Testing whether moral elevation moderates the relationship between psychopathic traits and prosocial behavior
psychopathic traits, psychopathy, psychopathic
SENSITIVITY
Analyses examining whether type of stimulus exposure moderated the negative association between psychopathic traits and prosocial behavior were non-significant, indicating that moral elevation exposure did not explain this relationship. In a mixed model ANCOVA evaluating effects of psychopathy, group, Run and sex after adjusting for participant characteristics, all higher order interactions were non-significant and sequentially removed, as described above. The psychopathic trait score by Group by Run interaction was non-significant (Sensitivity analyses removing some participants are reviewed in the Supplemental Materials; results were similar to those from our primary modified intent to treat sample.