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Michael J. Vitacco, Ph.D., ABPP - Publications

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Psychiatry and Health Behavior Augusta University 
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2020 Hare RD, Olver ME, Stockdale KC, Neumann CS, Mokros A, Baskin-Sommers A, Brand E, Folino J, Gacono C, Gray NS, Kiehl K, Knight R, Leon-Mayer E, Logan M, Meloy JR, ... ... Vitacco M, et al. The PCL–R and capital sentencing: A commentary on “Death is different” DeMatteo et al. (2020a). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 26: 519-522. DOI: 10.1037/law0000290  0.477
2020 Olver ME, Stockdale KC, Neumann CS, Hare RD, Mokros A, Baskin-Sommers A, Brand E, Folino J, Gacono C, Gray NS, Kiehl K, Knight R, Leon-Mayer E, Logan M, Meloy JR, ... ... Vitacco M, et al. Reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in the assessment of risk for institutional violence: A cautionary note on DeMatteo et al. (2020). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 26: 490-510. DOI: 10.1037/law0000256  0.522
2019 Britt JY, Patton CL, Remaker DN, Prell L, Vitacco MJ. Predicting violence risk and recidivism in female parolees: A state-wide sample. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 66: 101471. PMID 31706405 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijlp.2019.101471  0.32
2019 Patton CL, Johnston EL, Lillard CM, Vitacco MJ. Legal and Clinical Issues Regarding the Pro Se Defendant: Guidance for Practitioners and Policy Makers Psychology, Public Policy and Law. 25: 196-211. DOI: 10.1037/Law0000197  0.324
2019 Gay JG, Lishner DA, Vitacco MJ, Beussink C. Deconstructing the association between psychopathy and political orientation: Is it attributable to moral intuitions or moral competency? Personality and Individual Differences. 149: 128-134. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2019.05.054  0.321
2019 Vitacco MJ, Gottfried E, Lilienfeld SO, Batastini A. The Limited Relevance of Neuroimaging in Insanity Evaluations Neuroethics. 13: 249-260. DOI: 10.1007/S12152-019-09421-8  0.31
2018 Cox J, Fairfax-Columbo J, DeMatteo D, Vitacco MJ, Kopkin MR, Parrott CT, Bownes E. An update and expansion on the role of the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide and Historical Clinical Risk Management-20 in United States case law. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. PMID 30277618 DOI: 10.1002/Bsl.2376  0.329
2018 Vitacco MJ, Balduzzi E, Rideout K, Banfe S, Britton J. Reconsidering risk assessment with insanity acquittees. Law and Human Behavior. PMID 30113190 DOI: 10.1037/Lhb0000298  0.304
2018 Hampton SL, Vitacco MJ, Kosson DS. Construct Validity of the Three-Factor Model of the Interpersonal Measure of Psychopathy Criminal Justice and Behavior. 45: 1613-1633. DOI: 10.1177/0093854818786759  0.326
2017 Vitacco MJ, Ragatz LL. Mental health symptoms predict competency to stand trial and competency restoration success Legal and Criminological Psychology. 22: 288-301. DOI: 10.1111/Lcrp.12100  0.323
2017 Gottfried ED, Vitacco MJ, Steadham JA. The Relationship between Feigned Psychiatric Symptoms and Feigned Lack of Legal Knowledge among a Multi-Site Sample of Forensic Inpatients International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. 16: 197-206. DOI: 10.1080/14999013.2017.1288667  0.322
2017 Beussink CN, Hackney AA, Vitacco MJ. The effects of perspective taking on empathy-related responses for college students higher in callous traits Personality and Individual Differences. 119: 86-91. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2017.07.005  0.597
2017 Steinert SW, Lishner DA, Vitacco MJ, Hong PY. Conceptualizing successful psychopathy: An elaboration of the moderated-expression model Aggression and Violent Behavior. 36: 44-51. DOI: 10.1016/J.Avb.2017.07.005  0.685
2016 Prell L, Vitacco MJ, Zavodny D. Predicting violence and recidivism in a large sample of males on probation or parole. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 49: 107-113. PMID 27686952 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijlp.2016.08.003  0.32
2016 Watts AL, Salekin RT, Harrison N, Clark A, Waldman ID, Vitacco MJ, Lilienfeld SO. Psychopathy: Relations With Three Conceptions of Intelligence. Personality Disorders. PMID 27064713 DOI: 10.1037/Per0000183  0.624
2016 Tabernik HE, Vitacco MJ. Psychosis and Substance Use: Implications for Conditional Release Readiness Evaluations. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. PMID 27021306 DOI: 10.1002/Bsl.2229  0.31
2016 Vitacco MJ, Tabernik HE, Zavodny D, Bailey K, Waggoner C. Projecting Risk: The Importance of the HCR-20 Risk Management Scale in Predicting Outcomes with Forensic Patients. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. PMID 27009396 DOI: 10.1002/Bsl.2221  0.3
