Exploring the relationship between psychopathy and helping behaviors in naturalistic settings : preliminary findings

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Title: Exploring the relationship between psychopathy and helping behaviors in naturalistic settings : preliminary findings
Related: Journal of general psychology, Vol. 143, No. 4, (2016), p.254-266
DOI: 10.1080/00221309.2016.1214099
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2016
Author/Creator: Mahmut, Mehmet K
Author/Creator: Cridland, Louise
Author/Creator: Stevenson, Richard J
Description: This study examined the helping behavior of participants with high (High-P; 15 males, 13 females) and low (Low-P; 14 males, 16 females) psychopathic traits without their awareness. In the first of three tests, we found Low-P participants offered more help to an apparently lost female confederate than High-P participants. In the second test, High-P compared to Low-P males offered more help to an “injured” female experimenter, the reverse was true for females. In the third test, High-P compared to Low-P females offered more help to a female confederate who had apparently dropped papers they were carrying; whereas the reverse was true for males. Our preliminary findings indicate that context, gender and psychopathic traits interact and impact helping behavior.
Description: 13 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Individual differences
Subject Keyword: observational methods
Subject Keyword: personality
Subject Keyword: prosocial behaviour
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Department of Psychology

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