"Previous research on psychopathy, establishing its characteristics and ways to measure it, has often used criminal offender populations. These studies identified four latent profiles that include: callous/conning (manipulative and lacking feeling), sociopathic/externalizing (erratic and antisocial lifestyle), a "prototypic" psychopath (high on all factors), and a "general offender" (low on all factors, but still a prisoner). Reading these qualities, you might be reminded not of all the variants of Law and Order in which psychopathic criminals take center stage. They're usually not that hard to spot."
"which tries to find "latent" profiles of the trait of psychopathy in ordinary people. "Latent" here is a statistical term that means what it sounds like. Underneath the layers of personality, is it possible to find a deeper undercurrent that exists within everyone? One unique feature of the Castagna and Kinkade study was its use of what's called a "person-centered" approach to tap into that psychopathic undercurrent."
Psychopathy is characterized by manipulation, cheating, lying, callousness, and antisocial behavior. Four latent psychopathy profiles have been identified: callous/conning (manipulative and lacking feeling), sociopathic/externalizing (erratic and antisocial lifestyle), a prototypic psychopath (high on all factors), and a general offender (low on all factors but still a prisoner). A person-centered approach profiles individual cases and groups them into classes of types. Latent psychopathic traits can exist beneath ordinary personality layers and may appear in noncriminal populations. Recognizing behavioral warning signs in everyday people can aid early identification of harmful tendencies.
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