Psychopathy and punishment.
- 1 July 1964
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 69 (1) , 113-115
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0039798
Abstract
An experiment to test the hypothesis that psychopathy is associated with deficient passive avoidance learning under punishment. 75 High Pd and 75 Low Pd female undergraduates, equated for intelligence, learned a list of 10 nonsense syllables under 1 of 3 conditions of reinforcement: verbal reward, verbal punishment, and absence of comment by E. Punishment significantly retarded the learning of Low Pd Ss, but not that of High Pd Ss. No significant differences occurred under reward or neutral conditions. The hypothesis was considered confirmed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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