Journal of Forensic Psychology

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• Research Article
  Adaptive Psychopathy: The Quarantine Vector and Psychopathy Induction
  Author(s): Stephen Mihailides, Roslyn Galligan and Glen Bates Stephen Mihailides, Roslyn Galligan and Glen Bates
  
  Defined within evolutionary psychology, the tenets of the State Psychopathy and Directional Vector hypotheses of psychopathy theory (Bates et al.), were tested in an experimental induction designed to rouse survival threat. Territorial incursion, eliciting survival threat, within the Directional Vector hypothesis posits that psychopathic affect is roused, directionally, bounded by a quarantined zone. Theory also posits that processing of normal-range affect, occurring outside the quarantined zone, is relatively unaffected by psychopathic cognition. Hypotheses that i) increases in Symbolic Division would heighten splits on socio-cultural, sexual, affective, and spiritual dimensions between members of one’s own community and invading others, that ii) Objectification would occur so that invading others would be imbued with affect from the psychopathic range; and iii) that Mutual Ex.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2475-319X.1000127

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