OBJECTIVE Compared with other jobs, the law enforcement profession is a high-stakes occupation that has the potential to greatly impact public safety, and officers must face daily dangers not experienced in other professions. Previous research indicates that many law enforcement officers exhibit varying degrees of psychopathic traits, which suggests that it may be useful to examine police officer performance, specifically proxies of excessive use of force, through the lens of the triarchic psychopathy domains. HYPOTHESES We predicted that high boldness and high meanness would be associated with greater justification of excessive use of force, whereas low boldness, high meanness, and high disinhibition would relate to greater errors in high-stakes decision making ("trigger bias"). METHOD We employed criterion profile analysis to elucidate optimal profile configurations in both law enforcement and undergraduate samples in relation to justification of use-of-force scenarios and decision making in high-pressure situations (i.e., police officer's dilemma shooter task). RESULTS In general, combinations of triarchic psychopathy traits accounted for similar variance in performance criteria as individual psychopathy trait domains. In particular, trait elevations in meanness were associated with ratings of unjustified-use-of-force vignettes, and disinhibition was associated with commission errors on the shooter task (although effect sizes were small for the latter). CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study support the conceptual validity of the separate dimensions of the triarchic psychopathy model and substantiate the moderate utility of personality indicators (e.g., antagonism, difficulties with impulse control) in relation to career-related performance in law enforcement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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在火力下保持冷静：以执法为导向的人群的精神病态人格特征和决策。

目标与其他职业相比，执法职业是一个高风险职业，有可能对公共安全产生巨大影响，警官每天必须面对其他职业没有经历过的危险。先前的研究表明，许多执法人员表现出不同程度的精神病特征，这表明通过三元精神病领域的视角来检查警察的表现，特别是过度使用武力的表现可能是有用的。假设我们预测，高大胆性和高卑鄙性将与过度使用武力的更大合理性相关，而低大胆性、高卑鄙性和高去抑制性将与高风险决策中更大的错误有关（“触发偏差”）。方法 我们采用标准概况分析来阐明执法和本科生样本中与高压情况下使用武力场景和决策（即警察的困境射击任务）的合理性相关的最佳概况配置。结果 一般来说，三元精神病特征的组合与个体精神病特征领域一样，在表现标准上也造成了类似的差异。特别是，卑鄙特征的提升与不合理使用武力片段的评级有关，而去抑制则与射击任务中的委托错误有关（尽管后者的效应规模很小）。结论 本研究的结果支持三元精神病模型不同维度的概念有效性，并证实了人格指标（例如，对抗性、冲动控制困难）与执法中职业相关绩效的适度效用。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。