The present study examined the modulating effect of negative mood induction on the processing of emotional information and its relation to psychopathy. Specifically, it examined two proposed links between emotion and attention associated with psychopathy. The first link was between the affective-interpersonal features (PPI-I, Coldheartedness) and deficient emotional processing. The second link was between the impulsivity-antisocial behavior (PPI-II) and emotional dysregulation as assessed by attending selectively to emotion-relevant stimuli and having difficulty disengaging from the affective information that has captured attention. Participants were either induced into a neutral or negative mood, and they viewed visual stimuli (emotionally positive vs. negative vs. neutral) and depending on the presented cue, they performed a cognitive task or just skipped it. This study found that psychopathic individuals had greater response latencies to negative pictures than nonpsychopathic individuals when they were induced into a negative mood. Additionally, when controlling the influence of other PPI factors, PPI-II marginally predicted interference to negative pictures whereas PPI-I predicted facilitation to positive pictures in general, and when interacting with a negative mood induction, it predicted interference to positive pictures. Noncriminal psychopaths may have increased reactivity to emotional stressors particularly when emotionally distressed. Furthermore, noncriminal psychopaths who are high on aggressive and impulsive tendencies might be very sensitive to emotionally distressing situations as a stable trait and respond to them directly from a slight provocativeness, whereas ones who are high on social potency and interpersonal manipulation might respond to those situations indirectly by switching attention to positive stimuli rather than responding to negative aspect of situations.