there are many literatures that used one or more personality traits to predict counter-productive behavior, on the other hand, I found some arguments about how neuropsychology is better in predicting cheating.
Read: Malignant self love by Sam Vaknin
it will answers your questions. To sum up: total lack of empathy. Nota bene
there are two types of empathy!
Different personality traits are associated with different neuropsychological configurations. For example, the personality traits that shape psychopathy, and therefore are good predictors of cheating behavior, are associated with specific patterns of neurocognitive and affective functioning (see Dolan & Park, 2002), which can be assessed by neuropsychological tests and tasks.
Galvanic skin response (GSR) was once associated with lies
Thanks a lot professor Barbosa. What is the name of the journal of Dolan & Park, 2002?
Sam Vaknins book refers to psychopathy (one of four). Psychopathy refers to the mirror neuron system. Here is a paper:
Psychiatry Research 160 (2008) 137–144
Psychopathy and the mirror neuron system: Preliminary findings from a non-psychiatric sample
Shirley Fecteau, Alvaro Pascual-Leone , Hugo Théoret
The complete reference is: Dolan, M. & Park, I. (2002). The neuropsychology of antisocial personality disorder. Psychological Medicine 32(3), 417-427. DOI: 10.1017/S0033291702005378
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