Christopher J Patrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher J Patrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher J |
| FAMILY NAME | Patrick |
| SIGNATURE | PATRICK C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9581-8168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Electrodermal reactivity in an aversive countdown task
Our finding of an inverse relationship between SC reactivity and parent-rated boldness at W1 corroborates evidence from prior adult research and points to low fear (threat sensitivity) as the basis of deficient stress responding in psychopathy. The finding of contrasting predictive relations for W1 SC reactivity and W1 parent-rated boldness with ASB at W3 suggests differing roles for elements of threat sensitivity tapped by each (e.g., low anxiou…
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior
Development and Initial Validation of Two Brief Measures of Left-Wing Authoritarianism
Although authoritarianism has predominantly been studied among political conservatives, authoritarian individuals exist on both "poles" of the political spectrum. A 39-item multidimensional measure of left-wing authoritarianism, the Left-wing Authoritarianism Index, was recently developed to extend the study of authoritarianism to members of the far-left. The present study coupled a fully automated machine learning approach (i.e., a genetic algor…
Adverse perinatal events and offspring criminal convictions in men and women
We examined associations of adverse perinatal events with offspring violent and non-violent criminal convictions in men and women. All singleton births between 1973 and 1995 (n = 1,146,570 men, n = 1,085,217 women) were identified through Swedish population-based registers. Information about adverse perinatal events was retrieved from the Medical Birth Register. Outcomes were criminal convictions collected from the National Crime Register. We est…
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners
The validity of self‐report psychopathy assessment has been questioned, especially in forensic settings where clinical evaluations influence critical decision‐making (e.g., institutional placement, parole eligibility). Informant‐based assessment offers a potentially valuable supplement to self‐report but is challenging to acquire in under‐resourced forensic contexts. The current study evaluated, within an incarcerated sample ( n = 322), the exten…
Triarchic Neurobehavioral Correlates of Psychopathology in Young Children
), which demonstrate compatibility with established temperament models and can be quantified using items from different existing inventories, are well-suited to pursuing these goals. We undertook to develop item-based scales for indexing these traits in 285 children (ages 5-10) tested in the Child Mind Institute's Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study, and evaluated their psychometric properties in two separate samples of similar-aged children: 519 o…
The startle reflex as an indicator of psychopathic personality from childhood to adulthood
Integrating criminological and mental health perspectives on low self-control
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
Triarchic Model of Psychopathy
The triarchic model ( P atrick, F owles, & K rueger, 2009) was formulated to reconcile contrasting conceptions of psychopathy reflected in historic writings and contemporary assessment instruments, and to address persisting unresolved issues in the field. The model conceives of psychopathy as encompassing three distinct but interrelated phenotypic dispositions—disinhibition, boldness, and meanness—with biological referents. These dispositional co…
Understanding the role of conscientiousness in healthy aging
In reviewing this impressive series of articles, I was struck by 2 points in particular: (a) the fact that the empirically oriented articles focused on analyses of data from very large samples, with the articles by Friedman, Kern, Hampson, and Duckworth (2014) and Kern, Hampson, Goldbert, and Friedman (2014) highlighting an approach to merging existing data sets through use of "metric bridges" to address key questions not addressable through 1 da…
Evidence for a heritable brain basis to deviance-promoting deficits in self-control
The role of fearless dominance in psychopathy
Based on their 2011 meta-analysis of the correlates of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI), Miller and Lynam (An examination of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory's nomological network: A meta-analytic review, Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 3, 305-326) conclude that its Fearless Dominance (PPI-FD) higher-order dimension exhibits weak construct validity, leading them to question the relevance of boldness to th…
Psychopathic Personality
Few psychological concepts evoke simultaneously as much fascination and misunderstanding as psychopathic personality, or psychopathy. Typically, individuals with psychopathy are misconceived as fundamentally different from the rest of humanity and as inalterably dangerous. Popular portrayals of are diverse and conflicting, ranging from uncommonly impulsive and violent criminal offenders to corporate figures who callously and skillfully manuever t…
