Dimensional assessment of psychopathy and relationship with physiological response to empathic images in juvenile offenders

Objective: Many psychophysiological studies investigate whether psychopaths present low levels of electrodermal activity (EDA). However, despite evidence that varying degrees of psychopathy are normally distributed in the population, there is a paucity of EDA studies evaluating dimensionally. Moreov...

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Main Authors: Daniel M Barros, Alvaro Machado Dias, Antonio eSerafim, Gustavo eCastellana, Maria Fernanda eAchá, Geraldo eBusatto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00147/full