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The Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRP; Paulhus et al. 2009) is a widely used self-report measure of psychopathy. As measured by the SRP, psychopathy is defined as a pathological personality style marked by interpersonal (e.g., deceitfulness and grandiosity), affective (e.g., lack of empathy and remorse), lifestyle (e.g., impulsivity and sensation-seeking), and antisocial (e.g., delinquency and criminality) features. Psychopathy has been shown to predict criminal behavior, delinquency, recidivism, and violence.
Introduction
Robert Hare’s model of forensic psychopathy has been considered the most influential model since the early work of Cleckley (1941/1976) in the mid-1900s (Paulhus et al. in press). Hare originally put forth a unitary model of psychopathy composed of two correlated factors (i.e., personality factor and behavioral factor). He later revised this model by breaking the two factors down into four facets: interpersonal and affective facets making up the...
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Massa, A.A., Eckhardt, C.I. (2017). Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRP). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_83-1
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