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Psychopathic Personality Traits in College Students: Are Business Students More Psychopathic?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Do, Yean |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Psychopathy is a condition characterized by antisocial behavior and emotional impairment such as reduced empathy, shallow affect, and behaviors like threats, bullying, and violence that cause victims distress (Blair et al., 2006). Neuroimaging research has linked psychopathy to disruptions in recognizing and responding to fear-relevant stimuli like fearful expressions and situations of impending threat (Birbaumer et al., 2005; Marsh & Blair, 2008). So although fear typically elicits altruism and prosocial behavior, psychopaths are impaired in processing others’ fear cues and fail to reflect prosocial behaviors. Moreover, recent literature on “corporate psychopathy” or “successful psychopathy” suggest that a small population of subclinically psychopathic individuals tend to succeed in the business world, thanks to traits such as assertiveness, confidence, and perceived intelligence that prove advantageous in the boardroom. The present study aims to link being a business student with higher psychopathy levels and a greater impairment in the ability to judge the acceptability of causing harm to others. One hundred sixty-one healthy adult participants completed an online survey, which included three different measures: a series of moral judgment tasks, the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU), and the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/559267/Yean%20Do%20Thesis%20Abstract.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