Linking dimensional models of internalizing psychopathology to neurobiological systems
Integrative hierarchical models have sought to account for the extensive comorbidity between various internalizing disorders in terms of broad individual difference factors these disorders share. However, such models have been developed largely on the basis of self-report and diagnostic symptom data. Toward the goal of linking such models to neurobiological systems, we reviewed studies that have employed variants of the affect-modulated startle p…
Linking antisocial behavior, substance use, and personality
Antisocial behavior, substance use, and impulsive and aggressive personality traits often co-occur, forming a coherent spectrum of personality and psychopathology. In the current research, the authors developed a novel quantitative model of this spectrum. Over 3 waves of iterative data collection, 1,787 adult participants selected to represent a range across the externalizing spectrum provided extensive data about specific externalizing behaviors…
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to…
Intoxication level and emotional response
We used affective modulation of the eye-blink component of the startle reflex to examine effects of three levels of alcohol intoxication and a no-intoxication control on emotional responses to pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures. Non-problematic student drinkers (n=101; 48 female) were randomly assigned to intoxication groups. Normal inhibition of startle during exposure to pleasant pictures was intact across groups. In contrast, potentiat…
Handbook of Psychopathy
Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Lykken, Psychopathic Personality: The Scope of the Problem. Fowles, Dindo, A Dual-Deficit Model of Psychopathy. Blackburn, Other Theoretical Models of Psychopathy. Hare, Neumann, The PCL-R Assessment of Psychopathy: Development, Structural Properties, and New Directions. Part II: Issues in Conceptualization and Assessment. Cooke, Michie, Hart, Facets of Clinical Psychopathy: Toward Clearer Measuremen…
Factor Structure of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by impulsive antisocial deviance in the context of emotional and interpersonal detachment. A factor analysis of the subscales of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) yielded evidence for 2 factors. One factor showed relations with external criteria mirroring those of the emotional-interpersonal facet of psychopathy, including high dominance, low anxiety, and venturesomeness. The other fa…
Etiologic connections among substance dependence, antisocial behavior and personality
A hierarchical biometric model is presented of the origins of comorbidity among substance dependence, antisocial behavior, and a disinhibited personality style. The model posits a spectrum of personality and psychopathology, united by an externalizing factor linked to each phenotype within the spectrum, as well as specific factors that account for distinctions among phenotypes within the spectrum. This model fit self-report and mother-report data…
Development and validation of a brief form of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.
Beyond stress and arousal
In this review, the authors examine how psychophysiological research might better contribute to understanding the effects of alcohol on human emotion. They propose that future studies would benefit from greater use of contemporary theories of emotion that emphasize a dimensional structure of affective expression, incorporating the parameters of emotional arousal and emotional valence. Evidence suggests that, although alcohol exerts an overall dam…
Beyond stress and arousal
Evidence for a heritable brain basis to deviance-promoting deficits in self-control
Linking dimensional models of internalizing psychopathology to neurobiological systems
Integrative hierarchical models have sought to account for the extensive comorbidity between various internalizing disorders in terms of broad individual difference factors these disorders share. However, such models have been developed largely on the basis of self-report and diagnostic symptom data. Toward the goal of linking such models to neurobiological systems, we reviewed studies that have employed variants of the affect-modulated startle p…
Observer judgments of acute pain
We provided a microanalytic description of facial reactions to a series of painful and nonpainful electric shocks and examined the impact of these as discrete facial cues for observer judgments of acute pain. Thirty female volunteers were videotaped and reported their discomfort in response to electric shocks after earlier exposure to one of three social influence conditions: a tolerant model, an intolerant model, or neutral peer presence. We cod…
Facial expression during induced pain
