Progress achieved since the field of neuroscience have established a new route to understanding the levels of responsibility in the development and regulation of behaviors that have a legal scope. According to this, the aim of the present study was to establish if there is a relation between executive functions and the performance on duties which evaluate social cognition in a group of male abusers. A non-experimental method of ex post facto type, transactional-correlational was applied; data were gathered by means of instruments that evaluated the variables of the study. Thirty four men participated, they were divided like this: seventeen batterers and seventeen nonbatterers between twenty five and fifty eight years. For data gathering, these tests were used for executive functions: Rey-Copy, STROOP, Wisconsin, TMT, Porteus Crossroad and for social cognition: Faux pas, Stories test, eyes test, face test and EQ-Cambridge. SPSS 22 was used for data analysis. In general, the results of this research allow to conclude that there is a relation between the performance on duties which evaluate executive functions and those that evaluate social cognition. It presented a better activities development by non-batterer men.

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