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originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: ATODASO
Testing for psychopaths and sociopaths however, is necessary for the protection of the company from corruption, and the nation/planet from some of the most remorseless, relentless, and utterly soulless people ever to have walked on the face of this Earth.
she hooked up a batch of certified psychos to electrodes...
To test her ideas, Carolyn assembled 50 participants, mostly from among students, who underwent a series of tests – conducted in strict confidence – beginning with an appraisal of IQ levels using a standard procedure. Then they completed the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, which established which participants had either Factor One or Factor Two psychopathic tendencies.
The conclusion is that those with higher IQs had sufficient intelligence to fake their emotional response, making it more difficult to detect their condition.
originally posted by: Zarniwoop
a reply to: ATODASO
"To test her ideas, Carolyn assembled 50 participants, mostly from among students, who underwent a series of tests – conducted in strict confidence – beginning with an appraisal of IQ levels using a standard procedure. Then they completed the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, which established which participants had either Factor One or Factor Two psychopathic tendencies. "
It appears to me that all she really found with this small study is that folks with higher intelligence can fake their emotional responses.
to be clear, the physiological test that measures for response to negative stimuli in no way screens for intelligence.
originally posted by: Zarniwoop
a reply to: ATODASO
to be clear, the physiological test that measures for response to negative stimuli in no way screens for intelligence.
I'm not debating that. She screened the folks for intelligence and a test for "psychopathic tendencies" and found that the more intelligent folks could fake emotions to negative stimuli better. That's about it. There were no "certified psychos" involved here.
Now. Should employers screen for psychopathic tendencies for their top positions? They do that already... At least the larger companies do.
sorry, but the way i'm reading it, she ran the iq test first, then the cleckley checklist, or whatever. so the people who participated in the first test, but didn't score high on the psychopathy test were eliminated from the study regardless of their intelligence. leaving only the dumb and smart probable psychopaths.
right?
originally posted by: TrueBrit
...carving out their little fiefdoms and scouring all else with their inherant villany.
What I am getting at, is that ONLY psychopathic or sociopathic traits must ever be extensively tested for by employers. Any other psychometric testing would be discriminatory. Testing for psychopaths and sociopaths however, is necessary for the protection of the company from corruption, and the nation/planet from some of the most remorseless, relentless, and utterly soulless people ever to have walked on the face of this Earth.
There is no indication in the article that any of the 50 were weeded out by any means.
This study examined the relationships between psychopathy (primary and secondary), intelligence and emotional responding in a sample of 50 university students, using a task measuring autonomic responses to 40 pictorial stimuli (20 neutral and 20 emotionally provoking). Results indicated no significant direct relationship between primary or secondary psychopathy and emotional response, or primary or secondary psychopathy and intelligence. However, a significant moderating effect of intelligence on the association between both psychopathy factors and emotional response was observed, indicating those scoring higher on psychopathy but with lower intelligence portray the expected emotional responses to the affective stimuli... These findings indicate abnormal reactivity to emotional stimuli in lower intelligence, higher psychopathic individuals, and suggest differing roles for the two facets of psychopathy in affective responsiveness deviations...
www.tandfonline.com...-uY
On a related note, if you look at the questions on the tendencies test, you'll notice they are pretty obvious in relation to which bucket one would be tossed into. Any smart person would be able to fake that test.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
I am sorry to disappoint you EvillerBob, but on this issue I give myself permission to be as unreasonable as I have to be, to see psychopaths wiped from the history books, and burned to the ground in agony. They are bad for individuals, bad for countries, and bad for this species.