Plausible, but I'm skeptical... Psychopaths in prison are *literally* a captive population to study; psychopaths outside of prison are incentivized to stay out of psychopathy studies. If there's a sampling problem, it's going to skew results up on traits common in prison popshttps://twitter.com/sapinker/status/822504016731131906 …
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And the study can disguise the real motive, as many do
Experimental psychologists should be skeptical of any results that rely on self-report from an uncooperative population for reasons that are super obvious, *especially* if they're measuring something for which "ability to successfully avoid being tricked" would be a strong filter
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But you are assuming that people high in psychopathic traits will want to hide them in that test setting. Why would they?
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Because their entire lives function on the basis of deception in service of clear incentives, and they don't get an extra cookie if they're honest with the guy in the lab coat
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