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Ashley L. Watts
Researcher at University of Missouri
Publications - 83
Citations - 2211
Ashley L. Watts is an academic researcher from University of Missouri. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychopathy & Personality. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 63 publications receiving 1558 citations. Previous affiliations of Ashley L. Watts include University of Georgia & Emory University.
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Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership.
Scott O. Lilienfeld,Irwin D. Waldman,Kristin Landfield,Ashley L. Watts,Steven Rubenzer,Thomas R. Faschingbauer +5 more
TL;DR: Fearless Dominance, which reflects the boldness associated with psychopathy, was associated with better rated presidential performance, leadership, persuasiveness, crisis management, Congressional relations, and allied variables; it was also associated with several largely or entirely objective indicators of presidential performance.
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Psychopathy Deconstructed and Reconstructed: Identifying and Assembling the Personality Building Blocks of Cleckley's Chimera.
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the correlations between the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and normal-range personality traits is used as a launching point to deconstruct widely used measures of psychopathy into their constituent subdimensions and examine the associations of these subdimension with higher-order and lower-order personality dimensions drawn from the Big Five and Big Three frameworks.
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An examination of the Dirty Dozen measure of psychopathy: a cautionary tale about the costs of brief measures.
Joshua D. Miller,Lauren R. Few,L. Alana Seibert,Ashley L. Watts,Amos Zeichner,Donald R. Lynam +5 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrated that there is important variance related to interpersonal antagonism and disinhibition that is not assessed by the Dirty Dozen, and the authors suggest that caution should be used in relying on the DD as a measure of psychopathy.
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Successful Psychopathy A Scientific Status Report
TL;DR: A status report on successful psychopathy research can be found in this article, where the authors examine evidence for competing models of successful psychopathic traits and offer desiderata for future research.
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The Double-Edged Sword of Grandiose Narcissism Implications for Successful and Unsuccessful Leadership Among U.S. Presidents
Ashley L. Watts,Scott O. Lilienfeld,Sarah Francis Smith,Joshua D. Miller,W. Keith Campbell,Irwin D. Waldman,Steven Rubenzer,Thomas J. Faschingbauer +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that presidents exhibit elevated levels of grandiose narcissism compared with the general population, and that presidents’ grandiosed narcissism has been rising over time, suggesting that grandiOSE narcissism may be a double-edged sword in the leadership domain.