Personality and belief in Capital Punishment: a replication and extension

Male and female Canadian undergraduates identified as high or low on Extraversion and Psychoticism on the basis of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire completed the Questionnaire on Capital Punishment. In a replication of a previous study, males and extraverts reported more favourable attitudes towards Capital Punishment than females and introverts. In contrast, there were no significant differences in attitude between subjects classified as high and low on Psychoticism, a result which may be due to the difficulty of finding normal subjects with absolutely high scores on this trait.