Facial expressions contribute substantially to judgments of sufferer's pain but have not been rigorously described. We obtained a detailed description of 72 female volunteers' facial reactions to the cold pressor experience, using Ekman and Friesen's (1978a) objective, anatomically based Facial Action Coding System. In addition, we examined the impact of exposure to social models tolerant or intolerant to pain. The facial actions systematically p…
Adverse perinatal events and offspring criminal convictions in men and women
We examined associations of adverse perinatal events with offspring violent and non-violent criminal convictions in men and women. All singleton births between 1973 and 1995 (n = 1,146,570 men, n = 1,085,217 women) were identified through Swedish population-based registers. Information about adverse perinatal events was retrieved from the Medical Birth Register. Outcomes were criminal convictions collected from the National Crime Register. We est…
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement
Integrating criminological and mental health perspectives on low self-control
Facial expression during induced pain
Facial expressions contribute substantially to judgments of sufferer's pain but have not been rigorously described. We obtained a detailed description of 72 female volunteers' facial reactions to the cold pressor experience, using Ekman and Friesen's (1978a) objective, anatomically based Facial Action Coding System. In addition, we examined the impact of exposure to social models tolerant or intolerant to pain. The facial actions systematically p…
Observer judgments of acute pain
We provided a microanalytic description of facial reactions to a series of painful and nonpainful electric shocks and examined the impact of these as discrete facial cues for observer judgments of acute pain. Thirty female volunteers were videotaped and reported their discomfort in response to electric shocks after earlier exposure to one of three social influence conditions: a tolerant model, an intolerant model, or neutral peer presence. We cod…
Beyond stress and arousal
In this review, the authors examine how psychophysiological research might better contribute to understanding the effects of alcohol on human emotion. They propose that future studies would benefit from greater use of contemporary theories of emotion that emphasize a dimensional structure of affective expression, incorporating the parameters of emotional arousal and emotional valence. Evidence suggests that, although alcohol exerts an overall dam…
Beyond stress and arousal
Etiologic connections among substance dependence, antisocial behavior and personality
A hierarchical biometric model is presented of the origins of comorbidity among substance dependence, antisocial behavior, and a disinhibited personality style. The model posits a spectrum of personality and psychopathology, united by an externalizing factor linked to each phenotype within the spectrum, as well as specific factors that account for distinctions among phenotypes within the spectrum. This model fit self-report and mother-report data…
Development and validation of a brief form of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.
Factor Structure of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by impulsive antisocial deviance in the context of emotional and interpersonal detachment. A factor analysis of the subscales of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) yielded evidence for 2 factors. One factor showed relations with external criteria mirroring those of the emotional-interpersonal facet of psychopathy, including high dominance, low anxiety, and venturesomeness. The other fa…
Linking antisocial behavior, substance use, and personality
Antisocial behavior, substance use, and impulsive and aggressive personality traits often co-occur, forming a coherent spectrum of personality and psychopathology. In the current research, the authors developed a novel quantitative model of this spectrum. Over 3 waves of iterative data collection, 1,787 adult participants selected to represent a range across the externalizing spectrum provided extensive data about specific externalizing behaviors…
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to…
Intoxication level and emotional response
We used affective modulation of the eye-blink component of the startle reflex to examine effects of three levels of alcohol intoxication and a no-intoxication control on emotional responses to pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures. Non-problematic student drinkers (n=101; 48 female) were randomly assigned to intoxication groups. Normal inhibition of startle during exposure to pleasant pictures was intact across groups. In contrast, potentiat…
Handbook of Psychopathy
Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Lykken, Psychopathic Personality: The Scope of the Problem. Fowles, Dindo, A Dual-Deficit Model of Psychopathy. Blackburn, Other Theoretical Models of Psychopathy. Hare, Neumann, The PCL-R Assessment of Psychopathy: Development, Structural Properties, and New Directions. Part II: Issues in Conceptualization and Assessment. Cooke, Michie, Hart, Facets of Clinical Psychopathy: Toward Clearer Measuremen…
Linking dimensional models of internalizing psychopathology to neurobiological systems
