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- Title
“Just So” stories and sociopathy.
- Authors
Futterman, Andrew; Allen, Garland E.
- Abstract
Sociobiological explanation requires both a reliable and a valid definition of the sociopathy phenotype. Mealey assumes that such reliable and valid definition of sociopathy exists in her “Integrated Evolutionary Model.” A review of psychiatric literature on the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder clearly demonstrates that this assumption is faulty. There is substantial disagreement among diagnostic systems (e.g., RDC, DSM-III) over what constitutes the antisocial phenotype, different systems identify different individuals as sociopathic. Without a valid definition of sociopathy, sociobiological theories like Mealey's should be viewed as entirely speculative.
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 1995, Vol 18, Issue 3, p557
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X00039789