Despite considerable evidence that psychopathic criminals are deviant in their emotional reactions, few studies have examined responses to both pleasurable and aversive stimuli or assessed the role of

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• The development of psychopathy (2006) · doi

  , childhood sexual/physical abuse) should elevate emotional responsiveness, not lead to the specific form of reduced responsiveness seen in psychopathy; (2) The genetic influence leads to the emotional dysfunction that is the core of psychopathy; (3) The genetic influence at the molecular level remains unknown.

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• Child and Adolescent Psychopathy (2008) · doi

  Although there has been considerable research conducted on psychopathy at the adult level and a surge of research attempting to extend the concept to children and adolescents in the past decade, few studies have attempted to examine factors that might moderate or protect against the development of psychopathy.

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• Psychopathy and Physiological Response to Emotionally Evocative Sounds. (2004) · doi

  Despite considerable evidence that psychopathic criminals are deviant in their emotional reactions, few studies have examined responses to both pleasurable and aversive stimuli or assessed the role of different facets of psychopathy in affective deviations.

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• Clarifying the role of defensive reactivity deficits in psychopathy and antisocial personality using startle reflex methodology. (2010) · doi

  However, the basis of this association remains unclear, as diagnostic criteria for psychopathy encompass two distinct phenotypic components that may reflect differing neurobiological mechanisms-an affective-interpersonal component and an antisocial deviance component.

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