2016 Gottfried ED, Schenk AM, Vitacco MJ. Retrospectively Assessing for Feigning in Criminal Responsibility Evaluations: Recommendations for Clinical Practice Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice. 16: 118-128. DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2016.1154713  0.303
2015 Gottfried ED, Hudson BL, Vitacco MJ, Carbonell JL. Improving the Detection of Feigned Knowledge Deficits in Defendants Adjudicated Incompetent to Stand Trial. Assessment. PMID 26423350 DOI: 10.1177/1073191115605631  0.331
2015 Gay JG, Ragatz L, Vitacco M. Mental Health Symptoms and their Relationship to Specific Deficits in Competency to Proceed to Trial Evaluations Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 22: 780-791. DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2015.1013009  0.318
2015 Lishner DA, Hong PY, Jiang L, Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS. Psychopathy, narcissism, and borderline personality: A critical test of the affective empathy-impairment hypothesis Personality and Individual Differences. 86: 257-265. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2015.05.036  0.352
2014 Ragatz L, Vitacco MJ, Tross R. Competency to Proceed to Trial Evaluations and Rational Understanding. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. PMID 25080435 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X14543768  0.301
2014 Gostisha AJ, Vitacco MJ, Dismukes AR, Brieman C, Merz J, Shirtcliff EA. Beyond physiological hypoarousal: the role of life stress and callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated adolescent males. Hormones and Behavior. 65: 469-79. PMID 24726789 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2014.03.016  0.309
2014 Johnson MM, Dismukes AR, Vitacco MJ, Breiman C, Fleury D, Shirtcliff EA. Psychopathy's influence on the coupling between hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and -gonadal axes among incarcerated adolescents. Developmental Psychobiology. 56: 448-58. PMID 23852424 DOI: 10.1002/Dev.21111  0.309
2014 Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Pardini DA. Predicting Future Criminal Offending in a Community-Based Sample of Males Using Self-Reported Psychopathy Criminal Justice and Behavior. 41: 345-363. DOI: 10.1177/0093854813500488  0.312
2013 Vitacco MJ, Erickson SK, Lishner DA. Comment: Holding psychopaths morally and criminally culpable Emotion Review. 5: 423-425. DOI: 10.1177/1754073913490043  0.351
2012 Lishner DA, Vitacco MJ, Hong PY, Mosley J, Miska K, Stocks EL. Evaluating the relation between psychopathy and affective empathy: two preliminary studies. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 56: 1161-81. PMID 22094599 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X11421891  0.37
2012 Vitacco MJ, Gonsalves V, Tomony J, Smith BER, Lishner DA. Can standardized measures of risk predict inpatient violence?: Combining static and dynamic variables to improve accuracy Criminal Justice and Behavior. 39: 589-606. DOI: 10.1177/0093854812436786  0.315
2012 Erickson SK, Vitacco MJ. Predators and punishment. Psychology, Public Policy and Law. 18: 1-17. DOI: 10.1037/A0024607  0.336
2011 Lishner DA, Swim ER, Hong PY, Vitacco MJ. Psychopathy and ability emotional intelligence: Widespread or limited association among facets? Personality and Individual Differences. 50: 1029-1033. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2011.01.018  0.34
2010 Vitacco MJ, Kosson DS. Understanding psychopathy through an evaluation of interpersonal behavior: testing the factor structure of the interpersonal measure of psychopathy in a large sample of jail detainees. Psychological Assessment. 22: 638-49. PMID 20822276 DOI: 10.1037/A0019780  0.34
2010 Saleh FM, Malin HM, Grudzinskas AJ, Vitacco MJ. Paraphilias with co-morbid psychopathy: the clinical and legal significance to sex offender assessments. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 28: 211-23. PMID 20422646 DOI: 10.1002/Bsl.933  0.302
2010 Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Caldwell MF. Predicting Antisocial Behavior in High-Risk Male Adolescents Criminal Justice and Behavior. 37: 833-846. DOI: 10.1177/0093854810371358  0.355
2009 Vitacco MJ, Caldwell M, Ryba NL, Malesky A, Kurus SJ. Assessing risk in adolescent sexual offenders: recommendations for clinical practice. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 27: 929-40. PMID 19937921 DOI: 10.1002/Bsl.909  0.308
2009 Shirtcliff EA, Vitacco MJ, Graf AR, Gostisha AJ, Merz JL, Zahn-Waxler C. Neurobiology of empathy and callousness: implications for the development of antisocial behavior. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 27: 137-71. PMID 19319834 DOI: 10.1002/Bsl.862  0.337
2009 Vitacco MJ, Van Rybroek GJ, Rogstad JE, Yahr LE, Tomony JD, Saewert E. Predicting short-term institutional aggression in forensic patients: a multi-trait method for understanding subtypes of aggression. Law and Human Behavior. 33: 308-19. PMID 18958610 DOI: 10.1007/S10979-008-9155-7  0.356
