Andreas Mokros
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View article: Am I (Not) Perfect? Fear of Failure Mediates the Link Between Vulnerable Narcissism and Perfectionism
Am I (Not) Perfect? Fear of Failure Mediates the Link Between Vulnerable Narcissism and Perfectionism Open
(1) Background: Perfectionism, generally conceptualized as a striving for flawlessness, can lead to maladaptive thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Both grandiose narcissism (GN) and vulnerable narcissism (VN) represent relevant personality …
View article: Glaubhaftigkeit von Aussagen
Glaubhaftigkeit von Aussagen Open
View article: Falsche Prämissen und eine vertane Chance – Replik auf die „Expertise“ zur Methode der forensischen Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung (Fegert, Gerke, Kliemann, Pusch, Rixen & Sachser, 2024)
Falsche Prämissen und eine vertane Chance – Replik auf die „Expertise“ zur Methode der forensischen Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung (Fegert, Gerke, Kliemann, Pusch, Rixen & Sachser, 2024) Open
Zusammenfassung Im März 2024 erschien Die Methode der forensischen Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung im deutschen Sprachraum – Ein interdisziplinäres Plädoyer für eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme zur Anwendung der sogenannten „Nullhypothese“ in …
View article: Psychopathic personality traits are associated with experimentally induced approach and appraisal of fear-evoking stimuli indicating fear enjoyment
Psychopathic personality traits are associated with experimentally induced approach and appraisal of fear-evoking stimuli indicating fear enjoyment Open
View article: Criterion Validity of the Psychopathy Checklist in Legal Contexts: An Updated Meta-Analysis
Criterion Validity of the Psychopathy Checklist in Legal Contexts: An Updated Meta-Analysis Open
The Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) scales are the most widely used instruments in the assessment of psychopathic personality traits. This updated meta-analysis represents the most extensive synthesis of the PCL scales' criterion validity rega…
View article: Gewalt an/von Frauen
Gewalt an/von Frauen Open
View article: Measures of Subclinical Psychopathy and Everyday Sadism are Still Redundant: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Blötner and Mokros (2023)
Measures of Subclinical Psychopathy and Everyday Sadism are Still Redundant: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Blötner and Mokros (2023) Open
Objective Various psychological concepts with different names reflect essentially the same content. A recent study ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112102 ) found short scales of subclinical psychopathy and everyday sadism to be affec…
View article: Narcissism and self-estimated intelligence: New insights from multidimensional assessments
Narcissism and self-estimated intelligence: New insights from multidimensional assessments Open
View article: Explicit measures for emotional congruence with children are related to sexual interests in a male community sample, but not implicit measures
Explicit measures for emotional congruence with children are related to sexual interests in a male community sample, but not implicit measures Open
This study sought to disentangle several phenotypic correlates of pedophilic sexual interests, such as emotional congruence with children and lack of empathy. We utilized Implicit Association Tests and self-report questionnaires for emotio…
View article: In the I of the beholder: an attempt to capture the implicit self-concept regarding psychopathy
In the I of the beholder: an attempt to capture the implicit self-concept regarding psychopathy Open
This article explores the implicit self-concept pertaining to psychopathy. Two online studies showed inconsistent results, with Study 1 ( n = 243) suggesting that psychopathy is linked to an implicit self-concept marked by low empathy and …
View article: Rituelle sexuelle Gewalt
Rituelle sexuelle Gewalt Open
Zusammenfassung: Unter ritueller sexueller Gewalt werden Formen organisierten sexuellen Missbrauchs verstanden, die ideologisch geprägt sind und von mehreren Täter_innen über längere Zeiträume ausgeübt werden. Üblicherweise wird in Verbind…
View article: Narcissism and Self-Estimated Intelligence: New Insights from Multidimensional Assessments
Narcissism and Self-Estimated Intelligence: New Insights from Multidimensional Assessments Open
View article: A multimodel meta-analysis assessing moderators of sexual recidivism as an indicator of treatment effectiveness in persons with sexual offense histories
A multimodel meta-analysis assessing moderators of sexual recidivism as an indicator of treatment effectiveness in persons with sexual offense histories Open
Objectives This meta-analysis tested whether multimodel inference provides more conclusive evidence than traditional single-hypothesis testing regarding predictors that moderate sexual recidivism as an indicator of treatment effectiveness …
View article: Measures of Subclinical Psychopathy and Everyday Sadism are Still Redundant: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Blötner and Mokros (2023)
Measures of Subclinical Psychopathy and Everyday Sadism are Still Redundant: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Blötner and Mokros (2023) Open
Introduction: Various psychological concepts with different names reflect essentially the same content. A recent study (Blötner & Mokros, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112102) found short scales of subclinical psychopathy a…
View article: The joy of being frightened: Fear experience in psychopathy
The joy of being frightened: Fear experience in psychopathy Open
Objective Psychopathic traits are associated with abnormalities in fear processing. While traditional theories focus on a lack of fear, Hosker‐Field et al. (2016) provided a new perspective. They suggested that individuals with elevated ps…
View article: Structural differences in psychopathy between women and men: a latent modeling perspective
Structural differences in psychopathy between women and men: a latent modeling perspective Open
Research on sex differences in psychopathy indicates that men generally exhibit higher psychopathy scores than women. Measurement equivalence is an important prerequisite for the investigation of mean differences, but is often neglected fo…
View article: Moderators of Sexual Recidivism as Indicator of Treatment Effectiveness in Persons With Sexual Offense Histories: An Updated Meta-analysis
Moderators of Sexual Recidivism as Indicator of Treatment Effectiveness in Persons With Sexual Offense Histories: An Updated Meta-analysis Open
The present meta-analysis is an update of the meta-analysis by Schmucker and Lösel [Campbell Syst. Rev. 2017; 13: 1–75], which synthesized evidence on sexual recidivism as an indicator of treatment effectiveness in persons with sexual offe…
View article: The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct?
