This article aimed to verify the extent to which human values predict the antisocial behaviors and these, in turn, predict the criminal behavior. Participants were 207 undergraduated students, with ages ranging from 19 to 46 years (M = 22.6, SD = 3.65). The results indicated that values of the subfunction excitement (+) and normative (-) predicted the antisocial behaviors, and these, criminal behaviors. This te...
The present thesis aimed to explore the dark side of personality, verifying the fit of the measures that assess these traits, so as checking its relationships with diverse phenomena (e.g., emotional manipulation, impulsivity, values, infidelity, and tactics for mate attraction). For that, four articles were developed: one theoretical and three empirical. The first paper discusses the Dark Triad of personality, ...
This dissertation aimed at determining the extent to which personality traits, mediated by human values, predict psychopaths phenotypes. In this sense, three empirical studies were carried out. Study 1 aimed to adapt to the Brazilian context the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM). Participants were 498 undergraduate students of public and private universities from João Pessoa (Brazil), with a mean age of 22 ...