SHORT REPORTS Response Perseveration in Psychopathic Women

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  • Jennifer E. Vitale
  • Joseph P. Newman
چکیده

Recent attempts to validate the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991) as a measure of psychopathy in female offenders have been limited by a failure to examine laboratory correlates of the syndrome. We assessed 112 incarcerated women by using the PCL-R and examined their performance on a card perseveration task that has been used to demonstrate response perseveration in psychopathic men. Contrary to prediction, psychopathic women did not perseverate responding when the PCL-R was used either dimensionally or categorically. The authors discuss the implications of the results for the PCL-R and for female psychopathy more generally.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004