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JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 322-327Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.02.005
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Psychopathy; Morality; Moral judgment; Forensics; Personality disorders
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA026505] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH085010, R01 MH070539, R01 MH070539-04] Funding Source: Medline
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The present study examined whether and in what ways psychopathy is associated with abnormal moral intuitions among criminal offenders. Using Haidt et al.'s Moral Foundations Questionnaire, 222 adult male offenders assessed for clinical psychopathy reported their degree of support for five moral domains: Harm Prevention, Fairness, Respect for Authority, Ingroup Loyalty, and Purity/Sanctity. As predicted, psychopathy total score explained a substantial proportion of the variance in reduced support for Harm Prevention and Fairness, but not the other domains. These results confirm that psychopathy entails a discrete set of moral abnormalities and suggest that these abnormalities could potentially help to explain the characteristic antisocial behavior of individuals with psychopathy. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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