Hancock et al.'s Study on the Language of Psychopaths

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What was the research method?
Self-Report
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How many psychopaths and non-psychopaths were used?
14 and 38
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What was the sampling method?
Self-Selected
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How were psychopathic criminals differentiated from non-psychopathic ones?
They scored 25+ on the PCL-R
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What type of data was collected
Both
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What is the order of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs starting from the base?
Basic Physiological needs, Safety and comfort, Belonging and love, Esteem, Self-actualisation
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How were the types of words analysed?
Wmatrix
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How was the affectiveness of language measured?
DAL
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How many subordinate conjunctions did each group use? P NP
1.82% 1.54%
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How many more disfluencies did psychopaths have compared to non-psychopaths?
33%
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It was concluded that psychopaths viewed their crime as more in the past because?
They used more past tense verbs
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Where did prisoners come from?
Canadian Correctional Facilities
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What was the aim of the study
To see whether psychopaths talk about their crime in a different way to non-psychopaths
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Who found that Canadian psychopaths were 2.5 times more likely to re-offend than non-psychopaths?
Oxman et al. (1988)
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