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Abstract thinking in criminal psychopaths Gillstrom, Brenda Jean

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This thesis tests the hypothesis that psychopaths have problems with abstract thinking. 45 male inmates, who were divided into psychopaths and nonpsychopaths based on their score on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (Hare, 1991), completed a battery of abstraction tasks. Psychopaths did significantly poorer than did nonpsychopaths on one of the abstraction measures, the Proverbs Test (Gorham, 1956). The results are discussed in relation to thought disorder, symbolic thinking, the "abstract attitude", schizophrenia, and frontal lobe dysfunction.

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Title
Abstract thinking in criminal psychopaths
Creator
Gillstrom, Brenda Jean
Publisher
University of British Columbia
Date Issued
1995
Description
This thesis tests the hypothesis that psychopaths have problems with abstract thinking. 45 male inmates, who were divided into psychopaths and nonpsychopaths based on their score on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (Hare, 1991), completed a battery of abstraction tasks. Psychopaths did significantly poorer than did nonpsychopaths on one of the abstraction measures, the Proverbs Test (Gorham, 1956). The results are discussed in relation to thought disorder, symbolic thinking, the "abstract attitude", schizophrenia, and frontal lobe dysfunction.
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Genre
Thesis/Dissertation
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-04-17
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
DOI
10.14288/1.0088245
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7360
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Program
Psychology
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Psychology, Department of
Degree Grantor
University of British Columbia
Graduation Date
1995-11
Campus
UBCV
Scholarly Level
Graduate
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