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Personality theorists have used a dimensional approach based on behavioral variations in large scale populations in order to describe and explain antisocial behaviors. The model proposed by Cloninger in 1986 is based on the interaction between three genetically controlled inheritable personality traits. In Cloninger’s view, antisocial individuals would be those with a low level of harm avoidance and reward dependence associated with a high level of novelty seeking. Behaviors would be the result of an interaction between specific biogenetic predispositions and environmental influences.
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Arseneault, L., Boulerice, B., Tremblay, R.E., Saucier, JF. (1997). A Biosocial Exploration of the Personality Dimensions that Predispose to Criminality. In: Raine, A., Brennan, P.A., Farrington, D.P., Mednick, S.A. (eds) Biosocial Bases of Violence. Nato ASI Series, vol 292. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4648-8_21
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