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Justification Of Antisocial Behavior, Wiliam Robert Walton
Justification Of Antisocial Behavior, Wiliam Robert Walton
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The purpose of this study was to further the study of conditional reasoning (CR) methodology to study personality. The direction of the expansion was two fold. First was to increase the content area of the study of aggressive personality by developing justification mechanisms (JMs) for antisocial behaviors. Second, was to determine the feasibility of using different reasoning-based tasks to measure JMs. Thus the development of a CR based reading comprehension task to measure antisocial JMs was undertaken. This study represents the preliminary investigation of the viability of this measure.
The Conditional Reasoning Reading Comprehension test (CR2C) was administered to 833 …