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SUBMITTER: Tillem S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4993675 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tillem Scott S Ryan Jonathan J Wu Jia J Crowley Michael J MJ Mayes Linda C LC Baskin-Sommers Arielle A
Biological psychology 20160630
Psychopathic offenders are described as emotionally cold, displaying deficits in affective responding. However, research demonstrates that many of the psychopathy-related deficits are moderated by attention, such that under conditions of high attentional and perceptual load psychopathic offenders display deficits in affective responses, but do not in conditions of low load. To date, most studies use measures of defensive reflex (i.e., startle) and conditioning manipulations to examine the impact ...[more]