caa a22 4500 606238824 CHVBK 20210128101300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10862-015-9479-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10862-015-9479-9 Empathy Faking in Psychopathic Offenders: The Vulnerability of Empathy Measures [Elektronische Daten] [Emily Robinson, Richard Rogers] The incapacity of individuals to experience empathy has long been linked to heightened risks of antisocial acts being perpetrated without remorse. Psychologists frequently consider deficits in empathy in the context of risk assessments and other clinical appraisals, such as the amenability to treatment. When evaluated, offenders—especially those with substantial psychopathic traits—may be motivated to mask their empathic deficits to avoid being characterized as callous and cold-blooded toward the victims of their crimes. The current study is the first known investigation with an offender population to simulate empathy via positive impression management (PIM). Using a mixed between- and within-subjects design, 81 male detainees were categorized into a Low, Moderate, or High Psychopathy group, based on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). For the within-subjects component, all offenders answered empathy questionnaires under genuine and PIM conditions. In the genuine condition, results indicate that offenders—irrespective of psychopathy—possessed cognitive empathy, but not affective empathy. In the PIM condition, offenders easily simulated high levels of empathy. Potential approaches to the assessment of simulated empathy in offender populations are explored, including a possible indicator for simulated affective empathy. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Empathy nationallicence Psychopathy nationallicence Positive impression management nationallicence Simulation nationallicence Offenders nationallicence Robinson Emily Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311280, 76203-5017, Denton, TX, USA aut Rogers Richard Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311280, 76203-5017, Denton, TX, USA aut Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2015-12-01), 545-552 0882-2689 37:4<545 2015 37 10862 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9479-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9479-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Robinson Emily Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311280, 76203-5017, Denton, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rogers Richard Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311280, 76203-5017, Denton, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2015-12-01), 545-552 0882-2689 37:4<545 2015 37 10862