I said psychopathy, not psychosis. Read it again.
Edit: I'll spell it out using less of a review of previous material...
I'm studying psychopathy, which is associated with instrumental aggression (unlike any other psychopathological condition that I am aware of). The 'game', as described above, is designed to provoke instrumental aggression (hurting another as a means to an end). The hypothesis thus far is that participants scoring high on the PPI (the typical measure of psychopathy in community samples) will show different (increased) patterns of instrumental aggression than the control participants.
"When science was in its infancy, religion tried to strangle it in its cradle." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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