Psychopathic traits and identity threat as predictors of everyday heroism

Falls prevention as everyday heroism.

Psychopathic Traits and Everyday Social Behaviour

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Psychopathic Traits and Endocrine Function as Predictors of Costly and Non- Costly Reactive Aggression

I investigated factors of psychopathy (fearless dominance, self-centered impulsivity) and hormones (testosterone, cortisol, estradiol) in predicting costly and non-costly reactive aggression. I hypothesized that whereas self-centred impulsivity (SCI) would promote costly aggression, fearless dominance (FD) would promote non-costly aggression. Costly aggression was measured using the Point Subtr...

learning style, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension

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Traits, states, and attentional gates: temperament and threat relevance as predictors of attentional bias to social threat.

This study investigated the influence of situational and dispositional factors on attentional biases toward social threat, and the impact of these attentional biases on distress in a sample of adolescents. The results suggest greater biases for personally relevant threat cues, as individuals reporting high social stress were vigilant to subliminal social threat cues, but not physical threat cue...