psychopathy

Overburdening associations: The dependency of psychopathy-related acquisitional learning deficits on processing load

Psychopathic personality traits have been identified as an important predictor of associative learning capacity. Prior work has associated psychopathy with deficits when adapting learned associations in response to novel information. However, …

No Impaired Integration in Psychopathy: Evidence from an Illusory Conjunction Paradigm

Progress in psychopathy research has been hampered by ongoing contention about its fundamental cause. The Impaired Integration theory of psychopathy provides an attention-based account of information integration abnormalities. We set out to evaluate …

Social economic decision-making and psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Psychopathy is a personality construct that encompasses a constellation of traits reflecting emotional dysfunction and antisocial behavior. This constellation has consistently been linked to poor decision-making, often focused on personal and …

Do psychopaths suffer from impaired information integration?

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