In a family with somatic symptom disorder, the male relatives are at increased risk for antisocial personality disorder. What are the underlying characteristics that tie these disorders together?

a. mania and psychasthenia
b. extraversion and agreeableness
c. sensation seeking and irresponsibility
d. absence of inhibition and high negative emotion

Answer: d.

Psychology

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a) the latent dream; the manifest dream b) the manifest dream; the latent dream c) free association; unconscious process d) psychosexual; conscious

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