Reduced sensitivity to others’ fearful expressions in psychopathic individuals

By R. James R. Blair, D. Mitchell, K. Peschardt, E. Colledge, R. A. Leonard, J. Shine, L. Murray, David I. Perrett. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Reduced amygdala response to fearful expressions in children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders. (2008, background): “Previous behavioral work has demonstrated that individuals with callous-unemotional traits show no impairment in the recognition of angry expressions (45, 46).”
Would I lie to you? ''leakage'' in deceptive facial expressions relates to psychopathy and emotional intelligence (2011, background): “…have shown that psychopathic individuals have problems recognizing negative emotional expressions in others, especially fear and sadness (e.g., Blair et al., 2004; Fairchild, van Goozen, Calder, Stollery, & Goodyer, 2009; Hasting, Tangney, & Stuewig, 2008), Book, Quinsey, and Langford (2007)…”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “On the other end of the continuum, Blair and colleagues have found that extremely violent people showed little emotional reaction to those who suffer (e.g., Blair et al., 2004).”
Empathic dysfunction in psychopathic individuals (2007, background): “Blair et al. (2004) also found some impairment in the adults with psychopathy for the recognition of disgusted expressions, however this deficit was not present if the effect of intelligence quotient (IQ) was co-varied out.”
Psychopathic Traits and Perceptions of Victim Vulnerability (2009, background): “Other research has discovered deficits only for fearful facial expressions (e.g., R. J. R. Blair et al., 2004; Montagne et al., 2005) or sadness (Dolan & Fullam, 2006; Hastings et al., 2008).”
Investigating associations between empathy, morality and psychopathic personality traits in the general population (2012, background): “…research has found that adults and children with high levels of psychopathic traits have a selective impairment in the recognition of others’ distress, particularly fear and sadness (e.g. Blair, Colledge, Murray, & Mitchell, 2001; Blair, et al., 2002; Blair et al., 2004; Montagne, et al., 2005).”
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Social‐Cognitive Perspective (2012, background): “…to mental states) in patients with borderline personality disorder (e.g., Sharp et al., 2011), reduced mentalizing in psychopathic individuals (e.g., Blair et al., 2004), and distorted mentalizing in conduct disorder (e.g., Sharp, Croudace, & Goodyer, THE SOCIAL-COGNITIVE BASIS OF PTSD SHARP ET AL.”
A case-control study of offenders with high functioning autistic spectrum disorders (2005, background): “…response to the distress cues of others has consistently shown that people with a diagnosis of psychopathy on the PCL-R (Hare, 2003) are impaired in the processing of others’ distress cues (Blair, 1995, 1997; Blair et al., 1997; Blair & Coles, 2000; Blair et al., 2001; Blair et al., 2004).”
The affective and cognitive empathic nature of the dark triad of personality. (2012, result): “Additionally, primary psychopaths experienced positive affect towards angry and fearful expressions, the latter of which had also been found in other studies (Blair et al., 2004; Montagne et al., 2005).”
Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: a meta-analysis. (2008, background): “Only three studies we assessed provided error information (Blair et al. 2004; Matheson et al. 2005; Walz and Benson, 1996), and examination of these data did not reveal clear error patterns for fear or sadness.”
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).”