2009 Vitacco MJ, Malesky LA, Erickson S, Leslie W, Croysdale A, Bloechl A. Measuring Attitudes toward the Insanity Defense in Venirepersons: Refining the IDA-R in the Evaluation of Juror Bias 1 International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. 8: 62-70. DOI: 10.1080/14999010903014754  0.331
2008 Caldwell MF, Ziemke MH, Vitacco MJ. An examination of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act as applied to juveniles: Evaluating the ability to predict sexual recidivism. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 14: 89-114. DOI: 10.1037/A0013241  0.306
2007 Jackson RL, Neumann CS, Vitacco MJ. Impulsivity, anger, and psychopathy: the moderating effect of ethnicity. Journal of Personality Disorders. 21: 289-304. PMID 17536941 DOI: 10.1521/Pedi.2007.21.3.289  0.329
2007 Vitacco MJ, Caldwell MF, Van Rybroek GJ, Gabel J. Psychopathy and behavioral correlates of victim injury in serious juvenile offenders. Aggressive Behavior. 33: 537-44. PMID 17486592 DOI: 10.1002/Ab.20211  0.334
2007 Bloechl AL, Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Erickson SE. An empirical investigation of insanity defense attitudes: exploring factors related to bias. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 30: 153-61. PMID 17166589 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijlp.2006.03.007  0.325
2007 Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Wodushek T. Differential Relationships Between the Dimensions of Psychopathy and Intelligence Criminal Justice and Behavior. 35: 48-55. DOI: 10.1177/0093854807309806  0.364
2006 Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Caldwell MF, Leistico AM, Van Rybroek GJ. Testing factor models of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version and their association with instrumental aggression. Journal of Personality Assessment. 87: 74-83. PMID 16856788 DOI: 10.1207/S15327752Jpa8701_06  0.345
2006 Vitacco MJ, Vincent GM. Understanding the Downward Extension of Psychopathy to Youth: Implications for Risk Assessment and Juvenile Justice International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. 5: 29-38. DOI: 10.1080/14999013.2006.10471228  0.356
2005 Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Jackson RL. Testing a four-factor model of psychopathy and its association with ethnicity, gender, intelligence, and violence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 73: 466-76. PMID 15982144 DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.73.3.466  0.345
2005 Vitacco MJ, Rogers R, Neumann CS, Harrison KS, Vincent G. A comparison of factor models on the PCL-R with mentally disordered offenders: The development of a four-factor model Criminal Justice and Behavior. 32: 526-545. DOI: 10.1177/0093854805278414  0.32
2004 Vitacco MJ, Packer IK. Mania and Insanity: An Analysis of Legal Standards and Recommendations for Clinical Practice Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice. 4: 83-95. DOI: 10.1300/J158V04N03_06  0.311
2003 Neumann CS, Vitacco M, Robertson A, Sewell K. Longitudinal assessment of callous/impulsive traits, substance abuse, and symptoms of depression in adolescents: a latent variable approach. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1008: 276-80. PMID 14998895 DOI: 10.1196/Annals.1301.031  0.312
2003 Vincent GM, Vitacco MJ, Grisso T, Corrado RR. Subtypes of adolescent offenders: affective traits and antisocial behavior patterns. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 21: 695-712. PMID 14696027 DOI: 10.1002/Bsl.556  0.345
2003 Rogers R, Sewell KW, Martin MA, Vitacco MJ. Detection of feigned mental disorders: a meta-analysis of the MMPI-2 and malingering. Assessment. 10: 160-77. PMID 12801188 DOI: 10.1177/1073191103010002007  0.304
2003 Vitacco MJ, Rogers R, Neumann CS. The antisocial process screening device: an examination of its construct and criterion-related validity. Assessment. 10: 143-50. PMID 12801186 DOI: 10.1177/1073191103010002005  0.346
2002 Rogers R, Vitacco MJ, Cruise KR, Sewell KW, Neumann CS. Screening for adolescent psychopathy among at-risk youth: initial validation of the Survey of Attitudes and Life Experiences. Assessment. 9: 343-50. PMID 12462754 DOI: 10.1177/1073191102238154  0.314
2002 Vitacco MJ, Neumann CS, Robertson AA, Durrant SL. Contributions of impulsivity and callousness in the assessment of adjudicated male adolescents: a prospective study. Journal of Personality Assessment. 78: 87-103. PMID 11936214 DOI: 10.1207/S15327752Jpa7801_06  0.319
2002 Rogers R, Vitacco MJ, Jackson RL, Martin M, Collins M, Sewell KW. Faking psychopathy? An examination of response styles with antisocial youth. Journal of Personality Assessment. 78: 31-46. PMID 11936210 DOI: 10.1207/S15327752Jpa7801_03  0.34
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