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Putting cognition into sociopathy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

R. J. R. Blair
Affiliation:
MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London WC1H OBT, and Department of Psychology, University College, London WC1E 6BT, England. ucjtrjb@ucl.ac.uk;
John Morton
Affiliation:
MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London WC1H OBT, and Department of Psychology, University College, London WC1E 6BT, England.John@cdu.ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

We make three suggestions with regard to Mealey's work. First, her lack of a cognitive analysis of the sociopath results in underspecified mappings between sociobiology and behavior. Second, the developmental literature indicates that Mealey's implicit assumption, that moral socialisation is achieved through punishment, is invalid. Third, we advance the use of causal modelling to map the developmental relationships between biology, cognition, and behaviour.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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