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Psychophysiological differentiation between psychopathic and schizophrenic abnormal offenders *
Author(s) -
Hinten John,
O'Neill Michael,
Hamilton Sheila,
Burke Myles
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1980.tb00352.x
Subject(s) - skin conductance , psychology , maximum security , psychophysiology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , prison , biomedical engineering , criminology
This paper is a follow‐up of research by Schalling (1978), Mednick (1975), Mednick & Hutchings (1978), Venables (1975) and a pilot study on the psychophysiological response characteristics of maximum security patients, Hinton & O'Neill (1976, 1978). In line with hypotheses, patients rated as ‘disoriented’ by nurses and diagnosed ‘schizophrenic’, tended to have increased spontaneous electrodermal fluctuations and reduced orienting response recovery time relative to non‐‘disoriented’ and diagnosed ‘psychopaths’. Also low rate spontaneous fluctuation in skin resistance plus long skin resistance ORt/2 differentiated ‘high public risk’ psychopaths from ‘low risk’ domestic offenders.