PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Olga Sánchez de Ribera
AU  - Nicholas Kavish
AU  - Ian M. Katz
AU  - Brian B. Boutwell
TI  - Untangling intelligence, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, & conduct problems: A meta-analytic review
AID  - 10.1101/100693
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 100693
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/03/28/100693.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/03/28/100693.full
AB  - Substantial research has investigated the association between intelligence and psychopathic traits. The findings to date have been inconsistent and have not always considered the multi-dimensional nature of psychopathic traits. Moreover, there has been a tendency to confuse psychopathy with other closely related, clinically significant disorders. The current study represents a meta-analysis conducted to evaluate the direction and magnitude of the association of intelligence with global psychopathy, as well as its factors and facets, and related disorders (Antisocial Personality Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder). Our analyses revealed a small, significant, negative relationship between intelligence and total psychopathy (r = -.07, p = .001). Analysis of factors and facets found differential associations, including both significant positive (e.g., interpersonal facet) and negative (e.g., affective facet) associations, further affirming that psychopathy is a multi-dimensional construct. Additionally, intelligence was negatively associated with Antisocial Personality Disorder (r = -.13, p = .001) and Conduct Disorder (r = -.11, p = .001), but positively with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (r = .06, p = .001). There was significant heterogeneity across studies for most effects, but the results of moderator analyses were inconsistent. Finally, bias analyses did not find significant evidence for publication bias or outsized effects of outliers.