James Blair

Great book that can act as a neurocognitive model when viewing psychopathy. It also cites quite a few studies on neurocognitive performance differences, and how they relate to a psychopath's functional impairment or modification. For instance, in affect and language:

Individuals with psychopathy present with notably reduced affect- ive input to linguistic processing. They present with reduced conceptual knowledge concerning moral emotions, reduced influence of affect in- formation during

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lexical decision, and notable absences of appropriate affect input on specific tasks investigating semantic knowledge. In addition, there is some suggestion of more generalized impairment in linguistic/ semantic processing.

I found it interesting that it implies psychopaths struggle to be creative. If one is a good listener, and a creative reader with a good understanding of language; they are automatically not psychopathic.

Book Contents
1 What Is Psychopathy? 1
2 The Background Facts 18
3 What Is the Ultimate Cause of Psychopathy? 28
4 The Psychopathic Individual: The Functional Impairment 47
5 Cognitive Accounts of Psychopathy 67
6 Neural Accounts of Psychopathy 81
7 A Neurocognitive Account of Reactive Aggression 96
8 A Neurocognitive Account of Psychopathy 110
9 Conundrums and Conclusions 141 show less