Personality, Attitudes and Humor Preferences of Prisoners and Controls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13656366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn D Wilson (Institute of Psychiatry, London, corresponding author), Alastair MacLean (Institute of Psychiatry, London) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 847-854 |
| Publication date | 1974-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1974.34.3.847 |
| PMID | 4846918 |
| OpenAlex | W1979627778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
A sample of 100 recidivists were compared with 100 trainee bus drivers on measures of personality, social attitudes and humor preferences. Results support Eysenck's findings that criminals tend to be more psychotic, extra-verted, and neurotic than controls, and that a “criminal propensity” scale derived from these three personality characteristics can give reasonable separation of prisoners from non-prisoners. Results from the attitude and humor tests indicated that the prisoners were less favorable toward sexual stimuli than controls, a finding that is particularly interesting because it is not paralleled by the differences between those scoring low and high on “criminal propensity” within the prisoner and control groups. These findings may reflect psychological characteristics of people who are prone to criminal behavior and/or the effects of the prison environment and subculture; the present data do not allow separate consideration of these questions
Big Five personality traits · Criminal behavior · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Extraversion and introversion · Eysenck Personality Questionnaire · Neuroticism · Personality · Prison · Subculture (biology · Clinical Psychology · Humor Studies and Applications · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 1990 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |