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- Title
Response Modulation Deficits: Implications for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychopathy.
- Authors
Wallace, John F.; Vitale, Jennifer E.; Newman, Joseph P.
- Abstract
Laboratory evidence indicates that a specific information-processing deficiency underlies the behavioral manifestations of psychopathy. Specifically, the automatic direction of attention and controlled processing to stimuli or information that are peripheral to ongoing goal-directed behavior or a current response set occurs less readily in psychopathic individuals. We describe how this deficiency constitutes an impairment of the response modulation process, which, in turn, impedes adaptive self-regulatory functioning. This hypothesis is contrasted with the view that antisocial behavior is the essential or core feature of psychopathy, as well as with the position that psychopathy reflects a specific deficit in the processing of affective stimuli. Finally, implications of this hypothesis for the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral interventions are discussed.
- Subjects
PSYCHOPATHY; BEHAVIOR disorders; PSYCHOPATHS; ATTENTION; RESPONSE set; ACTION theory (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 1999, Vol 13, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0889-8391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/0889-8391.13.1.55