Mindreading abilities in sexual offenders: An analysis of theory of mind processes

Castellino, N; Bosco, Francesca; Marshall, William L.; Marshall, Liam E.; Veglia, Fabio

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.011

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“…The Th.o.m.a.s. has proven to be a useful clinical tool in the assessment of mindreading ability of several populations of adolescent participants , individuals with alcohol use disorder (Bosco et al, 2013), patients with congenital heart disease (Chiavarino et al, 2015), sex offenders (Castellino et al, 2011), nonsuicidal self-injury adolescents (Laghi et al, 2016), adolescents with bulimia (Laghi et al, 2014) and opiate-dependent patients (Gandolphe et al, 2018).…”

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Mindreading abilities and borderline personality disorder: A comprehensive assessment using the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale

Colle

Gabbatore

Riberi³

et al. 2019

Psychiatry Research

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This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Highlights  Mindreading impairment in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD)  Th.o.m.a.s. interview allowed to assess different aspects of real-life mindreading  BPD performed worse than controls on allocentric perspective-taking  Mindreading functions as assessed by Th.o.m.a.s. correlates with depressive symptoms

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Mindreading abilities and borderline personality disorder: A comprehensive assessment using the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale

Colle

Gabbatore

Riberi³

et al. 2019

Psychiatry Research

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“…is a semi-structured interview aimed at assessing a subject's ToM (Bosco, Colle, De Fazio, et al, 2009 ; see also Bosco, Capozzi, Colle, Marostica, & Tirassa, 2013;Bosco, Gabbatore, & Tirassa, 2013;Castellino, Bosco, Marshall, Marshall, & Veglia, 2011). is a semi-structured interview aimed at assessing a subject's ToM (Bosco, Colle, De Fazio, et al, 2009 ; see also Bosco, Capozzi, Colle, Marostica, & Tirassa, 2013;Bosco, Gabbatore, & Tirassa, 2013;Castellino, Bosco, Marshall, Marshall, & Veglia, 2011).…”

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“…The Th.o.m.a.s. is a semi-structured interview aimed at assessing a subject's ToM (Bosco, Colle, De Fazio, et al, 2009 ; see also Bosco, Capozzi, Colle, Marostica, & Tirassa, 2013;Bosco, Gabbatore, & Tirassa, 2013;Castellino, Bosco, Marshall, Marshall, & Veglia, 2011 Each scale is divided into three subscales that, respectively, explore the dimensions of: Awareness, that is, the interviewee's ability to perceive and differentiate beliefs, desires, and emotions in herself and in others; Relation, that is, the interviewee's ability to recognize causal relations between different mental states and between them and the resulting behaviours and Realization, that is, the interviewee's ability to adopt effective strategies to achieve a desired state. Based on the most important types of mental states that a person is able to conceive (Tirassa, 1999;Tirassa & Bosco, 2008;Tirassa, Bosco & Colle, 2006a,b), the questions focus on epistemic states (knowledge, beliefs, and so on), volitional states (desires, intentions, and so on), and positive and negative emotions (for a more detailed description please see Bosco, Colle, De Fazio, et al, 2009;; for the Italian version of the test as it has been administrated to the participants please see Data S1).…”

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An exploratory assessment of theory of mind and psychological impairment in patients with bulimia nervosa

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Cecere³

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British J of Psychology

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This study aimed to investigate psychosocial functioning and different dimensions of theory of mind (ToM) in people with bulimia nervosa (BN) and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified-BN type (EDNOS-BN). Psychosocial functioning and ToM were assessed in a sample of young adult females, 16 BN and 16 EDNOS-BN outpatients and 16 healthy controls (HCs). They were assessed using the Eating Disorder Inventory-Symptom Checklist-2 (EDI-2 SC) for evaluating psychological traits associated with eating disorders; the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) for evaluating psychopathological status; and the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale (Th.o.m.a.s.), a semi-structured interview aimed at assessing a person's different dimensions of ToM. The BN and EDNOS-BN groups exhibited worse performance than the control group on all dimensions of the SCL-90-R, and on all dimensions of the EDI-2 SC. The only difference for perfectionism was that BN obtained higher scores than EDNOS-BN group. Our results also revealed an impairment of third-person and second-order ToM in patients with bulimia (BN and EDNOS-BN) with respect to control subjects. These preliminary data have important implications for future empirical work, in that they provide valuable information regarding the importance of investigating the various facets of ToM ability separately, in order to provide a more detailed profile of ToM functioning in the clinical samples.

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“…Sex offenders seem to show deficits in cognitive perspective taking as measured with so-called higher order cognitive theory of mind tasks (Castellino et al, 2011) as well as emotional perspective taking (Elsegood and Duff, 2010) measured via the reading the mind in the eyes task (Baron-Cohen et al, 2001). Regarding psychopathy, Dolan and Fullam (2004) reported no differences in cognitive perspective taking between psychopathic and non-psychopathic offenders and controls.…”

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Empathic competencies in violent offenders

Seidel

Pfabigan

Keckeis

et al. 2013

Psychiatry Research

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Violent offending has often been associated with a lack of empathy, but experimental investigations are rare. The present study aimed at clarifying whether violent offenders show a general empathy deficit or specific deficits regarding the separate subcomponents. To this end, we assessed three core components of empathy (emotion recognition, perspective taking, affective responsiveness) as well as skin conductance response (SCR) in a sample of 30 male violent offenders and 30 healthy male controls. Data analysis revealed reduced accuracy in violent offenders compared to healthy controls only in emotion recognition, and that a high number of violent assaults was associated with decreased accuracy in perspective taking for angry scenes. SCR data showed reduced physiological responses in the offender group specifically for fear and disgust stimuli during emotion recognition and perspective taking. In addition, higher psychopathy scores in the violent offender group were associated with reduced accuracy in affective responsiveness. This is the first study to show that mainly emotion recognition is deficient in violent offenders whereas the other components of empathy are rather unaffected. This divergent impact of violent offending on the subcomponents of empathy suggests that all three empathy components can be targeted by therapeutic interventions separately.

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Mindreading abilities in sexual offenders: An analysis of theory of mind processes

Cited by 28 publications

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Mindreading abilities and borderline personality disorder: A comprehensive assessment using the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale

Mindreading abilities and borderline personality disorder: A comprehensive assessment using the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale

An exploratory assessment of theory of mind and psychological impairment in patients with bulimia nervosa

Empathic competencies in violent offenders

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