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Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 531–544.īook, A. Psychopathy and the perception of affect and vulnerability. Psychopaths: cheaters or warrior-hawks? Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 33–45. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29, 491–498.īook, A. A selective impairment in the processing of sad and fearful facial expressions in children with psychopathic tendencies. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(1), 5–7.īlair, R. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 71, 727–731.īlair, R. Neurocognitive models of aggression, the antisocial personality disorders, and psychopathy. Overall, the study also lends support to the use of video game paradigms for investigating behavior.īlair, R. As well, people higher on psychopathic traits appear to engage in different behaviors depending upon the target of their behavior. Overall, there was some support for the Cheater-Hawk Hypothesis. With respect to specific characters, participants with psychopathic traits used primarily hawk behaviors with the cheater and dove and cheater behaviors with the hawk (in keeping with predictions).
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Overall, people with psychopathic traits used more hawk behaviors (mean and fight behaviors), irrespective of character, but they did not use more of the cheater-related behaviors (“friendly,” “funny,” and “complimenting” behaviors). Interactions between game characters were coded for charm, friendliness, and provoked/unprovoked aggression (“mean” and “fight” behaviors). Participants played The Sims 3 video game with four pre-made same-sex roommate characters whose personalities were selected to represent a cheater, a hawk, a cooperator, and a dove. We investigated the Cheater-Hawk Hypothesis of psychopathy in a sample of 205 undergraduate students.