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Abstract：
Social decisions are influenced by a person\'s social preferences. High psychopathy is defined by antisocial behaviour, but the relationship between psychopathy and social preferences remains unclear. In this study, we used a battery of economic games to study social decision-making and social preferences in relation to psychopathy in a sample of 35 male prison inmates, who were arrested for sexual and severe violent offenses (mean age = 39 years). We found no evidence for a relationship between social preferences (measured with the Dictator and Ultimatum Games, Social Value Orientation, and one-shot 2 × 2 games) and psychopathy (measured by the overall Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised score and both factors). These results are surprising but also difficult to interpret due to the small sample size. Our results contribute to the ongoing debate about psychopathy and social decision-making by providing crucial data that can be combined with future datasets to reach large sample sizes that can provide a more nuanced understanding about the relationship between psychopathy and social preferences.
摘要：
社会决策受一个人的社会偏好的影响。高度精神病是由反社会行为定义的，但是精神病和社会偏好之间的关系仍不清楚。在这项研究中,我们使用一系列经济游戏来研究35名男性监狱囚犯样本中与精神病相关的社会决策和社会偏好，因性暴力和严重暴力犯罪而被捕的人(平均年龄=39岁)。我们没有发现社会偏好之间存在关系的证据(用独裁者和最后通牒游戏来衡量，社会价值取向,和一次性2×2游戏）和精神病（通过总体野兔精神病检查表修订得分和两个因素来衡量）。这些结果令人惊讶，但由于样本量小，也难以解释。我们的结果通过提供关键数据，可以与未来的数据集结合起来，以达到大样本量，可以提供对精神病和社会偏好之间关系的更细致的理解，从而为正在进行的关于精神病和社会决策的辩论做出贡献。
