Callous-Unemotional (CU) traits are personality attributes, which are associated with a deficit of affective valence and reduced empathetic responding in high CU trait clinical populations. The aim of the research was to explore whether a similar pattern of empathy and emotional responding correlated with CU trait manifestation in the general population. A total of 124 participants completed th...

The present study investigates the relation between moral disengagement-one's willingness to conditionally endorse transgressive behavior-and ongoing offending in a sample of adolescent male felony offenders (N = 1,169). In addition, the study attempts to rule out callous-unemotional traits as a third variable responsible for observed associations between moral disengagement and offending. A bi...

An overview is provided of recent twin, molecular genetic, and magnetic resonance imaging studies that are helping to inform a model of developmental vulnerability to adult psychopathy. Although the current evidence base suggests that children with high levels of callous-unemotional traits are genetically and neurocognitively vulnerable to developing psychopathic and antisocial behaviors, exist...

................................................................................................... Introduction................................................................................................ A Brief Summary of Research on Developmental Pathways to Conduct Problems... Parenting Practices and the Etiology of Serious Conduct Problems..................... Differences in the Role o...

Among high-risk youth, those with high levels of callous unemotional (CU) traits show more severe and chronic forms of antisocial behavior. Although ecological models have linked factors across multiple domains of risk to broader antisocial behavior development, fewer studies have adopted this approach in relation to understanding the unique development of CU traits. Further, a paucity of evide...

In forensic samples of adults and adolescents, there is evidence to suggest that there may be distinct variants of psychopathy marked by the presence/absence of significant levels of anxiety. Callous-unemotional (CU) traits can be used to characterize children who share behavioural and neurocognitive features with adult psychopaths. The aims of this paper are to (a) investigate the genetic and ...

The practice of third-party applications (social apps) on social networks sites (SNSs) to collect information about users’ friends has raised awareness of the problem known as interdependent privacy. Although studies have quantified the value which app users place on their friends’ personal information, i.e., interdependent privacy value, few have investigated factors that affect the valuation ...

materials and methods this is a descriptive-correlative study performed on a sample of 320 male high school students, chosen via multi-stage random sampling. instruments used to collect data are inclusive of oppositional defiant behavior inventory (odbi), difficulties in emotion regulation strategies scale (ders) and inventory of callous-unemotional traits (icu). results the results suggest a s...