The Abstract submission date has been extended to 15 December 2025. We look forward to more of your best work being submitted for our SSSP 2026 conference. @ssspstudents.bsky.social psychopathysociety.org/page/Upcomin...

Callous-unemotional traits positively correlated with attachment avoidance and negatively with attachment anxiety in justice involved youth, but emotion regulation or trauma exposure do not explain that association: tinyurl.com/y6a7yv8e

Higher emotional callousness found to be correlated with lower self-concept as depending on others as an individual, but not as a member of a group; boldness associated with an independent self perception: tinyurl.com/8dvfbrd5

Differential amygdala reactivity in response to emotional facial expressions for female versus male youth with conduct problems with/without callous-unemotional traits pointing to distinct pathways: tinyurl.com/2e3x3t87

Extensive examination of self and other-reported narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian traits: higher correlation between self and other reports than expected but structural variance: tinyurl.com/4ce42nfy

Emotion recognition from music shown to be lower in 3-5 year olds with higher on callous-unemotional traits: tinyurl.com/2rx8jmh8

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Check out my lab member's entry to a CIHR IHDCYH short video competition. Here is a short video on the rise of aggression from COVID: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbv5... Here is the link to vote (vote for Suzanna Dinh): cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54519.html

A resting state based neural activity map related to the "dark triad" - higher scores on all dark triad scales related to increased Central Executive Neural Network and decreased Default Mode Network activity: tinyurl.com/5f2hhuw6

New study with women in prison showed both, hypoarousal and heightened threat reactivity: tinyurl.com/37wz2yx2 - we need to understand the emotional dysregulation in women high on psychopathy better.

Different yet partially overlapping: Autism Spectrum, Oppositional Defiant, Conduct Disorder share symptoms and vary in Emotional dysregulation and Callous-Unemotional trait links shown here: tinyurl.com/3m6h75y5

In a large Dutch longitudinal sample, SES showed protective role for effects of psychopathy on criminality, but parental absence, parental monitoring and adverse childhood experiences moderate effects on criminality: tinyurl.com/mu7y85et @msellbom.bsky.social

2x Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology positions at Flinders University. Both full-time research and teaching continuing (tenure track equivalent) positions that are open in terms of the field of psychological research. Happy to answer any questions!

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.

We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.

How are psychopathic traits and sadism related to executive functioning in a general population sample? Sadism related to enhanced functions, but Erratic Lifestyle, Callous Affect and Antisocial Behavior each related to reduced functional impairment: tinyurl.com/3k46aze6

Persistence of psychopathic traits and related offending in young people, turning points have little impact: tinyurl.com/4emmb23s

Young people with callous-unemotional traits who are easily cognitively overloaded show less prosocial behavior, but those not affected by cognitive demands don't show such reduction: tinyurl.com/ycyac5en

Great discussion by Eva Kimonis and colleague of a paper discussing reflections of health carers about "difficult-to-treat" veteran clients, touching on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits - a call to work on this: tinyurl.run/aZU1pe @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social

New meta analysis shows that (mainly secondary) psychopathy is related to lower task performance, worse organizational citizenship behavior and more counterproductive work behavior: tinyurl.run/xGe8ow

Not peer victimization but harsh parenting found to be related to higher CU traits, especially in those highly irritable, and lower cortisol related to higher CU traits: tinyurl.com/4y49dkt6

Less warm parenting due to more parental stress seems to be aggravated by callous-unemotional traits in young people with conduct problems - very relevant and needs replication in a larger sample: tinyurl.com/mws4bx7r

Higher callous-unemotional traits in young people with conduct problems are related to more gun violence, which is mediated by maternal hostility (but not by parenting practices nor maternal warmth): tinyurl.com/4yv3aw92

Great review on the role of molecules for callous-unemotional traits: tinyurl.com/53nkmeu7

Network analysis for the PCL-R: finding both, a one factor and a four-factor-structure; Lack of Empathy showed strongest connection to all four factors: tinyurl.com/5fmcx87j

