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Item Construct Validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality - Self-Report Form(2021-07-14) Kavish, Nicholas; Anderson, JaimePsychopathy refers to a constellation of personality traits with significant public health implications. Yet, there remains ongoing debate regarding the optimal measurement of psychopathic traits—what traits to include, whether traits such as antisocial behavior are a symptom or a correlate, and how to best organize our models of psychopathic traits. Seeking to address some of these issues, the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) is a concept map that was developed using a “bottom-up” approach incorporating extensive literature review and consultation with subject matter experts. The concept map consists of 33 symptoms thematically organized into six domains—Attachment, Behavior, Cognitive, Dominance, Emotion, and Self. Recently, the CAPP – Self Report form (CAPP-SR) was developed as a 99 item self-report operationalization of the CAPP concept map, with 3 items per CAPP symptom, but its psychometric properties have not been extensively or independently investigated. The current study evaluated the internal consistency, factorial structure, and construct validity of the CAPP-SR in a large, mixed sample of undergraduate students (n = 700) and Amazon Mechanical Turk workers (n = 238). No organizational structure was superior according to all metrics, but a theoretically supported three factor solution representing behavioral, affective, and interpersonal traits appeared to be the optimal solution. The CAPP-SR demonstrated significant overlap with other pre-existing psychopathy measures and the three-factor solution evinced relatively good convergent and discriminant associations with external criterion. Overall, the CAPP-SR seems to measure a similar construct to, and is best organized in a similar manner to, prior psychopathy measures and it remains unclear whether the new measure captures meaningful information neglected by other models or outperforms them in prediction of important outcomes.Item Life History Speed as a Predictor of Rape and Sexually Coercive Behavior(2017-12-05) Kavish, Nicholas; Anderson, JaimeThe current study seeks to further understand risk factors for sexually coercive behavior by evaluating how indicators of population level average Life History speed (e.g., teen birth rate, life expectancy) compare to typical criminogenic variables (e.g., Socioeconomic status, average IQ) as predictors of state variation in rape rates across the 50 United States, as well as the relationship between individuals’ Life History (LH) speeds and self-reported proclivity for, and perpetration of, sexually coercive behaviors. LH Theory is a biological theory that argues organisms’ optimal resource allocation strategies are based on their environments. LH strategies are described as a continuum of “LH speeds,” and variation in LH speed has been connected to variation in aggressive and violent behavior. The current project extends this research by testing population level variation in LH speed indicators and individual variation in psychometric LH speed as a predictor of variation in sexually coercive behavior.