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| Stephen D BenningSummaryAffiliation: University of Minnesota Country: USA Publications
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Estimating facets of psychopathy from normal personality traits: a step toward community epidemiological investigationsStephen D Benning
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Assessment 12:3-18. 2005..Additionally, PPI-I was selectively related to the interpersonal facet of Factor 1 of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), whereas PPI-II was related preferentially to Factor 2 of the PCL-R...- Convergent and discriminant validity of psychopathy factors assessed via self-report: a comparison of three instrumentsStephen D Benning
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, MN 55455, USA
Assessment 12:270-89. 2005..Results suggest ways in which the measurement of the constructs in each instrument may be improved... - Psychopathy, startle blink modulation, and electrodermal reactivity in twin menStephen D Benning
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Psychophysiology 42:753-62. 2005..Participants high in fearless dominance also exhibited deficient skin conductance magnitudes specifically to aversive pictures. Findings encourage further investigation of psychopathy and its etiology in community samples... 
The role of fearless dominance in psychopathy: confusions, controversies, and clarificationsScott O Lilienfeld
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Personal Disord 3:327-40. 2012..A scientific approach to psychopathy requires the question of whether its subdimensions are linked to adaptive functioning to be adjudicated by data, not by fiat...- Effects of picture content and intensity on affective physiological responseEdward Bernat
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Psychophysiology 43:93-103. 2006..These results indicate that stimulus parameters of intensity and thematic content exert separate-and in some cases interactive-modulatory effects on physiological reactions to emotional pictures... - Factors of the psychopathic personality inventory: criterion-related validity and relationship to the BIS/BAS and five-factor models of personalityScott R Ross
Department of Psychology, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135, USA
Assessment 16:71-87. 2009.... - Linking antisocial behavior, substance use, and personality: an integrative quantitative model of the adult externalizing spectrumRobert F Krueger
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:645-66. 2007..The authors discuss the utility of this model for framing research on the correlates and the etiology of externalizing phenomena... - Construct validity of the psychopathic personality inventory two-factor model with offendersChristopher J Patrick
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, USA
Psychol Assess 18:204-8. 2006..These results highlight the importance of examining facets of psychopathy as well as total scores... 
Criterion-related validity of the three-factor model of psychopathy: personality, behavior, and adaptive functioningJason R Hall
Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research Training Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Assessment 11:4-16. 2004..These findings provide support for the convergent and discriminant validity of these psychopathy facets...- Postauricular and superior auricular reflex modulation during emotional pictures and soundsStephen D Benning
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
Psychophysiology 48:410-4. 2011..Additionally, postauricular reflexes were significantly modulated for both emotional pictures and sounds; in both cases, postauricular reflexes were greatest during pleasant stimuli... - Factor structure of the psychopathic personality inventory: validity and implications for clinical assessmentStephen D Benning
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
Psychol Assess 15:340-50. 2003..Findings support using the PPI to assess these facets of psychopathy in community samples and to explore their behavioral correlates and genetic-neurobiological underpinnings... - The onset of puberty: effects on the psychophysiology of defensive and appetitive motivationKarina M Quevedo
University of Minnesota, USA
Dev Psychopathol 21:27-45. 2009.... - Emotional modulation of the post-auricular reflexStephen D Benning
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Psychophysiology 41:426-32. 2004..This modulatory effect did not vary as a function of picture content, but it was most robust for highly intense emotional pictures. Implications for the assessment of basic emotional action tendencies are discussed... - Mesolimbic dopamine reward system hypersensitivity in individuals with psychopathic traitsJoshua W Buckholtz
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Nat Neurosci 13:419-21. 2010..These findings suggest that neurochemical and neurophysiological hyper-reactivity of the dopaminergic reward system may comprise a neural substrate for impulsive-antisocial behavior and substance abuse in psychopathy... - Symptoms of executive dysfunction are endemic to secondary psychopathy: an examination in criminal offenders and noninstitutionalized young adultsScott R Ross
DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135, USA
J Pers Disord 21:384-99. 2007..These findings underscore the role of prefrontal circuitry in psychopathy, and specifically implicate executive dysfunction in secondary psychopathy...
Research Grants
- Emotional Modulation of the Post-Auricular ReflexSTEPHEN BENNING; Fiscal Year: 2004..The effects of gender and ear of recording on the modulation of the PA reflex will be investigated in both studies. ..