Structural connectome-based analysis of young adults showed positive associations with social-affective, language and reward processing regions, and negative associations with attention modulation regions - BUT only based on the short dark triad measure! tinyurl.com/2due9wnb

Women with lethal violent convictions and severe mental disorder shown to have lower PCL-R total and interpersonal facet scores, and higher arousal and planning related to their offense: tinyurl.com/mwxffbzz

To be expected coming at some point: a suggestion for an algorithm deriving "psychopathy" from 68 pieces of information (parental, interpersonal, personality, psychological, socio-demographic, prison behavior) - 87% accuracy in matching PCL-R levels: tinyurl.com/mr334bp2

Maternal parenting stress and paternal helplessness found to be related to higher child callous-unemotional traits (controlling for conduct problems): tinyurl.com/58wzy5hp

New study by colleagues from our department shows how voters varying in authoritarianism vary in how much psychopathic traits they assigned to candidates for presidency: ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ej...

Such an honor to receive the Postdoc Award at the Early Career Event for @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social & @ssspstudents.bsky.social last Friday and even more special that Dr. Robert Hare was in attendance! HUGE thank you to the planning & awards committees!

Noticias: Consulte las nuevas versiones en español de nuestras páginas web New: our webpages are now also available in Spanish (see Español link on each English page) psychopathysociety.org psychopathysociety.org/page/SSSP-S

Big congratulations to the awardees of the 2025 SSSP ECE: Cheryl Wynn Hare Award (Masters): Yisha Gu, University of New South Wales Cheyl Wynn Hare Award (PhD): Emmely Delamillieure, Ghent University Joe and Alida Newman Award (Postdoc): Emily Kemp, University of California, San Diego 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

What a great SSSP Early Career Event came to a close today! A round of great talks and posters presented by terrific scientists! Big thanks to all presenters and to the ECE organising committee including @ssspstudents.bsky.social 🙌

Pumped to reunite with my @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social @ssspstudents.bsky.social folks at the biennial early career event!

Psychotherapeut:innen gesucht! Ab September haben wir weitere Stellen in unserer Hochschulambulanz zu vergeben. Alles wichtigen Infos stehen in der Ausschreibung. Ich freue mich über Fragen auf Bluesky oder per Email und natürlich über Bewerbungen :-)! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...

Poster: Exploring the relationship between conduct problems, callous-unemotional traits, and executive function in middle childhood Friday, May 2, 2025 4:40 PM Poster Number: 161

The SSSP Early Career Event (online) is just one week away and a program packed with new research on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits is waiting for you: check out the details and register to attend here: psychopathysociety.org/page/ECE2025

Fun question for all my SSSP Psychopathy researchers. Do you watch shows/movies about psychopaths? (You, Adolescents, etc) @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social

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Happy to report this work was accepted for publication in the Journal of Affective Disorders and can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Are callous-unemotional (CU) traits purely affective, or do they also involve cognitive processes? A recent RCT finds CU traits uniquely linked to cognitive-affective interaction difficulties that also associated with antisocial behavior. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Very excited that our meta-analysis is now published: no matter if psychopathic personality is self-reported or interview-/record-based rated, there seem no consistent effects on emotional reactivity: tinyurl.com/bdd5ebbd - great collaboration with colleagues from @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social

Submissions for the SSSP Early Career Event, our virtual biannual conference for students and early-career professionals held May 7-9, 2025 are due this Friday February 28, 2025: tinyurl.com/5azetttr

Re-visiting the pathways of young people to conduct problems: later maladjustment if preceded by conduct problems, however what sets up for a lifetime persistent path of conduct problems is hard to define: tinyurl.com/y3rcawxm

Externalising polygenic score can tell something about direct genetic effects for conduct problems and ADHD symptoms across development, but less for CU traits: tinyurl.com/h4wk8dzh

with @intibrazil.bsky.social and others @dondersinst.bsky.social @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social @ssspstudents.bsky.social

Validity of the PCL:SV for New Zealand correctional groups shown here: tinyurl.com/3drhdpka