Investigating social-contextual determinants of cooperation in incarcerated violent offenders.

ABSTRACT: Antisocial and psychopathic personality traits constitute a severe and treatment resistant form of externalizing psychopathology. While deficits in social information processing have been extensively investigated in these individuals, less is known about their capacity for altruism and cooperation. In particular, no studies to date have investigated whether established social-contextual determinants of cooperation, e.g., group affiliation and number of expected interactions, can motivate cooperative behaviour in antisocial individuals. The present study compared cooperative behaviour of incarcerated violent offenders (N = 52) and controls (N = 46) by using an established social interaction paradigm (Give Some Dilemma) where two players divide monetary units between themselves and the count

SUBMITTER: Scheeff J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249259 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature