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Sociopathy or hyper-masculinity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Anne Campbell*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Durham University, Science Laboratories, Durham DH1 3LE, England, a.campbell@durham.ac.uk

Abstract

Definitional slippage threatens to equate secondary sociopathy with mere criminality and leaves the status of noncriminal sociopaths ambiguous. Primary sociopathy appears to show more environmental contingency than would be implied by a strong genetic trait approach. A reinterpretation in terms of hypermasculinity and hypofemininity is compatible with the data.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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