design to investigate the association between primary and secondary psychopathy and cognitive empathy. 452 first year psychology students completed Levenson, Kiehl and Fitzpatrick’s (1995) Levenson self-report Psychopathy scale (LSRP) and Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, Raste and Plumb’s (2001) Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET). A significant negative correlation was found between primary psychopathy and empathy while the correlation for secondary psychopathy and empathy was insignificant. From
the correlations between First and Secondary Psychopathy and Cognitive Empathy. We developed two hypotheses, (the first based off our intel from Chamorro-Premuzic, 2010) that Primary Psychopathy and Empathy will be negatively correlated whereas Secondary Psychopathy and Empathy will be positively correlated . Our subject pool consisted of 452 participants, 113 male and 339 female, where they completed a questionnaire of 2-parts; each part determinant of either Psychopathy or Empathy. The scores were
study was to determine whether primary and secondary psychopaths had deficiencies in empathy, and was conducted by applying Levenson’s SRPS and ToM test to a non-institutionalized group. Studies show that psychopathic individuals have no deficiency with empathy, and support the first hypothesis of a negative correlation between primary psychopathy and empathy. The study doesn’t support the second hypothesis of a negative correlation between secondary psychopathy and empathy, with no evidence to support