Empathy and recognition of facial expressions of emotion in sex offenders, non-sex offenders and normal controls

Gery, Isabelle; Miljkovitch, Raphaële; Berthoz, Sylvie; Soussignan, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2007.11.006

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“…This would fit with previous findings linking emotional empathy to expression recognition (Gery et al, 2009;Martin et al, 1996) and emotional expression recognition being a prerequisite for providing a caring response (Blair, 2005).…”

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If I Cry, Do You Care?

Lockwood

Millings

Hepper

et al. 2013

Journal of Individual Differences

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Crying is a powerful solicitation of caregiving, yet little is known about the cognitive processes underpinning caring responses to crying others. This study examined (1) whether crying (compared to sad and happy) faces differentially elicited semantic activation of caregiving, and (2) whether individual differences in cognitive and emotional empathy moderated this activation. Ninety participants completed a lexical decision task in which caregiving, neutral, and nonwords were presented after subliminal exposure (24 ms) to crying, sad, and happy faces. Individuals low in cognitive empathy had slower reaction times to caregiving (vs. neutral) words after exposure to crying faces, but not after sad or happy faces. Results are discussed with respect to the role of empathy in response to crying others.

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If I Cry, Do You Care?

Lockwood

Millings

Hepper

et al. 2013

Journal of Individual Differences

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“…It is becoming more widely recognized that emotions and affective states are an important factor in sexual offending (Cortoni & Marshall, 201;Day, 2009;Howell, Day, & Wright, 2004;Gery, Miljkovitch, Berthoz, & Soussignan, 2009), and research findings have suggested that sexual fantasy may play an important role in this relationship (DiGiorgio-Miller, 2007;Gee et al, 2003;Looman, 1995Looman, , 1997Mann, 2004;McKibben, Proulx, & Lusignan, 1994;Pithers et al, 1983;Proulx, McKibben, & Lusignan, 1996). Pithers et al (1983) (1994) found that rapists reported experiencing rejection, inadequacy, anger, humiliation, and loneliness following an interpersonal conflict.…”

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Understanding the sexual fantasies of sex offenders and their correlates

Bartels¹,

Gannon²

2011

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Sexual fantasy is proposed to be an important factor in sexual offending. However, the existing research on this topic suggests that its role is multifaceted and interrelated with various other important factors associated with the sex offender. Thus, in this paper, we begin by examining some of the conceptual and definitional issues regarding the term ‗deviant sexual fantasy'. We then discuss the literature relating to sexual fantasies and some of its chief correlates, including: (1) sexual arousal, (2) affective states, (3) personality, and (4) behavior. Throughout the paper we discuss the relevant research and theories; identify the possible areas for future research; and offer some novel suggestions for theoretical development.

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“…Both psychological and cognitive neuroscience research demonstrated that empathy has distinct cognitive and affective components [12][13][14][15][16] which require measurement, and a number of devices have been developed for this purpose. These have included evaluating an individual's responses to videotapes, other visual stimuli or the reports of one's empathy by others.…”

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“…Although it is widely accepted that the relationship between empathy and antisocial behaviour is simply the converse of the empathy-prosocial behaviour relationship [13,14,23], some interesting derivations have been noted. For example, some research has noted that, in line with expectation, empathy is negatively related to aggression and disruptive behaviour [24], children and adolescents with conduct disorders had significantly lower empathy than those in the control group [2,25], while others have not found evidence that those who act antisocially have lower empathy [6].…”

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The Basic Empathy Scale: A Chinese Validation of a Measure of Empathy in Adolescents

Geng

Xia

Qin

2012

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

115

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Basic Empathy Scale (BES). The Chinese version of BES was administered to a sample (n = 1,524) aged 9-18 and 65 males with conduct disorder aged 13-18. The result of confirmatory factor analysis showed a two-factor structure with four items deleted to be the most adequate model (cognitive empathy, affective empathy). Empathy was positively correlated with a measure of prosocial behaviour and a measure of emotional problems. Boys with conduct disorder scored significantly lower than matched participants on cognitive empathy. Moreover, in line with previous researches, girls were found to score significantly higher on empathy than boys and the scores on both cognitive and affective empathy increased with age. The Chinese revision exhibited satisfactory internal consistency and moderate test-retest reliability.

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Empathy and recognition of facial expressions of emotion in sex offenders, non-sex offenders and normal controls

Cited by 105 publications

References 54 publications

If I Cry, Do You Care?

If I Cry, Do You Care?

Understanding the sexual fantasies of sex offenders and their correlates

The Basic Empathy Scale: A Chinese Validation of a Measure of Empathy in Adolescents

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