Integrative hierarchical models have sought to account for the extensive comorbidity between various internalizing disorders in terms of broad individual difference factors these disorders share. However, such models have been developed largely on the basis of self-report and diagnostic symptom data. Toward the goal of linking such models to neurobiological systems, we reviewed studies that have employed variants of the affect-modulated startle p…
Psychopathic Personality
Few psychological concepts evoke simultaneously as much fascination and misunderstanding as psychopathic personality, or psychopathy. Typically, individuals with psychopathy are misconceived as fundamentally different from the rest of humanity and as inalterably dangerous. Popular portrayals of are diverse and conflicting, ranging from uncommonly impulsive and violent criminal offenders to corporate figures who callously and skillfully manuever t…
The role of fearless dominance in psychopathy
Based on their 2011 meta-analysis of the correlates of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI), Miller and Lynam (An examination of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory's nomological network: A meta-analytic review, Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 3, 305-326) conclude that its Fearless Dominance (PPI-FD) higher-order dimension exhibits weak construct validity, leading them to question the relevance of boldness to th…
Evidence for a heritable brain basis to deviance-promoting deficits in self-control
Understanding the role of conscientiousness in healthy aging
In reviewing this impressive series of articles, I was struck by 2 points in particular: (a) the fact that the empirically oriented articles focused on analyses of data from very large samples, with the articles by Friedman, Kern, Hampson, and Duckworth (2014) and Kern, Hampson, Goldbert, and Friedman (2014) highlighting an approach to merging existing data sets through use of "metric bridges" to address key questions not addressable through 1 da…
Triarchic Model of Psychopathy
The triarchic model ( P atrick, F owles, & K rueger, 2009) was formulated to reconcile contrasting conceptions of psychopathy reflected in historic writings and contemporary assessment instruments, and to address persisting unresolved issues in the field. The model conceives of psychopathy as encompassing three distinct but interrelated phenotypic dispositions—disinhibition, boldness, and meanness—with biological referents. These dispositional co…
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
Integrating criminological and mental health perspectives on low self-control
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners
The validity of self‐report psychopathy assessment has been questioned, especially in forensic settings where clinical evaluations influence critical decision‐making (e.g., institutional placement, parole eligibility). Informant‐based assessment offers a potentially valuable supplement to self‐report but is challenging to acquire in under‐resourced forensic contexts. The current study evaluated, within an incarcerated sample ( n = 322), the exten…
Triarchic Neurobehavioral Correlates of Psychopathology in Young Children
), which demonstrate compatibility with established temperament models and can be quantified using items from different existing inventories, are well-suited to pursuing these goals. We undertook to develop item-based scales for indexing these traits in 285 children (ages 5-10) tested in the Child Mind Institute's Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study, and evaluated their psychometric properties in two separate samples of similar-aged children: 519 o…
The startle reflex as an indicator of psychopathic personality from childhood to adulthood
Adverse perinatal events and offspring criminal convictions in men and women
We examined associations of adverse perinatal events with offspring violent and non-violent criminal convictions in men and women. All singleton births between 1973 and 1995 (n = 1,146,570 men, n = 1,085,217 women) were identified through Swedish population-based registers. Information about adverse perinatal events was retrieved from the Medical Birth Register. Outcomes were criminal convictions collected from the National Crime Register. We est…
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement
Development and Initial Validation of Two Brief Measures of Left-Wing Authoritarianism
Although authoritarianism has predominantly been studied among political conservatives, authoritarian individuals exist on both "poles" of the political spectrum. A 39-item multidimensional measure of left-wing authoritarianism, the Left-wing Authoritarianism Index, was recently developed to extend the study of authoritarianism to members of the far-left. The present study coupled a fully automated machine learning approach (i.e., a genetic algor…
Psychology (23 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Personality (11 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Injury prevention (8 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Antisocial personality disorder (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works)