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To troll or not to troll: Young adults’ anti-social behaviour on social media

To troll or not to troll: Young adults’ anti-social behaviour on social media

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Felipe Bonow Soares , Anatoliy Gruzd, Jenna Jacobson, Jaigris Hodson Published: May 24, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284374 Abstract Background Online anti-social behaviour is on the rise, reducing the perceived benefits of social media in society and causing a number of negative outcomes. This research focuses on the factors associated with young adults being perpetrators of anti-social behaviour when using social media. Method Based on an online survey of university students in Canada (n = 359), we used…

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Impact of Psychopathy on Moral Judgments about Causing Fear and Physical Harm

Impact of Psychopathy on Moral Judgments about Causing Fear and Physical Harm

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Elise M. Cardinale, Abigail A. Marsh Published: May 20, 2015  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125708 Abstract Psychopathy is a personality variable associated with persistent immoral behaviors. Despite this, attempts to link moral reasoning deficits to psychopathic traits have yielded mixed results with many findings supporting intact moral reasoning in individuals with psychopathic traits. Abundant evidence shows that psychopathy impairs responses to others’ emotional distress. However, most studies of morality and psychopathy focus on judgments about causing others physical harm….

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Morality, self-control, age, type of offence and sentence length as predictors of psychopathy amongst female incarcerated offenders in South Africa

Morality, self-control, age, type of offence and sentence length as predictors of psychopathy amongst female incarcerated offenders in South Africa

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Judite Danielle de Oliveira, Jacques Jordaan , Matthew Cronjé Published: March 28, 2024  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299847 Abstract There has been an increase in female incarcerated offenders nationally and internationally. Despite this trend, literature and research on female offenders remain limited compared to their male counterparts. Evidence of the relationship between certain personality disorders and offending behaviour has led numerous countries to prioritise identifying and assessing personality disorders among the offender population. Psychopathic personality traits may contribute to…

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Impulsive and premeditated aggression in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder

Impulsive and premeditated aggression in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jacinto Azevedo , Maria Vieira-Coelho, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Rui Coelho, Margarida Figueiredo-Braga Published: March 6, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229876 Abstract Introduction Aggression is a clinical symptom of various psychiatric disorders that can be conceptualised as a physical act towards another person with the intent to cause harm. In antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), aggression is a frequent manifestation that differently compromise therapeutic and prognostic goals according to its impulsive or premeditated categorisation. ASPD is characterised by high levels of…

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Antisocial personality co-morbid with borderline personality disorder: A pathological expression of androgyny?

Antisocial personality co-morbid with borderline personality disorder: A pathological expression of androgyny?

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Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI 10.1002/pmh.1279 Commentary RICHARD C. HOWARD, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK   Psychological androgyny The concept of psychological androgyny refers to the co-occurrence in the same individual, regardless of his or her biological sex, of a comparable degree of socially desirable masculine (‘instrumental’) and feminine (‘expressive’) qualities. It has attracted considerable attention from social, personality, and developmental psychologists since the early 1970s when Bem (1974) first formulated the idea that an individual’s…

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