“…It is so frequently stated that it is almost an article of faith that psychopathy entails profound deficits in emotional processing; emotion recognition deficits (Dawel et al, 2012;Wilson, Juodis & Porter, 2011), diminished fear-potentiated startle (Caes et al, 2012;Patrick, Bradley & Lang, 1993), poor fear-conditioning (Hare, 1978), reduced physiological reactivity to aversive stimuli (Gao & Raine, 2010;Lorber, 2004). Pain shares many features with the emotions, including a prominent affective-motivational component (Melzack & Casey, 1968), overlapping central nervous system organization (Etkin, Egner & Kalisch, 2011;Shackman, Salomons, Slagter, Fox, Winter & Davidson, 2011) and obvious relevance to the behaviour o f people who have been characterized as psychopathic.…”