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Moral reasoning and conduct problems in children with emotional and behavioural difficulties

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Performance on the moral/conventional distinction measure did predict extent of behavioural disturbance and was interpreted within the Violence Inhibition Mechanism model of normal and atypical moral development.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2001-10-01. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Moral disengagement & Social cognitive theory of morality.

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Research Review: The importance of callous‐unemotional traits for developmental models of aggressive and antisocial behavior

TL;DR: Research suggesting that the presence of a callous and unemotional interpersonal style designates an important subgroup of antisocial and aggressive youth with particularly severe, aggressive, and stable pattern of antissocial behavior is reviewed.
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Can callous-unemotional traits enhance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of serious conduct problems in children and adolescents? A comprehensive review.

TL;DR: Although children and adolescents with both severe conduct problems and elevated CU traits tend to respond less positively to typical interventions provided in mental health and juvenile justice settings, they show positive responses to certain intensive interventions tailored to their unique emotional and cognitive characteristics.
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Deficient Fear Conditioning in Psychopathy A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

TL;DR: This dissociation of emotional and cognitive processing may be the neural basis of the lack of anticipation of aversive events in criminal psychopaths.
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The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain

TL;DR: The Psychopathic Individual: The Functional Impairment and a Neuro-Cognitive Account of Reactive Aggression are presented, which concludes that the functional impairment is the most likely cause of Psychopathy.
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Annual research review: A developmental psychopathology approach to understanding callous-unemotional traits in children and adolescents with serious conduct problems.

TL;DR: Research on the normal development of the prosocial emotions of empathy and guilt is summarized and it is illustrated how the development of CU traits can be viewed as thenormal development of conscience gone awry.
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Does the autistic child have a theory of mind

TL;DR: A new model of metarepresentational development is used to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism.

Does the Autistic Child Have a''Theory of Mind''? Cognition

TL;DR: In this paper, a new model of metarepresentational development was used to predict a cognitive deficit in children with autism, which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism.
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The Mask of Sanity

TL;DR: The seriousness of the masked disorder is often overlooked because peripheral functioning and outer appearance simulate so well all that is demanded by current definitions of sanity as discussed by the authors, and the traditional psychiatric criteria for diagnosis and classification are seldom helpful and often misleading in such instances.
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The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention

Elliot Turiel
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of concepts of social convention and coordination of domains is discussed. But the focus is on social experience and social knowledge, rather than on moral development, as in this paper.
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