Psychopathy has been theorized as a disorder of emotion, which impairs moral judgments. However, these theories are increasingly being abandoned as empirical studies show that psychopaths seem to make proper moral judgments. In this contribution, these findings are reassessed, and it is argued that prevalent emotion-theories of psychopathy appear to operate with the unjustified assumption that psychopaths have no emotions, which leads to the hypothesis that psychopaths are completely unable to make moral judgments. An alternative and novel explanation is proposed, theorizing psychopathy as a degree-specific emotional deficiency, which causes degree-specific differences in moral judgments.

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精神病患者是否有道德心理障碍？重新评估情绪理论的解释

精神病态被理论化为一种情绪障碍，会损害道德判断。然而，随着实证研究表明精神病患者似乎做出了正确的道德判断，这些理论越来越多地被抛弃。在这篇文章中，这些发现被重新评估，并且认为流行的精神病情绪理论似乎是在精神病患者没​​有情绪的不合理假设下运作的，这导致了精神病患者完全无法做出道德判断的假设。提出了另一种新颖的解释，将精神病理论化为特定程度的情感缺陷，导致道德判断的特定程度差异。