A Bayesian Account of Psychopathy: A Model of Lacks Remorse and Self-Aggrandizing

This article proposes a formal model that integrates cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapeutic models of psychopathy to show how two major psychopathic traits called lacks remorse and self-aggrandizing can be understood as a form of abnormal Bayesian inference about the self. This model draws on...

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Main Authors: Aaron Prosser, Karl J. Friston, Nathan Bakker, Thomas Parr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2018-10-01
Series:Computational Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/cpsy_a_00016