Week 8: L2: Psychopaths In Intimate Relationships Flashcards
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The psychopathy checklist
- interpersonal manipulation facet
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- glibness/superficial charm
- manipulation
- grandiosity
- pathological lying
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The psychopathy checklist (Hare, 2003)
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- Interpersonal manipulation facet
- callous affective facet
- erratic lifestyle facet
- antisocial facet
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The Psychopathy checklist
- callous affect
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- lack of empathy
- lack of remorse/guilt
- shallow affect
- failure to accept responsibility
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The Psychopathy checklist
- erratic lifestyle
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- parasitic lifestyle
- boredom process/stimulation seeking
- lack of realistic long-term goals
- impulsivity
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The Psychopathy checklist
- antisocial facet
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- early behavioral problems
- juvenile delinquency
- criminal versatility
- poor behavioural control
- parole violations
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Psychopath facts
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- 1% of pop
- 20% of prison pop, accounting for 50% of crime
- high recidivism rates
- amoral and unethical acts
- workplace bullies
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Research on characteristics of psychopaths?
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- flattened arousal
- poor recognition of fear and disgust faces
- sometimes fail to learn from punishment
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Characteristics of community psychopaths
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- cheating
- pornography and deviant sexual behaviour
- cultural deviance markers (e.g. Tattoos, piercings
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Psychopaths as cheaters hypothesis
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- cheat by mimicking emotions associated with co-operation and trustworthiness
- empathy signals trustworthiness and facilitates social interactions
- lack empathy but display indignation which appears similar to empathic reactions
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Mating strategy: glibness/superficial charm, manipulative, grandiosity
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- key role during initial courtship
- ‘talked’ into victimization.
- rapid progression of relationship
- longer term: detrimental to maintenance of relationship
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Psychopath mating strategy: lack of empathy/remorse and shallow affect
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- initially, lacking empathy would facilitate taking advantage of a vulnerable person
- however, the affective features are incompatible with a long-term relationship
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Psychopath mating strategy: sexually promiscuous/parasitic lifestyle/boredom proneness
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- the combination of these 3 characteristics would increase chances of reproductive success in short-term
- however, they are not what most people would want in long-term
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Psychopath mating strategies: juvenile delinquency, criminal versatility, poor behavioural controls
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- although delinquents may be sexually promiscuous, the antisocial characteristics of psychopathy generally compromise reproductive success, especially of incarcerated.
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Psychopaths’ mating “success”
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- use deception effectively for sex
- have more one-night stands
- have biological children
- good at spotting vulnerability
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Psychopaths in long-term rships
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- talked into victimization
- lying
- economic, emotional and psychological abuse
- isolation and coercion
- children as pawns and poor treatment of them
