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http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/11562-010
Psychopathy is a severe personality syndrome that entails abnormalities in affective and interpersonal functioning accompanied by marked behavioral deviance. Psychopathic individuals appear charming and insouciant and exhibit a striking absence of guilt, remorse, or empathic concern for others. These characteristics have led theorists to postulate a core underlying affective deficit in psychopathy, and considerable effort has been devoted to exploring the nature of this underlying deficit. The goal of this chapter is to review evidence concerning distinctive components of the psychopathy construct and their relations with personality and neurobiological measures. Findings are discussed with reference to three influential conceptualizations of psychopathy: Cleckley's (1941/1976) classic clinical description, Hare's (1991, 2003) Psychopathy Checklist--Revised (PCL-R), and Lilienfeld's (1990) Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI). The major focus of the chapter is on the emotional-interpersonal component of psychopathy (and its affiliated positive adjustment features) and the associations this component of psychopathy shows with affect and temperament measures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)