Victoria Branchadell

ORCID: 0000-0001-7751-0904
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Research Areas
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Universitat Jaume I
2019-2025

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2025

Abstract Psychopathy is a multifaceted personality disorder characterized by distinct affective/interpersonal traits, including callousness–unemotionality/meanness, which are often considered the hallmarks of empathic deficits. It has been posited that processing others’ pain could play an important role in empathy capabilities. This study aimed to investigate influence perspective taking on electrocortical responses during relation psychopathic callousness. The late positive potential (LPP)...

10.1093/scan/nsae022 article EN cc-by Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2024-01-01

The boldness disposition of the triarchic model psychopathy is theorized to entail, aside from mal-adaptive proclivities (narcissism, fearless risk-taking), some adaptive features (e.g., immunity stressful events, high self-esteem, and emotional resilience) that seem predispose individuals an effective regulation in response environmental demands. frequency band heart rate variability -an index parasympathetic cardiac vagal activity-is a well-validated physiological self-regulation mental...

10.1037/per0000573 article EN Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment 2022-05-05

This study aimed to extend previously reported links between distinctive configurations of traits in the psychopathic personality and maladaptive response perseveration, by examining performance Card Perseveration Task (CPT) within framework triarchic model psychopathy a mixed-gender undergraduate sample. A computerized version CPT was administered 222 undergraduates (142 women) assessed for dimensions using Triarchic Psychopathy Measure. Maladaptive perseveration (more cards played less...

10.1037/per0000371 article EN Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment 2019-10-17

Abstract One of the most prominent characteristics psychopathy is a reduced processing emotionally relevant information. However, it still unclear how attentional mechanisms may modulate this deficit. The current study aimed to examine impact focus on emotion in relation triarchic constructs boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. Participants performed two tasks which pleasant, neutral, unpleasant framed pictures were presented. In first task, participants required indicate color frame...

10.1111/psyp.14222 article EN Psychophysiology 2022-11-23

Addiction-related attentional biases may play a central role in the development and maintenance of drug-seeking drug-taking behaviors. However, evidence cocaine dependence is limited mixed. This study examined time course component processes for cocaine-related cues sample 47 outpatients (38 men) with use disorder (CUD) varying durations current abstinence. Reaction times visual dot-probe task two picture exposure —500 ms, to assess initial stages attention, 2,000 maintained attention— were...

10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1290890 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Psychology 2024-01-31

Affective/interpersonal features of psychopathy have been consistently associated with diverse psychophysiological indicators low threat sensitivity, suggesting an underlying deficit in the reactivity brain's defensive motivational system. This study examined Cardiac Defense Response (CDR) -a complex pattern heart rate changes response to aversive, intense, and unexpected stimulus- its second accelerative component (A2), as a new physiological indicator fearlessness trait psychopathy. The...

10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108617 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Biological Psychology 2023-06-15
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