title: Necker cube reversals, arousal and psychopathy.
abstract: Necker cube reversals were studied in a group of 24 arrested men in three experimental sessions; two weeks, one week and immediately before trial. The first session was assumed to represent a moderate laboratory stress due to the novelty of the situation, and the last session a real-life stress associated with anticipation of appearing in court. Both were superimposed on the sustained real-life stress of being in jail. There were no stress-related changes between the three sessions in the rate of apparent change (RAC) of the Necker cube. The intra-individual stability of RAC was extremely high. There were significant positive correlations between RAC in all sessions, and a psychopathy-related inventory scale, the Gough delinquency scale.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000652:urine; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000652:urine; D010556:Personality Tests; D012193:Reversal Learning / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine