A Bayesian Account of Psychopathy: A Model of Lacks Remorse and Self-Aggrandizing

This article proposes a formal model that integrates cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapeutic models of psychopathy to show how two major psychopathic traits called 'lacks remorse' and 'self-aggrandizing' can be understood as a form of abnormal Bayesian inference about the s...

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Main Authors: Aaron Prosser, Karl J. Friston, Nathan Bakker, Thomas Parr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018-10-01
Series:Computational Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://cpsyjournal.org/articles/42