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UK
/saɪkˈəʊpəθi/
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[ US /saɪˈkɑpəθi/ ]
[ US /saɪˈkɑpəθi/ ]
NOUN
- any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
How To Use psychopathy In A Sentence
- The results of the current study also strengthen claims that psychopathy is a neurocognitive disorder that is apparent across the lifespan.
- The results of the current study also strengthen claims that psychopathy is a neurocognitive disorder that is apparent across the lifespan.
- He's the world's pre-eminent expert on psychopathy and a regular advisor to the FBI.
- His early research demonstrated that individuals diagnosed with psychopathy showed diminished electrodermal responding to a conditioned stimulus in anticipation of shock.
- This CAT has seriously Psychopathy, KEEP OFF unless you are a Psychopathy Specialist.
- Stuart Kinner is interested in an evolutionary model of psychopathy, a sort of disturbing explanation that says psychopaths exist because they're well-adapted to our society.
- He's the world's pre-eminent expert on psychopathy and a regular advisor to the FBI.
- The ICD-10 diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization also lacks psychopathy as a personality disorder, its 1992 manual including Dissocial (Antisocial) Personality Disorder, which encompasses amoral, antisocial, asocial, psychopathic, and sociopathic personalities. Kim Cranston: Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide
- This model specifically predicts that individuals with psychopathy will be more likely than nonpsychopathic individuals to persist in a previously rewarded response, even if the rate of punishment for this response increases.
- The first question is one that cannot be answered with total certainty but, like most personality traits, psychopathy does in general seem to be inborn and genetically inherited.