Psychopathy A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 通过 EssiViding Paperback, 136 页, 发布时间 2020 通过 Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-880226-6, ISBN: 0-19-880226-9
"Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches have been devoted to murderers with psychopathic features, and we also encounter psychopaths in films and books. Individuals with psychopathy are characterised in particular by lack of empathy and guilt, manipulation of other people and, in the case of criminal psychopathy, premeditated violent behaviour. They are dangerous and c ..."
"In recent years, there has been an explosion of knowledge concerning the developmental processes that lead to persistent violent offending, and in particular, the neurobiological determinants. However, the field of violence has suffered from a divide between basic laboratory neuroscience and clinical science. Hence, this new knowledge has hitherto had little impact on government policies, prevention programmes, and on the rehabilitation ..."
"The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging and recording technologies, along with well-defined behavioral tasks -- the essential methodological tools of cognitive neuroscience -- are now being used to study development. Technological advances have yielded ..."
The Social Brain A Developmental Perspective (Hardcover) 通过 Jean Decety Hardcover, 440 页, 发布时间 2020 通过 Mit Press Ltd, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-262-04414-1, ISBN: 0-262-04414-5