Peoples Temperament

Question 1

Why may temperament play a role in serial killing?

Answer 1

Not all those who learn cruelty to animals become serial killers because it can be dependent on biological factors such as temperament in receiving pleasure from the killings

Question 2

What is temperament

Answer 2

Stable behaviors over time

Question 3

What temperament makes someone more likely of committing animal abuse

Answer 3

Callous-unemotional

Question 4

Hartman et al (2016)

Answer 4

Among 290 children, 47 who had harmed animals scored low on cognitive empathy and showed signed of callousness/unemotional subscale. Both were predictors of animal cruelty, mediating it.

Question 5

Study about animal cruelty and temperaments

Answer 5

Hartman et al (2016)

Question 6

Hartman et al (2016) limitations

Answer 6

Sample from women who had been domestically abused. There are other violent crimes that are not presented in this study.

Question 7

What traits support temperament

Answer 7

Lack of guilt and antisocial personality disorder

Question 8

The effects of social learning theory in serial killing of how it is easy to carry out

Answer 8

Desensitization

Question 9

What factor is linked to callous-unemotional traits

Answer 9

Under arousal theory

Question 10

Biological factor for social learning

Answer 10

Mirror Neurons

Question 11

What are mirror neurons

Answer 11

System in the brain activated when observing a behavior

Question 12

Fecteau 2008

Answer 12

participants brain activity was measured while they observed an apply being stabbed by a needle compared to a human hand. When the human hand was being poked by the needle, mirror neurons system showed significantly reduced activity.

Question 13

Study about mirror Neurons

Answer 13

Fecteau 2008