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General trust impedes perception of self-reported primary psychopathy in thin slices of social interaction

General trust impedes perception of self-reported primary psychopathy in thin slices of social interaction

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Joseph H. Manson , Matthew M. Gervais, Gregory A. Bryant Published: May 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196729 Abstract Little is known about people’s ability to detect subclinical psychopathy from others’ quotidian social behavior, or about the correlates of variation in this ability. This study sought to address these questions using a thin slice personality judgment paradigm. We presented 108 undergraduate judges (70.4% female) with 1.5 minute video thin slices of zero-acquaintance triadic conversations among other undergraduates (targets:…

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Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents

Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Larisa Morosan , Deborah Badoud, Alexandra Zaharia, Tobias Brosch, Stephan Eliez, Anthony Bateman, Patrick Heller, Martin Debbané Published: January 25, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170646 Abstract Background Previous research suggests that antisocial individuals present impairment in social cognitive processing, more specifically in emotion recognition (ER) and perspective taking (PT). The first aim of the present study was to investigate the recognition of a wide range of emotional expressions and visual PT capacities in a group of incarcerated male…

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Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with borderline personality disorder, compared to healthy control subjects

Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with borderline personality disorder, compared to healthy control subjects

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Ella Salgó, Liliána Szeghalmi, Bettina Bajzát, Eszter Berán, Zsolt Unoka Published: March 17, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248409 Abstract Objectives Emotion regulation difficulties are a major characteristic of personality disorders. Our study investigated emotion regulation difficulties that are characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD), compared to a healthy control group. Methods Patients with BPD (N = 59) and healthy participants (N = 70) filled out four self-report questionnaires (Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Five…

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Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential explanatory mechanism in predicting conflict

Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential explanatory mechanism in predicting conflict

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Joshua B. Grubbs , Brandon Warmke, Justin Tosi, A. Shanti James, W. Keith Campbell Published: October 16, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223749 Abstract Public discourse is often caustic and conflict-filled. This trend seems to be particularly evident when the content of such discourse is around moral issues (broadly defined) and when the discourse occurs on social media. Several explanatory mechanisms for such conflict have been explored in recent psychological and social-science literatures. The present work sought to examine…

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The Influence of Parental Psychopathology on Offspring Suicidal Behavior across the Lifespan

The Influence of Parental Psychopathology on Offspring Suicidal Behavior across the Lifespan

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Geilson Lima Santana , Bruno Mendonca Coelho , Guilherme Borges , Maria Carmen Viana , Yuan Pang Wang , Laura Helena Andrade Published: July 31, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134970 Abstract Suicide tends to occur in families, and parental psychopathology has been linked to offspring suicidal behaviors. This study explores the influence of parental mental disorders across the lifespan. Data are from the Sao Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey, a cross-sectional household study with a representative sample of…

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Narcissism and self-esteem: A nomological network analysis

Narcissism and self-esteem: A nomological network analysis

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Courtland S. Hyatt ,Chelsea E. Sleep, Joanna Lamkin, Jessica L. Maples-Keller, Constantine Sedikides, W. Keith Campbell, Joshua D. Miller Published: August 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201088 Abstract Similarity between narcissism and self-esteem seems intuitive, as both capture positive perceptions of the self. In the current undertaking, we provide a broad comparison of the nomological networks of grandiose narcissism and explicit self-esteem. Pooling data from 11 existing samples (N = 4711), we compared the relations of narcissism and…

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Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) among German students—A longitudinal approach

Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) among German students—A longitudinal approach

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Julia Brailovskaia , Jürgen Margraf Published: December 14, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189719 Abstract The present study aimed to investigate Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) in a German student sample over a period of one year. While mean FAD level did not increase during the investigation period, a significant increase was shown in the number of participants reaching the critical cutoff score. FAD was significantly positively related to the personality trait narcissism and to negative mental health variables (depression,…

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Parenting and personality disorder: An overview and meta-synthesis of systematic reviews

Parenting and personality disorder: An overview and meta-synthesis of systematic reviews

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Kayla R. Steele, Michelle L. Townsend, Brin F. S. Grenyer Published: October 1, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223038 Abstract Background/Objectives Maladaptive parenting (including childhood maltreatment, abuse and neglect) has been implicated in the scientific literature exploring the aetiology of personality disorder, particularly borderline personality disorder (BPD). Our primary objective was to summarise the evidence on the relationship between parenting and personality disorder, assisting clinical decision-makers to translate this research into clinical policy and practice. Methods We conducted an…

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The centrality of affective instability and identity in Borderline Personality Disorder: Evidence from network analysis

The centrality of affective instability and identity in Borderline Personality Disorder: Evidence from network analysis

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Juliette Richetin , Emanuele Preti , Giulio Costantini, Chiara De Panfilis Published: October 17, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186695   Abstract We argue that the series of traits characterizing Borderline Personality Disorder samples do not weigh equally. In this regard, we believe that network approaches employed recently in Personality and Psychopathology research to provide information about the differential relationships among symptoms would be useful to test our claim. To our knowledge, this approach has never been applied to…

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Troll story: The dark tetrad and online trolling revisited with a glance at humor

Troll story: The dark tetrad and online trolling revisited with a glance at humor

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Sara Alida Volkmer , Susanne Gaube, Martina Raue, Eva Lermer Published: March 10, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280271 Abstract Internet trolling is considered a negative form of online interaction that can have detrimental effects on people’s well-being. This pre-registered, experimental study had three aims: first, to replicate the association between internet users’ online trolling behavior and the Dark Tetrad of personality (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism) established in prior research; second, to investigate the effect of experiencing social…

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