Journal of Abnormal Psychology Evaluating the Generalizability of a Fear Deficit in Psychopathic African American Offenders
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Evaluating the generalizability of a fear deficit in psychopathic African American offenders.
Laboratory studies of psychopathy have yielded an impressive array of etiologically relevant findings. To date, however, attempts to demonstrate the generalizability of these findings to African American psychopathic offenders have been largely unsuccessful. The fear deficit has long been regarded as the hallmark of psychopathy, yet the generalizability of this association to African American o...
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تاریخ انتشار 2010