Hancock

Question 1

What is the theme of Hancock ?

Answer 1

Individual differences - measuring disorders.

Question 2

Traits of psychopathy

Answer 2

-Inability for personal relationships
-callous disregard for others
-extreme egocentricity
-lack of remorse or conscience
-narcissism

Question 3

What are disfluencies ?

Answer 3

Emotionally coloured air speech and use of past/presence tense reveal personality.

Question 4

What do psychopaths show abnormally high levels of ?

Answer 4

Show abnormally high levels of selfishness and lack of conscious.

Question 5

What did Porter et al find ?

Answer 5

Offenders in Canadian penal system were x2.5 more likely than non psychopaths to be successful in applications.

Question 6

What is Maslow Hierarchy of Needs ?

Answer 6

-Sel actualisation
-esteem
-love and belonging
-safety needs
-Physical needs

Question 7

Aim of Hancock

Answer 7

Use text analysis to analyse language characteristics of psychopaths in describing their violent crimes.

Question 8

Three sub-aims of Hancock

Answer 8

1) instrumental/ predatory world view (clauses)
2)unique socioemotional needs
3)poverty of affect

Question 9

What type of experiment is Hancock

Answer 9

Quasi experiment

Question 10

What were the IV in Hancock ?

Answer 10

psychopath or non-psychopath

Question 11

What was DV in Hancock ?

Answer 11

measures of language from text.

Question 12

What experimental design was Hancock ?

Answer 12

independent measures design

Question 13

What type of interviews did Hancock use ?

Answer 13

semi-structured interviews.

Question 14

What was the sample of Hancock ?

Answer 14

52 male murderers in Canadian correctional facilities, who volunteered to take part. 38 were non-psychopaths.
No difference in type of murder in terms of age and time since crime committed.

Question 15

What did Hancock use to asses psychopathy ?

Answer 15

PCL-R = 20 criteria scored from 0-2 with max score of 40.
25+ would indicate psychopathy.

Question 16

What was text analysis in Hancock ?

Answer 16

WMatrix = classifying types of words (comparing of speech)

Question 17

What was the dictionary of affect ?

Answer 17

classified emotional content (tone of word)

Question 18

Procedure of Hancock (PCL-R)

Answer 18

-PCL-R was completed by trained prisoners psychologist .

Question 19

Procedure of Hancock (interview)

Answer 19

interviews were audiotaped and puts were told to study to examine manner in which they recall their offence.

Question 20

Procedure of Hancock (stepwise technique)

Answer 20

Describe their offence in as much detail from beginning to end. Conducted by 2 senior psychologist - one blind.
Lasted 25 min
Transcribed including disfluencies.
Verbally debriefed and described their offence.

Question 21

Results of Hancock relating to aim 1

Answer 21

-No significant difference in number of words used.
-Instrumental language analysis produces more subordinating conjunctions suggests they were describing cause and effect.

Question 22

Results of Hancock relating to aim 2

Answer 22

Hierarchy of needs analysis = x2 more basic need words than non psychopaths.
-Non psychopaths talk about social needs.
-Emotional expression in psychopaths showed more past tense and fewer present tense

Question 23

How does Hancock link to individual differences approach ?

Answer 23

Focusses on trying to measure differences, through text analysis tools to diagnose psychopathy and how the 2 groups differ.