Employing matched tests to assess facial affect recognition anomalies in offenders high in psychopathy

Beussink, Courtney; Chi, Terry; Walsh, Zach; Riser, Nastassia R.E.; Kosson, David S.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.109945

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“…Once again, this explanation seems unlikely, given that the origin of the sample (incarcerated vs. community) does not appear to influence the relationship between psychopathy and emotion categorization accuracy [3]. Therefore, the current study joins other studies that have found no facial emotion categorization deficit in individuals high in psychopathy [4,60,61].…”

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An examination of autonomic and facial responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in psychopathy

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Meta-analyses have found that people high in psychopathy categorize (or “recognize”) others’ prototypical facial emotion expressions with reduced accuracy. However, these have been contested with remaining questions regarding the strength, specificity, and mechanisms of this ability in psychopathy. In addition, few studies have tested holistically whether psychopathy is related to reduced facial mimicry or autonomic arousal in response to others’ dynamic facial expressions. Therefore, the current study presented 6 s videos of a target person making prototypical emotion expressions (anger, fear, disgust, sadness, joy, and neutral) to N = 88 incarcerated adult males while recording facial electromyography, skin conductance response (SCR), and heart rate. Participants identified the emotion category and rated the valence and intensity of the target person’s emotion. Psychopathy was assessed via the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). We predicted that overall PCL-R scores and scores for the interpersonal/affective traits, in particular, would be related to reduced emotion categorization accuracy, valence ratings, intensity ratings, facial mimicry, SCR amplitude, and cardiac deceleration in response to the prototypical facial emotion expressions. In contrast to our hypotheses, PCL-R scores were unrelated to emotion categorization accuracy, valence ratings, and intensity ratings. Stimuli failed to elicit facial mimicry from the full sample, which does not allow drawing conclusions about the relationship between psychopathy and facial mimicry. However, participants displayed general autonomic arousal responses, but not to prototypical emotion expressions per se. PCL-R scores were also unrelated to SCR and cardiac deceleration. These findings failed to identify aberrant behavioral and physiological responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in relation to psychopathy.

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An examination of autonomic and facial responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in psychopathy

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“…However, this explanation seems unlikely, given that meta-analyses found categorization deficits for emotion categories that were included in the present study's stimuli, including fear, sadness, and happiness (2,3). Therefore, the current study joins other studies that have found no facial emotion categorization deficit in individuals high in psychopathy (4,60,61). Some researchers have contested the idea that even healthy individuals can "read" others' emotions from facial muscle configurations, or that prototypical facial emotion expressions reliably correspond to a given emotional state (31,32).…”

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An examination of autonomic and facial responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in psychopathy

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Some studies have suggested that psychopathic traits are associated with a general FAR deficit (Prado et al, 2015), whereas others have suggested deficits circumscribed to specific emotions, such as fear, sadness, happiness, or disgust (Blair et al, 2004; Dolan & Fullam, 2006; Kosson et al, 2002; Pera-Guardiola et al, 2016). Moreover, some studies have reported no relationship between psychopathic traits and deficits in FAR (Book et al, 2007; Glass & Newman, 2006; Pham & Philippot, 2010) or have even reported superiority in FAR for some emotions (Beussink et al, 2020; Del Gaizo & Falkenbach, 2008; Hansen et al, 2008). Even when emotion-specific FAR deficits are reported, the nature of the deficits is neither wholly consistent with any perspective nor consistent across paradigms (Brook et al, 2013).…”

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Examining the association between speed–accuracy trade-offs and psychopathy among male offenders in a facial affect recognition task.

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Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

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Despite a large body of work examining the relationship between facial affect recognition and psychopathy, there is little consensus regarding the nature of emotion processing in such individuals. Although most previous studies have reported an association between psychopathy and some facial affect recognition deficits, results are mixed regarding which specific emotions are related to deficient recognition for these individuals. The current study aims to examine speed-accuracy trade-offs in psychopathy. Participants were 139 incarcerated adult male offenders assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Analyses demonstrated a 3-way interaction between psychopathy, response time, and level of stimulus expression for happiness in which psychopathy mitigated the relationship between response time and level of expression on accuracy. However, the overall pattern of findings does not suggest that speed-accuracy trade-offs are a central component of facial affect recognition in psychopathy. The theoretical implications of current findings are discussed.

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Employing matched tests to assess facial affect recognition anomalies in offenders high in psychopathy

Cited by 5 publications

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An examination of autonomic and facial responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in psychopathy

An examination of autonomic and facial responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in psychopathy

An examination of autonomic and facial responses to prototypical facial emotion expressions in psychopathy

Examining the association between speed–accuracy trade-offs and psychopathy among male offenders in a facial affect recognition task.

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