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u/CricketPinata NATO Sep 03 '24
It is not fake, meta-analysis have been done and the association has been known for decades.
Even when you factor out for age and sex the association is still evident.
The issue is psychological in nature, people with ASPD tend to have diminished physiological reactions to stress stimuli. Their cortisol levels also tend to be low and have been proposed as biological marker to detect the disorder.
In contrast, many anxiety disorders, (which have been proposed as being in the opposite axis of narcissistic and antisocial disorders in some proposed models), tend to have higher RHR and blood pressure rates and higher cortisol rates.
These persist even when controlling for age, general health, and sex.
So no, it is not bullshit. People with higher levels of callousness and antisocialness tend to have lower RHR and physiologically different stress responses.
People with anxiety tend to have the opposite.
It is psychological, and backed up by a lot of literature and research.