emotional state can help you maintain control and avoid being manipulated

  3. Behaviour: Observing their actions can provide insight into their true intentions. Consistent patterns of harmful or deceitful behaviour are strong indicators of psychopathic tendencies

  4. What it's like living with psychopathy

  5. Autism & psychopathy research

Influence of Childhood Trauma in Psychopathy

Influence of childhood trauma in psychopathy

Juvenile Psychopathy

Child Psychopathy Scale research

Psychopathy and the Triarchic Model

The triarchic model proposes that psychopathy as described historically and represented in differing assessment devices encompasses three distinct but intersecting symptomatic (phenotypic) constructs: disinhibition, boldness, and meanness.

Triarchic model research paper

Disinhibition

Entails impulsiveness, weak restraint, hostility and mistrust, and difficulties in regulating emotion.

Meanness

Entails deficient empathy, lack of affiliative capacity, contempt toward others, predatory exploitativeness, and empowerment through cruelty or destructiveness.

Boldness

The third construct in the triarchic model, boldness, entails proclivities toward confidence and social assertiveness, emotional resiliency, and venturesomeness.

Female Psychopaths

How to identify female psychopaths

Jennifer Skeem Papers on Psychopaths

Definition to be added

"Word" Test for Psychopaths

Definition to be added

Callous and Unemotional Traits

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