The centrality of a fearless temperament as it relates to the construct of psychopathy remains an area of controversy, with some researchers arguing that the relationship between fearless temperament and psychopathy (and associated antisocial behavior) can be explained by shared associations with other core affective and interpersonal traits of psychopathy such as callous-unemotional (CU) traits. The authors investigated real-world subjectively experienced fear in 306 individuals with varying levels of CU traits and antisocial behavior and found that at low levels of subjective fear experience, decreases in subjective fear were associated with greater antisociality. Even after controlling for the positive relationship between CU traits and antisocial behavior, reduced subjectively experienced fear remained a significant predictor of antisocial behavior. These results provide evidence that experienced fear is related to antisocial behavior at lower than average levels of subjectively experienced fear and that this relationship persists after controlling for CU traits.

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适应不良的无畏：主观恐惧体验与与冷酷无情特质相关的反社会行为之间的关联的检验。

无畏气质与精神病的构成有关的中心性仍然是一个有争议的领域，一些研究人员认为无畏气质与精神病（以及相关的反社会行为）之间的关系可以通过与其他核心情感和人际关系的共同关联来解释精神病的特征，例如冷酷无情（CU）特征。作者调查了 306 名具有不同程度 CU 特征和反社会行为的个体在现实世界中主观经历的恐惧，发现在主观恐惧体验水平较低的情况下，主观恐惧的减少与更大的反社会性相关。即使在控制了 CU 特质与反社会行为之间的正相关关系之后，减少主观体验的恐惧仍然是反社会行为的重要预测因素。这些结果提供的证据表明，经历的恐惧与低于主观经历恐惧的平均水平的反社会行为有关，并且这种关系在控制了 CU 特征后仍然存在。