Trish Long presents at Annual Convention of Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
Trish Long, Ph.D., clinical professor and chair in the Department of Psychology, recently presented "Psychopathy, Personality, and Frequency of Rape Perpetration: A Moderated Relationship" at the Annual Convention of the Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies in Philadelphia.
Long鈥檚 study indicates that psychopathy moderates the relationship between several personality traits (including competence, depression and positive emotions) and the frequency of rape perpetration by college men.
For example, while men with low levels of psychopathy did not vary meaningfully in their number of rape perpetration occurrences based on their self-reported competence levels, men with high levels of psychopathy did. Men with high levels of psychopathy and low competence reported higher levels of rape perpetration occurrences than men with high levels of psychopathy and high self-perceived competence (levels more similar to men with low levels of psychopathy).