“…Antisocial behavior is an integral aspect of the psychopathy construct as measured by the PCL-R, and, accordingly, the majority of previous studies of psychopathy and electrodermal activity have been conducted with incarcerated or otherwise antisocial individuals (e.g., Arnett, Howland, Smith, & Newman, 1993;Hare, 1982;House & Milligan, 1976;Lykken, 1957). Some studies report findings of electrodermal hyporesponsivity among antisocial individuals in general (Buikhuisen, Bontekoe, Plas-Korenhoff, & Buuren, 1985;Raine & Venables, 1984;Raine, Venables, & Williams, 1990;Schmidt et al, 1985), and thus it is not entirely surprising that differences in skin conductance nonresponding did not emerge when antisocial nonpsychopathic boys were compared with antisocial psychopathy-prone boys in the present study. Unlike factors such as SES or intelligence, antisocial behavior is fundamentally embedded in the psychopathy construct as it is currently measured and thus cannot be considered a confound in the usual sense of the term.…”