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Antisocial Personality

PERSONALITY: Antisocial Personality Disorder

This overview describes antisocial personality disorder in terms of persistent disregard for social norms and others’ rights, impulsivity, irresponsibility, and difficulties in relationships. It also reproduces a DSM-5 passage explaining how clinicians distinguish the diagnosis from antisocial behavior associated with substance use, including the relevance of a childhood history.

PERSONALITY: Antisocial Personality and Violence

This collection surveys research on antisocial personality features and violence, including intimate-partner violence and severe offending. The cited studies examine how comorbidity, psychopathy, trauma, biological markers, and personality traits relate to different forms of aggression, and report that associations vary across samples and outcomes.