Journal of Forensic Psychology

Glen Bates

Publications

• Research Article
  Adaptive Psychopathy: Empathy and Psychopathy are Not Mutually Exclusive
  Author(s): Stephen Mihailides, Roslyn Galligan and Glen Bates Stephen Mihailides, Roslyn Galligan and Glen Bates
  
  This work tests one assumption of the Adaptive Psychopathy hypothesis, namely that empathy and psychopathy are not mutually exclusive for normal-range psychopathy. In earlier work, a Directional Vector was operationalized, testing the core assumption of new theory. Experimental participants were 34 university students studying psychology (38% were male, M=22.08, SD=2.53 years and 62% were female, M=25.33 years, SD=8.33) who were presented with an ideographic nomothetic scenario designed to rouse a survival threat. This exposure elicited elevations in participants' state psychopathy levels, for targets (termed moral deviants) with no change in psychopathy levels for the control group. Hypothesis testing using the Moral Inversion Method, confirmed the retention of empathy for individuals, outside the quarantined zone, not affected by moral inversion. Consistent with hypotheses, empa.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2475-319X.1000125

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