Concurrent and prospective effects of psychopathic traits on affective and cognitive empathy in a community sample of late adolescents.
Background A deficit in affective rather than cognitive empathy is thought to be central to psychopathic traits. However, empirical evidence for empathy deficits in adolescents with psychopathic traits is limited. We investigated the concurrent and prospective effects of psychopathic traits on affec...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry Vol. 54; no. 9; pp. 969 - 977 |
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