All Outputs (4)

Identifying the Manipulative Mating Methods Associated with Psychopathic traits and BPD Features (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impulsivity: Distinct Longitudinal Relations With Mind-Mindedness and Understanding of Others (2015)
Journal Article
Centifanti, L., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impulsivity: Distinct Longitudinal Relations With Mind-Mindedness and Understanding of Others. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57(1), 84-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12445

Background: Problems in understanding other people’s mental states may relate to distinct personality traits that are associated with early externalizing behavior. A distinction between theory of mind (ToM) and empathy has proven important in sheddin... Read More about Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impulsivity: Distinct Longitudinal Relations With Mind-Mindedness and Understanding of Others.

Empathy or science? Empathy explains physical science enrollment for men and women (2015)
Journal Article
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.