Department of Psychology, Yale University.
Department of Psychology, Emory University.
Personal Disord. 2018 Jan;9(1):40-50. doi: 10.1037/per0000226. Epub 2016 Oct 31.
Psychopathic individuals are often characterized as lacking a moral sense. Although this hypothesis has received ample experimental attention over the past decade, findings have been inconsistent. To elucidate the relationship between psychopathy and abnormal moral judgment, we conducted a meta-analysis of the research on psychopathy and morality-related variables (k = 23, N = 4376). A random effects model indicated a small but statistically significant relation between psychopathy and moral decision-making (rw = .16) and moral reasoning (r = .10) tasks. These results reveal at best modest support for the common perception that psychopathic individuals fail to understand moral principles. A secondary meta-analysis (k = 9, N = 4294) of the growing body of literature on the relationship between psychopathy and moral reasoning on moral foundations measures provides preliminary evidence that psychopathic individuals may possess a differential set of "moral taste buds" than less psychopathic individuals. We discuss the implications of the results from both meta-analyses for models of the etiology of psychopathy and the criminal responsibility of psychopathic individuals. (PsycINFO Database Record
心理变态者通常被认为缺乏道德感。尽管在过去十年中，这一假设得到了充分的实验关注，但研究结果并不一致。为了阐明心理变态与异常道德判断之间的关系，我们对心理变态与道德相关变量的研究进行了荟萃分析（k=23，N=4376）。随机效应模型表明，心理变态与道德决策（rw=.16）和道德推理（r=.10）任务之间存在着微弱但具有统计学意义的关系。这些结果表明，心理变态者无法理解道德原则的普遍看法最多只是适度的支持。对心理变态与道德推理关系的日益增多的文献进行的二次荟萃分析（k=9，N=4294）表明，心理变态者可能具有不同于非心理变态者的“道德味觉”，这为道德基础测量的道德推理提供了初步证据。我们讨论了这两个荟萃分析结果对心理变态的病因学模型和心理变态者的刑事责任的影响。（心理学信息数据库记录
