“A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy”

“Psychopathy is a complex personality disorder that includes interpersonal and affective traits such as glibness, lack of empathy, guilt or remorse, shallow affect, and irresponsibility, and behavioral characteristics such as impulsivity, poor behavioral control, and promiscuity.”  Here a paper of interest by Kent A. Kiehl, A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopath: Evidence for paralimbic system [...]

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The neurological basis of psychopathy

A talk by Kent Kiehl on the neurological basis of psychopathy. (2008) Here

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More on “bullying”

Tim Field, who unfortunately left us at a very early age, was himself targeted but left behind a tremendous wealth of information on his site which I highly recommend to anyone who for.ex., is/have been abused at work, have a child who is bullied, is/have been abused in a relationship. On his site you will [...]

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“Bullies” and why they keep “bullying” regardless of age

To “bully” – a much too kind of a word for a process that can lead to lifelong suffering and/or death for those targeted by this type of violence. We already know that a relationship exists between “bullying” and conduct problems. In the study below, researchers took a closer look at children with conduct problems [...]

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Conferences of interest in New Orleans

Psychopathy and the Law Symposium, April 15-16 http://www.psychopathysociety.org/forms/sssp_law.pdf The Society for Scientific Study of Psychopathy, April 16-18   with a pre-conference workshop held on Wednesday, April 15, 2009. http://www.psychopathysociety.org/forms/sssp_conference_2009.pdf

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