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View article: Locating triarchic model constructs in the hierarchical structure of a comprehensive trait-based psychopathy measure: Implications for research and clinical assessment.
Locating triarchic model constructs in the hierarchical structure of a comprehensive trait-based psychopathy measure: Implications for research and clinical assessment. Open
The triarchic model posits that distinct trait constructs of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition underlie psychopathy. The triarchic model traits are conceptualized as biobehavioral dimensions that can be assessed using different sets of…
View article: The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts
The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts Open
For security and justice professionals (e.g., police officers, lawyers, judges), the thousands of peer-reviewed articles on nonverbal communication represent important sources of knowledge. However, despite the scope of the scientific work…
View article: The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts
The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts Open
For security and justice professionals (e.g., police officers, lawyers, judges), the thousands of peer-reviewed articles on nonverbal communication represent important sources of knowledge. However, despite the scope of the scientific work…
View article: Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology
Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology Open
This book examines the traditional assumptions made by academics and professionals alike that have embedded sociopolitical biases that impede practice.
View article: Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders Reconsidered: Beyond Sociocognitive and Trauma Models Toward a Transtheoretical Framework
Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders Reconsidered: Beyond Sociocognitive and Trauma Models Toward a Transtheoretical Framework Open
For more than 30 years, the posttraumatic model (PTM) and the sociocognitive model (SCM) of dissociation have vied for attention and empirical support. We contend that neither perspective provides a satisfactory account and that dissociati…
View article: Addiction and the Brain-Disease Fallacy
Addiction and the Brain-Disease Fallacy Open
The notion that addiction is a "brain disease" has become widespread and rarely challenged. The brain-disease model implies erroneously that the brain is necessarily the most important and useful level of analysis for understanding and tre…
View article: The curious case of left‐wing authoritarianism: When authoritarian persons meet anti‐authoritarian norms
The curious case of left‐wing authoritarianism: When authoritarian persons meet anti‐authoritarian norms Open
Left-Wing Authoritarianism (LWA) has a controversial history in psychology. Some researchers have expressed skepticism about the existence of LWA, whereas others have argued that LWA is a valid construct. In the present article, we offer a…
View article: Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists
Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists Open
On the basis of converging research, we concluded that the controversial topic of unconscious blockage of psychological trauma (i.e., repressed memory) remains very much alive in clinical, legal, and academic contexts. In his commentary, B…
View article: Social and Economic Political Ideology Consistently Operate as Mutual Suppressors: Implications for Personality, Social, and Political Psychology
Social and Economic Political Ideology Consistently Operate as Mutual Suppressors: Implications for Personality, Social, and Political Psychology Open
Right-left political views can be decomposed into distinct economic and social dimensions that bear differing relations with external criteria. In three community samples (total N = 1487), we identified replicable suppressor situations in …
View article: Clarifying the Structure and Nature of Left-Wing Authoritarianism
Clarifying the Structure and Nature of Left-Wing Authoritarianism Open
Authoritarianism has been the subject of scientific inquiry for nearly a century, yet the vast majority of authoritarianism research has focused on right-wing authoritarianism. In the present studies, we investigate the nature, structure, …
View article: The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma
The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma Open
Can purely psychological trauma lead to a complete blockage of autobiographical memories? This long-standing question about the existence of repressed memories has been at the heart of one of the most heated debates in modern psychology. T…
View article: Insufferably Dilly-Dallying and Lazy Editorial (IDLE) Syndrome: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Identifying Slothful Journal Editors
Insufferably Dilly-Dallying and Lazy Editorial (IDLE) Syndrome: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Identifying Slothful Journal Editors Open
Lilienfeld, S. O., & Latzman, R.D. (2019). Insufferably Dilly-Dallying and Lazy Editorial (IDLE) Syndrome: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Identifying Slothful Journal Editors. The Clinical Psychologist, 72(3), 20-23.
