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Low Resting Heart Rate and Antisocial Behavior

A Brief Review of Evidence and Preliminary Results From a New Test

Todd A. Armstrong

Sam Houston State University

Shawn Keller

Sam Houston State University

Travis W. Franklin

Sam Houston State University

Scott N. Macmillan

Sam Houston State University

Despite a large body of research demonstrating a clear and consistent relationship between resting heart rate and antisocial behavior, little is understood about the relative influence on antisocial behavior of resting heart rate and other constructs central to criminological theories. Here, the authors offer an initial effort to bridge this gap in the literature by testing the relationship between resting heart rate and a measure of antisocial behavior net of attachment to parents, self-control, peer delinquency, and potential physiological confounds. Results from ANOVA show that those with low resting heart rates have significantly higher rates of severe antisocial behavior and aggressive antisocial behavior net of physiological confounds. Results from multivariate regression models show that low resting heart rate has a statistically significant relationship with severe antisocial behavior and aggressive behavior in models controlling for attachment to parents, self-control, peer delinquency, and physiological confounds.

Key Words: heart rate • crime • delinquency

This version was published on November 1, 2009

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 36, No. 11, 1125-1140 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854809342855
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