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PMID: 23342959 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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In accordance with a recently proposed account of amygdala function in psychopathy, it is hypothesized that people with high levels of psychopathic personality traits have a bias in learning style to encode the general valence, and neglect the specific-features, of an outcome. We present a novel learning task designed to operationalize these biases in learning style. The results from pilot samples of healthy adults and children and from a clinical sample of children with conduct problems provide support for the validity of the learning task as a measure of learning style and demonstrate a significant relationship between general-valence style learning and psychopathic personality traits. It is suggested that this relationship may be important for the aetiology of the social-cognitive deficits exhibited by psychopaths. These preliminary results suggest that this measure of learning style has the potential to be utilized as a research tool and may assist with the early identification, and treatment, of children with conduct problems and high levels of callous-unemotional traits. |
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Caroline Moul; Mark R Dadds |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of personality disorders Volume: 27 ISSN: 1943-2763 ISO Abbreviation: J. Pers. Disord. Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-01-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8710838 Medline TA: J Pers Disord Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 85-98 Citation Subset: IM |
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