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SUBMITTER: Blakey R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6079205 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Blakey Robert R Askelund Adrian Dahl AD Boccanera Matilde M Immonen Johanna J Plohl Nejc N Popham Cassandra C Sorger Clarissa C Stuhlreyer Julia J
Frontiers in psychology 20180731
Research in neurocriminology has explored the link between neural functions and structures and the psychopathic disposition. This online experiment aimed to assess the effect of communicating the neuroscience of psychopathy on the degree to which lay people exhibited attitudes characteristic of psychopathy in particular in terms of moral behavior. If psychopathy is blamed on the brain, people may feel less morally responsible for their own psychopathic tendencies. In the study, participants read ...[more]