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Effects of Psychopathy on Neurocognitive Domains of Impulsivity in Abstinent Opiate and Stimulant Users (2021)
Journal Article
Psederska, E., Thomson, N. D., Bozgunov, K., Nedelchev, D., Vasilev, G., & Vassileva, J. (2021). Effects of Psychopathy on Neurocognitive Domains of Impulsivity in Abstinent Opiate and Stimulant Users. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, Article 660810. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.660810

Background: Psychopathy and substance use disorders (SUDs) are both characterized by neurocognitive impairments reflecting higher levels of impulsivity such as reward-driven decision-making and deficient inhibitory control. Previous studies suggest t... Read More about Effects of Psychopathy on Neurocognitive Domains of Impulsivity in Abstinent Opiate and Stimulant Users.

Violence and aggression in young women: The importance of psychopathy and neurobiological function (2018)
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Thomson, N. D., Kiehl, K. A., & Bjork, J. M. (2019). Violence and aggression in young women: The importance of psychopathy and neurobiological function. Physiology & Behavior, 201, 130-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.11.043

Psychopathy is one of the most researched risk factors for violence. Yet, research in women is sparse. The present study aimed to test if the link between the four-facet structure of psychopathy and interpersonal violence and aggression was moderated... Read More about Violence and aggression in young women: The importance of psychopathy and neurobiological function.

Proactive and Reactive Aggression Subgroups in Typically Developing Children: The Role of Executive Functioning, Psychophysiology, and Psychopathy (2017)
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Thomson, N. D., & Centifanti, L. C. (2018). Proactive and Reactive Aggression Subgroups in Typically Developing Children: The Role of Executive Functioning, Psychophysiology, and Psychopathy. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 49(2), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-017-0741-0

This study aimed to assess whether groups of aggressive children differed on psychopathic traits, and neuropsychological and neurobiological measures of prefrontal functioning consistent with the objectives of their aggression—reactive or proactive.... Read More about Proactive and Reactive Aggression Subgroups in Typically Developing Children: The Role of Executive Functioning, Psychophysiology, and Psychopathy.

The habitual female offender inside: How psychopathic traits predict chronic prison violence (2016)
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Thomson, N., Towl, G., & Centifanti, L. (2016). The habitual female offender inside: How psychopathic traits predict chronic prison violence. Law and Human Behavior, 40(3), 257-269. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000178

Psychopathy is considered one of the best predictors of violence and prison misconducts and is arguably an important clinical construct in the correctional setting. However, we tested whether psychopathy can be used to predict misconducts in prison e... Read More about The habitual female offender inside: How psychopathic traits predict chronic prison violence.

Identifying the Manipulative Mating Methods Associated with Psychopathic traits and BPD Features (2015)
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Centifanti, L., Thomson, N., & Kwok, A. (2016). Identifying the Manipulative Mating Methods Associated with Psychopathic traits and BPD Features. Journal of personality disorders, 30(6), 721-741. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2015_29_225

Psychopathy and borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits are associated with coercion and manipulation within relationships. The authors investigated whether BPD traits were uniquely associated with manipulation for emotional closeness whereas ps... Read More about Identifying the Manipulative Mating Methods Associated with Psychopathic traits and BPD Features.

Types of Relational Aggression in Girls Are Differentiated by Callous-Unemotional Traits, Peers and Parental Overcontrol (2015)
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Centifanti, L., Fanti, K., Thomson, N., Demetriou, V., & Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, X. (2015). Types of Relational Aggression in Girls Are Differentiated by Callous-Unemotional Traits, Peers and Parental Overcontrol. Behavioral Sciences, 5(4), 518-536. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs5040518

Adolescent girls often perpetrate aggression by gossiping and spreading rumours about others, by attempting to ruin relationships and by manipulating and excluding others. Further, males and females engage in reactive and proactive relational aggress... Read More about Types of Relational Aggression in Girls Are Differentiated by Callous-Unemotional Traits, Peers and Parental Overcontrol.

Empathy or science? Empathy explains physical science enrollment for men and women (2015)
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Thomson, N., Wurtzburg, S., & Centifanti, L. (2015). Empathy or science? Empathy explains physical science enrollment for men and women. Learning and Individual Differences, 40, 115-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2015.04.003

Those in the physical sciences work to understand relationships among non-social entities and this may come at a cost to their understanding of social relationships. Alternatively, it could be that those in the physical sciences differ in how comfort... Read More about Empathy or science? Empathy explains physical science enrollment for men and women.