It has been suggested, by some authors, that measurements of maladaptive personality traits such as: superficial charm, egocentricity, guiltlessness, callousness, dishonesty, egocentricity, termed “psychopathy”, and more recently labeled “dark triads” (see Kowalski et al., 2021) (see Blonigen et al., 2006; Cleckley, 1951; DeLisi, 2016; Lilienfeld, 1998; Lynam and Miller, 2015) may be more important and less biased than using the presence of criminal behaviors in defining antisocial syndromes. It has been further suggested that one of the early key signs of a psychopathy that may underlie antisocial behaviors is a lack of conscience and feelings for others termed callous-unemotional (CU) traits (see Frick et al., 2014; Waller and Hyde, 2018). While the analyses presented here did not measure the construct of CU directly, participants were queried as to whether they felt guilt and/or remorse for their behaviors. There were no differences found on this measure based on sex or race. However, those participants with AASB were less likely to endorse feelings of guilt and remorse than those with ASPD although the level of significance was not (OR=1.53) as as discriminatory for that item as the presence of early antisocial behaviors such as bullying (OR=7.56) or cruelty to animals (OR=6.38).
