Abstract
This article reviews the important emotional correlates of chronic antisocial behavior from the standpoint of primary and secondary psychopathy. Primary psychopaths exhibit a conspicuous lack of empathetic emotions and secondary psychopaths exhibit a conspicuous excess of inappropriate emotions. The article points out the relationship between passive-avoidance learning deficits and primary psychopathy and between central nervous system serotonergic dysfunction and primary and secondary psychopathy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 720-727 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease |
| Volume | 179 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - Dec 1991 |