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Parsing Fear: A Reassessment of the Evidence for Fear Deficits in Psychopathy

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Bulletin, June 2016
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Title
Parsing Fear: A Reassessment of the Evidence for Fear Deficits in Psychopathy
Published in
Psychological Bulletin, June 2016
DOI 10.1037/bul0000040
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Sylco S. Hoppenbrouwers, Berend H. Bulten, Inti A. Brazil

Abstract

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by interpersonal manipulation and callousness, and reckless and impulsive antisocial behavior. It is often seen as a disorder in which profound emotional disturbances lead to antisocial behavior. A lack of fear in particular has been proposed as an etiologically salient factor. In this review, we employ a conceptual model in which fear is parsed into separate subcomponents. Important historical conceptualizations of psychopathy, the neuroscientific and empirical evidence for fear deficits in psychopathy are compared against this model. The empirical evidence is also subjected to a meta-analysis. We conclude that most studies have used the term "fear" generically, amassing different methods and levels of measurement under the umbrella term "fear." Unlike earlier claims that psychopathy is related to general fearlessness, we show there is evidence that psychopathic individuals have deficits in threat detection and responsivity, but that the evidence for reduced subjective experience of fear in psychopathy is far less compelling. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 209 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 14%
Student > Bachelor 26 12%
Researcher 18 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 6%
Other 47 22%
Unknown 47 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 90 42%
Neuroscience 18 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 4%
Social Sciences 7 3%
Other 18 8%
Unknown 63 30%
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