Psychology revision. A2, explanations of criminal behavior Raine and Lui study one.

Method Correlational study

Participants 101 boys aged 15 years

Procedure Correlational study which looked for a relationship between a number of physiological measures (skin conductance, EEG, and heart rate) taken at age 15 years and the number of offenses the participants had committed by the age of 24 years.

Results: The authors report a strong correlation between the two measures. Those Committing crimes had a significantly lower heart rates, reduced skin conductance and more slow-wave EEG theta activity than non - criminals. The authors claim that these measures correctly classified 74.7 per cent of all participants as criminal or non criminal.

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