A Selective Impairment in the Processing of Sad and Fearful Expressions in Children with Psychopathic Tendencies

By R. James R. Blair, E. Colledge, L. Murray, D. Mitchell. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Responding to the emotions of others: dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations. (2005, neutral): “While individuals with psychopathy are impaired in the processing of fearful and sad expressions , they show no impairment for the processing of happy expressions (Blair et al., 2001, 2002, 2005, in press-b; Kosson et al., 2002; Stevens et al., 2001).”
Psychopathy, Empathy, and Perspective -Taking Ability in a Community Sample: Implications for the Successful Psychopathy Concept (2006, background): “Others have found theoretically meaningful differences between psychopathic and non-psychopathic individuals on their psychophysiological responses to distress cues, startle reflex, and fear imagery (e.g., Blair, 1999; Blair, Jones, Clark, & Smith, 1997; Blair & Coles, 2001; Blair, Colledge, Murra”
Psychopathic Traits and Perceptions of Victim Vulnerability (2009, background): “For example, R. J. R. Blair et al. (2001) found that children with psychopathic traits had deficits for sad and fearful faces.”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, positive): “This finding replicates prior meta-analytic evidence (Costafreda et al. 2008) and is consistent with our hypothesis that the amygdala responds preferentially to salient exteroceptive (vs. interoceptive) sensations.”
The affective and cognitive empathic nature of the dark triad of personality. (2012, background): “Research shows that the presentation of simple facial expressions, depicting various emotions, can induce emotional contagion (Hess & Blairy, 2001; Wild, Erb, & Bartels, 2001).”
The Development of Empathy : How , When , and Why (2010, background): “In contrast, individuals with psychopathy show less physiological responsiveness to distress cues (Blair 1999; Blair et al. 1997; House & Milligan 1976) and deficits in their ability to recognize facial affect, particularly fear (Blair et al. 2001; Blair et al. 2004; Hastings et al. 2007).”
Moral Unreason: The Case of Psychopathy (2005, background): “They have problems willing the necessary 7 Adolescent psychopaths (mean age ffi 13 years of age) do not show impairments on standard reversal tasks, although they are impaired on the gambling task (Blair et al., 2001b).”
Empathic dysfunction in psychopathic individuals (2007, background): “While individuals with psychopathy are impaired in the processing of fearful and sad expressions, they show no impairment for the processing of happy expressions (Blair et al., 2001, 2002, 2003b, 2006; Kosson et al., 2002; Stevens et al., 2001).”
An fMRI study of intentional and unintentional (embarrassing) violations of social norms. (2002, background): “…2000; Blair et al., 2001), but have pronounced de®cit on functions that rely on the amygdala such as: aversive conditioning (Hare and Quinn, 1971), augmentation of the startle re¯ex (Levenston et al., 2000) and recognition of fearful expressions (Blair et al., 2001; Stevens et al., 2001).”
Roles of Callous-Unemotional Traits, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism in Childhood Aggression (2010, background): “Machiavellianism also has been distinguished from CU by virtue of the fact that, whereas youth with CU traits demonstrate deficits in empathy and the recognition of specific emotions (e.g., Blair et al. 2001 ; L oney et al. 2003; Woodworth and Waschbusch 2008), youth high in Machiavellianism are ab”
Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: a meta-analysis. (2008, background): “Many of those that do assess children (Blair and Coles, 2000; Blair et al. 2001; Stevens et al. 2001).”
Reduced amygdala response to fearful expressions in children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders. (2008, background): “Children with callous-unemotional traits exhibit abnormal behavioral responses to distress-related expressions, such as fearful expressions, relative to other expressions, such as anger (13), and fearful expressions engage the amygdala more than do neutral or angry expressions (14).”