Structural models of psychopathy

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Hare RD, Neumann CS: The PCL-R assessment of psychopathy: Development, structural properties, and new directions. In Handbook of Psychopathy. Edited by Patrick CJ. New York: Guilford; 2004, In press. This is a detailed overview of the development and structural properties of the PCL-R and its derivatives.

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Hare RD: The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Toronto: Multi-Health Systems; 1991.

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Blonigen DM, Carlson SR, Krueger RF, Patrick CJ: A twin study of self-reported psychopathic personality traits. Pers Individ Differ 2003, 35:179–197.

Viding E, Blair RJR, Moffitt TE, Plomin R: Evidence for substantial genetic risk for psychopathy in 7-year-olds. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2004, In press. This is a large-sample twin study of callous-unemotional traits and antisocial behavior. Heritability was particularly high for those with both callous-unemotional traits and antisocial behaviors.

Vitacco MJ, Rogers R, Neumann CS, et al.: A comparison of factor models on the PCL-R with mentally disordered offenders: The development of a four-factor model. Criminal Justice Behav. 2004, In press.

Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Jackson R: Testing a four-factor model of psychopathy and its association with ethnicity, gender, intelligence, and violence. J Consul Clin Psychol 2004, In press. The authors provide strong support for a four-factor model of psychopathy using data from the MacArthur Risk Assessment Study.

Hill C, Neumann CS, Rogers R: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) in offenders with Axis I Disorders. Psychol Assess 2004, 16:90–95.

Salekin RT, Neumann CS, Leistico AM, et al.: Construct validity of psychopathy in a youth offender sample: Taking a closer look at psychopathy’s potential importance over disruptive behavior disorders. J Abnorm Psychol. 2004, In press.

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Walsh ZT, Swogger MT, Kosson DS: The nature of violence in psychopathic and nonpsychopathic offenders: Instrumentality and related constructs. Society for Research in Psychopathology, Toronto, October, 2003.

Frick PJ, Cornell AH, Barry CT, et al.: Callous-unemotional traits and conduct problems in the prediction of conduct problem severity, aggression, and self-reported delinquency. J Abnorm Child Psychol 2003, 31:474–470.

Vitacco M, Neumann CS, Robertson A, Durrant S: Contributions of Impulsivity and Callousness in the Assessment of Adjudicated Adolescent Males: A Prospective Study. J Pers Assess 2002, 78:87–103.

Dowson JH, Sussams P, Grounds AT, Taylor JC: Associations of past conduct disorder with personality disorders in ‘nonpsychotic’ psychiatric patients. Euro J Psychiatry 2001, 16:49–56.

Lynam DR: Early identification of the fledgling psychopath: Locating the psychopathic child in the current nomenclature. J Abnorm Psychol 1998, 107:566–575.

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Bolt D, Hare RD, Vitale J, Newman JP: A multigroup item response theory analyses of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Psychol Assess 2004, 16:155–168. The reports on the application of item response theory to very large samples of male and female offenders assessed with the PCL-R. The results indicated that the PCL-R has good generalizability across different samples.

Cooke DJ, Kosson DS, Michie C: Psychopathy and ethnicity: Structural, item and test generalizability of the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R) in Caucasian and African-American participants. Psychol Assess 2001, 13:531–542.

Cooke DJ, Michie C: An item response theory analysis of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Psychol Assess 1997, 9:3–14.

Cooke DJ, Michie C, Hart SD, Hare RD: The functioning of the Clinical Version of the Psychopathy Checklist: An item response theory analysis. Psychol Assess 1999, 11:3–13.

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Lynam DR: Psychopathy from the perspective of the Fivefactor model of personality. In Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Edited by Costa PT, Widiger TA. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association; 2002:325–350.

Neumann CS, Vitacco MJ: Psychopathy and symptoms of psychopathology in the prediction of latent variable growth in violence. Society for Research in Psychopathology, St. Louis MO, October 7–10, 2004.

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Guay JP, Ruscio J, Hare RD, Knight RA: The latent structure of psychopathy: When more is simply more. Society for Research in Psychopathology, St. Louis MO, October 7–10, 2004.

Cooke DJ, Michie C, Hart SD, Clark DA: Reconstructing psychopathy: Clarifying the significance of antisocial and socially deviant behavior in the diagnosis of psychopathic personality disorder. J Pers Disord 2004, 18:337–356.

Neumann CS, Vitacco M, Hare RD: Re-construing the reconstruction of psychopathy: A reply to Cooke, Michie, Hart, & Clark. In submission.

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