View article: Construct validity of youth psychopathic traits as assessed by the Antisocial Process Screening Device.
Construct validity of youth psychopathic traits as assessed by the Antisocial Process Screening Device. Open
The study of psychopathic traits in youth is in its nascent stages and the nature and the structure of these traits is still poorly understood. In one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the construct validity of the widely used …
View article: The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma
The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma Open
Can purely psychological trauma lead to a complete blockage of autobiographical memories? This long-standing question about the existence of repressed memories has been at the heart of one of the most heated debates in modern psychology. T…
View article: What is “evidence” in psychotherapies?
What is “evidence” in psychotherapies? Open
The concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM), which originated in the early 1990s at McMaster University (Canada) and spread to the UK and North America, heralded an effort to place medicine on firmer scientific footing. EBM's overarching …
View article: Microaggression Research and Application: Clarifications, Corrections, and Common Ground
Microaggression Research and Application: Clarifications, Corrections, and Common Ground Open
In this issue, Williams (pp. 3–26) responds to my 2017 critique in this journal of the scientific status of the microaggression research program (MRP). In some cases, she presents helpful data that partially address several of my recommend…
View article: “Escape from Freedom”: Authoritarianism-related traits, political ideology, personality, and belief in free will/determinism.
“Escape from Freedom”: Authoritarianism-related traits, political ideology, personality, and belief in free will/determinism. Open
Philosophers have long speculated that authoritarianism and belief in determinism are functionally related. To evaluate this hypothesis, we assessed whether authoritarianism and allied personality and political variables predict varieties …
View article: The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts
The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts Open
For security and justice professionals (e.g., police officers, lawyers, judges), the thousands of peer-reviewed articles on nonverbal communication represent important sources of knowledge. However, despite the scope of the scientific work…
View article: Extending the Nomological Network of Sexual Objectification to Psychopathic and Allied Personality Traits
Extending the Nomological Network of Sexual Objectification to Psychopathic and Allied Personality Traits Open
Although the causes and correlates of sexual objectification almost certainly comprise a heterogeneous array of individual difference variables, little is known about sexual objectification perpetration’s nomological network. We hypothesiz…
View article: A Plea for Preregistration in Personality Disorders Research: The Case of Psychopathy
A Plea for Preregistration in Personality Disorders Research: The Case of Psychopathy Open
In response to a crisis of confidence, several methodological initiatives have been launched to improve the robustness of psychological science. Given its real-world implications, personality disorders research is all too important to not …
View article: Formulation of a measurement model for the boldness construct of psychopathy.
Formulation of a measurement model for the boldness construct of psychopathy. Open
We describe efforts to formulate a quantitative measurement model for boldness, a construct that has been intensively discussed and investigated in the psychopathy literature in recent years. Although the Fearless Dominance factor of the P…
View article: Do psychopathic birds of a feather flock together? Psychopathic personality traits and romantic preferences
Do psychopathic birds of a feather flock together? Psychopathic personality traits and romantic preferences Open
Objective The goal of the present studies was to investigate whether people are especially attracted to psychopathic traits, and whether there are individual differences in such attraction. Method Female undergraduates ( N = 270; M age = 1…
View article: Relations among psychopathy, moral competence, and moral intuitions in student and community samples
Relations among psychopathy, moral competence, and moral intuitions in student and community samples Open
Purpose The nature of moral decision‐making in those with pronounced psychopathic traits has been passionately debated, both in scientific literature and in the public policy arena. Research investigating the relationship between psychopat…
View article: Psychopathy and Pride: Testing Lykken’s Hypothesis Regarding the Implications of Fearlessness for Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior
Psychopathy and Pride: Testing Lykken’s Hypothesis Regarding the Implications of Fearlessness for Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior Open
Despite widespread assumptions that psychopathy is associated with serious and repeated law-breaking, individuals with psychopathic personality traits do not invariably become chronic criminal offenders. As a partial explanation for this f…