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  • Psychology
  • Social Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology

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  • Psychopathy is defined by affective deficits, interpersonal issues, and antisocial behavior.
  • Existing research often focuses on deficits in learning and threat processing.
  • Fewer studies explore impairments in affiliative processes, crucial for social bonding and cooperation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between reduced sensitivity to affiliation and psychopathic traits in adults.
  • To understand how socioaffiliative deficits may contribute to the affective features of psychopathy.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed sensitivity to affiliation using four measures capturing emotional and physical affiliative cues (videos, images, self-report).
  • Modeled sensitivity to affiliation as a latent construct in a community sample of 407 adults.
  • Analyzed the unique relationships between affiliation sensitivity and psychopathy factors/facets.

Main Results:

  • Lower sensitivity to affiliation was significantly related to higher overall psychopathy scores.
  • Reduced affiliation sensitivity was uniquely associated with higher Factor 1 and affective facet scores of psychopathy.
  • Lower affiliation sensitivity correlated with higher callous-unemotional traits.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the role of socioaffiliative and motivational deficits in the affective aspects of psychopathy.
  • These deficits may underlie impairments in social bonding and cooperation observed in psychopathy.
  • Targeting affiliative mechanisms could be a potential avenue for interventions and treatments for psychopathy.