Psychopathic personality traits and iowa gambling task performance in incarcerated offenders

Melissa A. Hughe; Mairead C. Dolan; Jennifer S. Trueblood; Julie C. Stout

doi:10.1080/13218719.2014.919689

Psychopathic personality traits and iowa gambling task performance in incarcerated offenders

Melissa A. Hughe^*, Mairead C. Dolan, Jennifer S. Trueblood, Julie C. Stout

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Abstract

There is a paucity of research on how psychopathy relates to decision-making. In this study, we assessed the relationship between affective decision-making and psychopathic personality. A sample of prisoners (n=49) was characterized in terms of psychopathic traits using the Psychopathic Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV). Decision-making was assessed using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Higher levels of psychopathy related to more advantageous choices (p =.003). Also counter-intuitively, higher levels of antisocial traits (facet 4) predicted advantageous choices during the learning phase of the task (p =.004). Our findings suggest that some psychopathic facets may be more relevant to decisionmaking under risk, and highlight the importance of further investigations considering facet and trait-level relationships with decision-making

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	134-144
Number of pages	11
Journal	Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2014.919689
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cognition
Decision-making
Executive function
Learning
Personality disorder/ antisocial personality disorder
Prisoners

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