Moral judgment and conduct in psychopaths.

Abstract

Dear Sir: Link et al. in their study "Moral Judgment And Moral Conduct In the Psychopath"t managed to confirm something well known to clinicians. The authors appear perplexed by" ... the anomaly that psychopaths are capable of relatively mature moral judgment while also being capable of committing reprehensible offences." Coincidentally, in the same issue Barker and McLaughlin reporting on "The Total Encounter Capsule"tt and describing the same patient population studied by Link et al. state: