Personality, Attitudes and Humor Preferences of Prisoners and Controls
| Autor: | Alastair MacLean, Glenn D. Wilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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Male media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Prison Humans Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology media_common Criminal Psychology Psychological Tests Prisoners 05 social sciences 050301 education Sexual stimuli Criminal behavior Neuroticism Attitude Scale (social sciences) Social attitudes Psychology 0503 education Wit and Humor as Topic Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Reports. 34:847-854 |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pr0.1974.34.3.847 |
| Popis: | A sample of 100 recidivists were compared with 100 trainee bus drivers on measures of personality, social attitudes and humor preferences. Results support Eysenck's findings that criminals tend to be more psychotic, extra-verted, and neurotic than controls, and that a “criminal propensity” scale derived from these three personality characteristics can give reasonable separation of prisoners from non-prisoners. Results from the attitude and humor tests indicated that the prisoners were less favorable toward sexual stimuli than controls, a finding that is particularly interesting because it is not paralleled by the differences between those scoring low and high on “criminal propensity” within the prisoner and control groups. These findings may reflect psychological characteristics of people who are prone to criminal behavior and/or the effects of the prison environment and subculture; the present data do not allow separate consideration of these questions. |
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