Psychopathy and Pride: Testing Lykken’s Hypothesis Regarding the Implications of Fearlessness for Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior

Psychopathy and Pride: Testing Lykken’s Hypothesis Regarding the Implications of Fearlessness for Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior

Despite widespread assumptions that psychopathy is associated with serious and repeated law-breaking, individuals with psychopathic personality traits do not invariably become chronic criminal offenders. As a partial explanation for this finding, Lykken (1995) ventured that a fearless temperament un...

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Main Authors: Thomas H. Costello, Ansley Unterberger, Ashley L. Watts, Scott O. Lilienfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
psychopathy
pride
prosocial behavior
antisocial behavior
heroism
leadership
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00185/full

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