The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct? Open
There is vigorous debate about the distinctiveness of the components that make up the Dark Triad. With its expansion toward the Dark Tetrad, the inclusion of everyday sadism sparked further disagreement on whether this fourth component all…
View article: Deep Learning in the Identification of Electroencephalogram Sources Associated with Sexual Orientation
Deep Learning in the Identification of Electroencephalogram Sources Associated with Sexual Orientation Open
Introduction: It is unclear if sexual orientation is a biological trait that has neurofunctional footprints. With deep learning, the power to classify biological datasets without an a priori selection of features has increased by magnitude…
View article: Tower of Babel or Lighthouse? The State of Research on Neuroelectric Correlates of Human Sexuality: A Response to the Commentaries
Tower of Babel or Lighthouse? The State of Research on Neuroelectric Correlates of Human Sexuality: A Response to the Commentaries Open
View article: Psychopathic and autistic traits differentially influence the neural mechanisms of social cognition from communication signals
Psychopathic and autistic traits differentially influence the neural mechanisms of social cognition from communication signals Open
Psychopathy is associated with severe deviations in social behavior and cognition. While previous research described such cognitive and neural alterations in the processing of rather specific social information from human expressions, some…
View article: Dichotomizing Screening Measures of Latent Traits at New Cut-Off Values: Model-Based Approaches from Summary Statistics
Dichotomizing Screening Measures of Latent Traits at New Cut-Off Values: Model-Based Approaches from Summary Statistics Open
Screening measures and cut-off values are used across different fields of psychology to differentiate between two states (e.g., pathological and non-pathological). Their diagnostic accuracy can be examined with sensitivity and specificity,…
View article: Rational, emotional, or both? Subcomponents of psychopathy predict opposing moral decisions
Rational, emotional, or both? Subcomponents of psychopathy predict opposing moral decisions Open
Recent research has documented a small but significant correlation between psychopathic capacities and utilitarian moral judgment, although the findings are generally inconsistent and unclear. We propose that one way to make sense of mixed…
View article: Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy Open
Psychopathic traits have been linked to anomalies in experiencing fear and anxiety. It remains unclear, however, to what extent fear and anxiety levels are useful parameters to effectively distinguish between subtypes of psychopathy. There…
View article: Automaticity of Early Sexual Attention: An Event-Related Potential Study
Automaticity of Early Sexual Attention: An Event-Related Potential Study Open
A promising line of research on forensic assessment of paraphilic sexual interest focuses on behavioral measures of visual attention using sexual stimuli as distractors. The present study combined event-related potentials (ERPs) with behav…
View article: On the relationship between right‐wing attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and intergroup threat: Introducing an indirect measure for intergroup threat
On the relationship between right‐wing attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and intergroup threat: Introducing an indirect measure for intergroup threat Open
Recent theoretical models stress the importance of both personal and contextual factors in the development of political extremism. One such theory is the Intergroup Threat Theory (ITT) that suggests a relationship between extremism and int…
View article: Sexueller Sadismus: Aktueller Wissensstand und die Codierung gemäß DSM-5-TR und ICD-11
Sexueller Sadismus: Aktueller Wissensstand und die Codierung gemäß DSM-5-TR und ICD-11 Open
View article: The PCL–R and capital sentencing: A commentary on “Death is different” DeMatteo et al. (2020a).
The PCL–R and capital sentencing: A commentary on “Death is different” DeMatteo et al. (2020a). Open
DeMatteo et al. (2020a) published a Statement in this journal declaring that the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) “cannot and should not” be used in U.S. capital-sentencing cases to assess risk for serious institutional violence. Thei…
View article: The Effects of Acute Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Attentional Bias in Pedophilic Disorder: A Preregistered Pilot Study
The Effects of Acute Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Attentional Bias in Pedophilic Disorder: A Preregistered Pilot Study Open
View article: Aims to Reduce Coercive Measures in Forensic Inpatient Treatment: A 9-Year Observational Study
Aims to Reduce Coercive Measures in Forensic Inpatient Treatment: A 9-Year Observational Study Open
Protecting the human rights is particularly important within the forensic context because patients in forensic psychiatry are not admitted voluntarily and so the treatment itself is of a coercive nature. Coercive measures (i.e., act…