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One such analysis by Smith and Lilienfeld (2015) evaluated 94 experimental samples with a total of 7,340 participants found that the relationship between attention impairment and psychopathy had a statistically significant effect size of 0.20. The authors considered this to be a "small to medium effect."
The influence of childhood trauma on the development of psychopathy in adulthood remains an active research question. According to Hervey M. Cleckley, a psychopathic person is someone who is able to imitate a normal functioning person, while masking or concealing their lack of internal personality structure.
Similarly, different subtypes of aggressive and antisocial behaviors in youth may predict distinct problem-behaviors and risk factors. There have been a number of attempts to officially designate psychopathic-like traits in antisocial youths based on the affective and interpersonal traits of psychopathy.
Famous individuals have sometimes been diagnosed, albeit at a distance, as psychopaths. As one example out of many possible from history, in a 1972 version of a secret report originally prepared for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943, which may have been intended to be used as propaganda, [117] [118] non-medical psychoanalyst Walter C ...
Illustration of the triad. The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, [1] that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy.
“A person may guilt-trip to emotionally blackmail, avoid change, get their needs met and make one feel inferior. Guilt-trippers have a hard time accepting responsibility for their behavior.
One may feel guilty based on emotional blackmail, even while recognizing the guilt as induced and irrational; [19] but still be able to resist overcompensating, and ignore the blackmailer's attempt to gain attention by way of having a tantrum. [20]
Projection of general guilt: Projection of a severe conscience [28] is another form of defense, one which may be linked to the making of false accusations, personal or political. [22] Projection of hope: Also, in a more positive light, a patient may sometimes project their feelings of hope onto the therapist. [29]