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Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is a personality disorder defined by a chronic pattern of behavior that disregards the rights and well-being of others. People with ASPD often exhibit behavior that conflicts with social norms, leading to issues with interpersonal relationships, employment, and legal matters.
This category is for people who have been clinically diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by a limited capacity for empathy and a long-term pattern of behavior that disregards or violates the rights of others, as well as impulsivity and recklessness; a lack of remorse; deceitfulness; irresponsibility, and aggression
One research article studying the individual differences in social anhedonia [13] [14] discusses the negative aspects of this form of extreme or aberrant asociality. Some individuals with social anhedonia are at higher risk of developing schizophrenia and may have mental functioning that becomes poorer than the average. [13]
An anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) is a civil order made against a person who has been shown, on the balance of evidence, to have engaged in anti-social behaviour. The orders, introduced in the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998, [ 46 ] were designed to criminalize minor incidents that would not have warranted prosecution ...
In one such experiment a group of third grade boys was studied. Out of the most aggressive 5%, 39% of them scored above the 95th percentile on aggression ten years later, and 100% of them were above the median. [5] Aggression and antisocial behavior in a child is a predictor of adult antisocial behavior. [6]
Another early form of the theory was proposed by Reiss (1951) [3] who defined delinquency as, "...behavior consequent to the failure of personal and social controls." ." Personal control was defined as, "...the ability of the individual to refrain from meeting needs in ways which conflict with the norms and rules of the community" while social control was, "...the ability of social groups or ...
Recent studies have found that people who are identified as internet trolls tend to have dark personality traits and show signs of sadism, antisocial behavior, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] [ 86 ] The 2013 case study suggested that there are a number of similarities between anti-social and flame trolling activities, [ 87 ...
In 1968 the second edition of the DSM, in place of the antisocial subtype of sociopathic personality disturbance, listed "antisocial personality" as one of ten personality disorders. This was still described in similar terms as the DSM-I's category, for individuals who are "basically unsocialized", in repeated conflicts with society, incapable ...