title: WAIS differences between murderers and attackers referred for evaluation.
abstract: 12 first and second degree murderers were matched on sex and age with subjects who had perpetrated aggressive interpersonal attacks short of homicide. Both groups had been referred for psychological testing by courts and social agencies. A substantial and significant difference in IQ was found in favor of the attackers over the murderers. Results were interpreted as lending credence to the hypothesis that differences in IQ exist among important sub-populations of murderers.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D009820:Ohio; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014888:Wechsler Scales