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Callous-Unemotionality in a Sample of Justice-Involved Adolescents: Distinct Associations With Attachment Avoidance and Attachment Anxiety - Child Psychiatry & Human Development Attachment insecurity is associated with callous-unemotionality (CU), but few studies have considered whether specific dimensions of insecurity are differentially associated with CU. The first aim of ...

Callous-unemotional traits positively correlated with attachment avoidance and negatively with attachment anxiety in justice involved youth, but emotion regulation or trauma exposure do not explain that association: tinyurl.com/y6a7yv8e

Psychopathy and Self‐Construal: Trait‐Specific Associations With Independent and Interdependent Self‐Construal Three direct replication studies were conducted to investigate the association between psychopathy and self-construal. Participants were undergraduate college students who completed two comprehensive....

Higher emotional callousness found to be correlated with lower self-concept as depending on others as an individual, but not as a member of a group; boldness associated with an independent self perception: tinyurl.com/8dvfbrd5

Brain Responses During Face Processing in Conduct Disorder: Considering Sex and Callous-Unemotional Traits Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of conduct disorder (CD) have mostly been limited to males. Here, we examined whether male and female youths with CD showed similar or distinct alteration...

Differential amygdala reactivity in response to emotional facial expressions for female versus male youth with conduct problems with/without callous-unemotional traits pointing to distinct pathways: tinyurl.com/2e3x3t87

Just a few more weeks until the submission date for the SSSP conference in Dallas: submit your best work by December 1st.

Extensive examination of self and other-reported narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian traits: higher correlation between self and other reports than expected but structural variance: tinyurl.com/4ce42nfy

<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library Music is a powerful medium to study emotion recognition. However, findings are mixed regarding the proficiency of young children to detect emotion conveyed by music. Moreover, we lack knowledge about...

Emotion recognition from music shown to be lower in 3-5 year olds with higher on callous-unemotional traits: tinyurl.com/2rx8jmh8

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Neural fingerprint of the dark triad: Resting state BOLD power (fALFF) alterations in executive and default mode networks - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience The neural foundations of the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—remain largely unexplored despite their profound impact on social behavior. Previous rese...

A resting state based neural activity map related to the "dark triad" - higher scores on all dark triad scales related to increased Central Executive Neural Network and decreased Default Mode Network activity: tinyurl.com/5f2hhuw6

Emotional Processing of Pictures and Psychopathic Traits in Women Who Committed Crimes Psychopathy involves emotional deficits and affective processing difficulties, yet its relationship with emotional processing in incarcerated women remains underexplored. This study examines associ...

New study with women in prison showed both, hypoarousal and heightened threat reactivity: tinyurl.com/37wz2yx2 - we need to understand the emotional dysregulation in women high on psychopathy better.

Different yet partially overlapping: Autism Spectrum, Oppositional Defiant, Conduct Disorder share symptoms and vary in Emotional dysregulation and Callous-Unemotional trait links shown here: tinyurl.com/3m6h75y5

In a large Dutch longitudinal sample, SES showed protective role for effects of psychopathy on criminality, but parental absence, parental monitoring and adverse childhood experiences moderate effects on criminality: tinyurl.com/mu7y85et @msellbom.bsky.social

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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...

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Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly

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We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.

We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.

The indirect effects of psychopathy and sadism on functional impairment through executive functioning - Current Psychology Previous work has produced conflicting findings on psychopathy and executive functioning (EF) and had yet to consider the role of sadism with the four-factor model of psychopathy. Further, the effects...

How are psychopathic traits and sadism related to executive functioning in a general population sample? Sadism related to enhanced functions, but Erratic Lifestyle, Callous Affect and Antisocial Behavior each related to reduced functional impairment: tinyurl.com/3k46aze6

Influence of Psychopathic Traits on Desistance Factors From Criminal Behavior During Transition to Adulthood This study examined the evolution of psychopathic traits from adolescence to adulthood over a 10-year period, focusing on their impact on delinquency. It also assessed whether psychosocial maturati...

