Effects of induced anger in patients with antisocial personality disorder

Lobbestael, Jill; Arntz, Arnoud; Cima, Maaike; Chakhssi, Farid

doi:10.1017/s0033291708005102

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“…Furthermore, results show faster response time in the post Anger-Single Target Implicit Association Test 42 , indicating a stronger ‘self’-‘anger’ concept association after provocation, but these results are non-significant and there is no differences in implicit anger between VOF and NOC (see Table 2). …”

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Anger provocation in violent offenders leads to emotion dysregulation

Tonnaer

Siep

Zutphen

et al. 2017

Sci Rep

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Anger and anger regulation problems that result in aggressive behaviour pose a serious problem for society. In this study we investigated differences in brain responses during anger provocation or anger engagement, as well as anger regulation or distraction from anger, and compared 16 male violent offenders to 18 non-offender controls. During an fMRI adapted provocation and regulation task participants were presented with angry, happy and neutral scenarios. Prior research on violent offenders indicates that a combination of increased limbic activity (involved in emotion), along with decreased prefrontal activity (involved in emotion regulation), is associated with reactive aggression. We found increased ventrolateral prefrontal activity during anger engagement in violent offenders, while decreased dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal activity was found during anger distraction. This activity pattern was specific for anger. We found no exclusive pattern for happiness. In violent offenders, this suggests an increased need to regulate specifically during anger engagement and regulation difficulties when explicitly instructed to distract. The constant effort required for violent offenders to regulate anger might exhaust the necessary cognitive resources, resulting in a risk for self-control failure. Consequently, continuous provocation might ultimately contribute to reactive aggression.

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Anger provocation in violent offenders leads to emotion dysregulation

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Siep

Zutphen

et al. 2017

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“…Notably, all three groups showed comparable self-reported emotional responses, similar to results from Habel et al (2002) using a mood induction paradigm. Applying an anger induction to a sample of offenders with antisocial personality disorder, Lobbestael et al (2009) reported cardiovascular hyporeactivity compared to controls but again no differences in self-reported anger levels. Testing non-psychopathic offender groups with and without antisocial personality disorder, Wahlund et al (2010) also observed lower skin conductance responses (SCRs) but also reduced self-reported emotional responses to negative pictures.…”

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Empathic competencies in violent offenders

Seidel

Pfabigan

Keckeis

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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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“…In a similar vein, Blackburn and Lee-Evans (2011) found that psychopathic participants anticipated that they would respond with greater anger than non-psychopaths to a variety of anger-inducing scenarios. Lobbestael et al (2009) performed an anger induction task in individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder (who varied in psychopathic traits), Borderline Personality Disorder and controls. The induction task entailed recalling a situation in which subjects had experienced a conflict with another person and had felt very angry, after which subjects spent several minutes recalling the details of the event.…”

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What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy?

Marsh¹

2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Psychopathy is a developmental disorder associated with core affective traits, such as low empathy, guilt, and remorse, and with antisocial and aggressive behaviors. Recent neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies of psychopathy in both institutionalized and community samples have begun to illuminate the basis of this condition, in particular the ways that psychopathy affects the experience and recognition of fear. In this review, I will consider how understanding emotional processes in psychopathy can shed light on the three questions central to the study of emotion: (1) Are emotions discrete, qualitatively distinct phenomena, or quantitatively varying phenomena best described in terms of dimensions like arousal and valence? (2) What are the brain structures involved in generating specific emotions like fear, if any? And (3) how do our own experiences of emotion pertain to our perceptions of and responses to others' emotion? I conclude that insights afforded by the study of psychopathy may provide better understanding of not only fundamental social phenomena like empathy and aggression, but of the basic emotional processes that motivate these behaviors.

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Effects of induced anger in patients with antisocial personality disorder

Abstract: ASPD patients did not display a deviant self-reported anger but physiological hyporesponsivity and cognitive hyper-responsivity. This ASPD anger response might reflect a controlled predatory-like fight preparation.

Cited by 65 publications

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Anger provocation in violent offenders leads to emotion dysregulation

Anger provocation in violent offenders leads to emotion dysregulation

Empathic competencies in violent offenders

What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy?

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