Deafness to fear in boys with psychopathic tendencies

The processing of the emotional signals of others is fundamental for normal socialization and interaction. Reduced responsiveness to the expressions of sadness and fear has been implicated in the development of psychopathy (Blair, 1995). The current study investigates the ability of boys with psycho...

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Published in:Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 2005-03, Vol.46 (3), p.327-336
Main Authors: Blair, R.J.R., Budhani, S., Colledge, E., Scott, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Affective Behavior
Amygdala
Amygdala - physiopathology
Antisocial Personality Disorder - diagnosis
Antisocial Personality Disorder - epidemiology
Antisocial Personality Disorder - physiopathology
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Boys
Brain mechanisms
Child
Child clinical studies
Cognitive processing
Comparative Analysis
Deafness
Ears & hearing
Emotional responsiveness
Fear
Fear & phobias
Humans
integrated emotion systems
Interaction
Intonation
Male
Males
Mass Screening - methods
Medical sciences
Mental health
Personality Problems
Psychological Patterns
Psychological Tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
psychopathic tendencies
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychopathy
Risk assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Social behavior disorders
Socialization
Vocabulary
Voice
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Summary:The processing of the emotional signals of others is fundamental for normal socialization and interaction. Reduced responsiveness to the expressions of sadness and fear has been implicated in the development of psychopathy (Blair, 1995). The current study investigates the ability of boys with psychopathic tendencies to process auditory affect information. Boys with psychopathic tendencies and a comparison group, as defined by the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD: Frick & Hare, 2001), were presented with neutral words spoken with intonations conveying happiness, disgust, anger, sadness and fear and were asked to identify the emotion of the speaker based on prosody. The boys with psychopathic tendencies presented with a selective impairment for the recognition of fearful vocal affect. These results are interpreted with reference to amygdala dysfunction and components of the Integrated Emotion Systems model.
ISSN:0021-9630
1469-7610
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00356.x