Persistence of psychopathic traits and related offending in young people, turning points have little impact: tinyurl.com/4emmb23s

Callous‐Unemotional Trait Prosocial Limitations Are Moderated by Cognitive Control Impacting Theory of Mind in Adolescents Although callous-unemotional (CU) traits are linked with antisocial behavior, affected youth still engage in some prosocial behaviors. The factors contributing to prosocial behavior in these youth ar...

Young people with callous-unemotional traits who are easily cognitively overloaded show less prosocial behavior, but those not affected by cognitive demands don't show such reduction: tinyurl.com/ycyac5en

Great discussion by Eva Kimonis and colleague of a paper discussing reflections of health carers about "difficult-to-treat" veteran clients, touching on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits - a call to work on this: tinyurl.run/aZU1pe @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social

New meta analysis shows that (mainly secondary) psychopathy is related to lower task performance, worse organizational citizenship behavior and more counterproductive work behavior: tinyurl.run/xGe8ow

Parenting and Peer Victimization in the Development of Callous-Unemotional Behaviors: Moderation by Irritability and Basal Cortisol - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology The present study tested three aims regarding the socializing roles of peer victimization and harsh parenting in the development of callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors. First, we investigated whether p...

Not peer victimization but harsh parenting found to be related to higher CU traits, especially in those highly irritable, and lower cortisol related to higher CU traits: tinyurl.com/4y49dkt6

Parenting Under Pressure: How Child Limited Prosocial Emotions Shape the Stress-Warmth Connection - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology - Parental warmth is a core intervention target for children with Limited Prosocial Emotions (LPE) whose conduct problems persist despite...

Less warm parenting due to more parental stress seems to be aggravated by callous-unemotional traits in young people with conduct problems - very relevant and needs replication in a larger sample: tinyurl.com/mws4bx7r

Higher callous-unemotional traits in young people with conduct problems are related to more gun violence, which is mediated by maternal hostility (but not by parenting practices nor maternal warmth): tinyurl.com/4yv3aw92

Signaling Molecules and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Young People: A Systematic Review and Methodological and Future Considerations Burgeoning evidence supports multiple developmental pathways to antisocial behavior. However, a comprehensive mechanistic understanding is lacking, an…

Great review on the role of molecules for callous-unemotional traits: tinyurl.com/53nkmeu7

Network structures of psychopathy: unidimensional and multidimensional approaches Network analyses offer a viable alternative approach to understanding the nature of mental disorders. The current study was conducted to advance our u…

Network analysis for the PCL-R: finding both, a one factor and a four-factor-structure; Lack of Empathy showed strongest connection to all four factors: tinyurl.com/5fmcx87j

The Role of Structural Brain Networks in Psychopathy and Its Relation to Externalizing Behaviors We investigated the structural connectivity associated with psychopathy and its relation to externalizing behaviors in 82 young adults using connectome-based prediction model with leave-one-out cross...

Structural connectome-based analysis of young adults showed positive associations with social-affective, language and reward processing regions, and negative associations with attention modulation regions - BUT only based on the short dark triad measure! tinyurl.com/2due9wnb

Women with lethal violent convictions and severe mental disorder shown to have lower PCL-R total and interpersonal facet scores, and higher arousal and planning related to their offense: tinyurl.com/mwxffbzz

Multi-model ensemble framework for analysis of psychopathic traits in heinous crime convicts - Journal of Computational Social Science The correlation between psychiatric disorder and criminality has been the subject of intense debate and scrutiny in recent years, in light of multiple violent incidents in India and other nations. To ...

To be expected coming at some point: a suggestion for an algorithm deriving "psychopathy" from 68 pieces of information (parental, interpersonal, personality, psychological, socio-demographic, prison behavior) - 87% accuracy in matching PCL-R levels: tinyurl.com/mr334bp2

Associations among Caregiving Helplessness, Parenting Stress and Child Callous-Unemotional Traits in a Clinic-Referred Sample - Child Psychiatry & Human Development This study explored whether caregiving helplessness and parenting stress were associated with callous-unemotional (CU) traits in a clinic-referred sample of 92 children (3–9 years). Mothers (N = 92) a...

Maternal parenting stress and paternal helplessness found to be related to higher child callous-unemotional traits (controlling for conduct problems): tinyurl.com/58wzy5hp