Not just fear and sadness: Meta-analytic evidence of pervasive emotion recognition deficits for facial and vocal expressions in psychopathy

Initial development of an implicit and explicit approach to assess psychopathy

“…It suggests that within the current sample the affect elements were not associating as predicted and as expected by the literature (e.g. Blair et al, 2005;Dawel et al, 2012;Hastings et al, 2008). As predicted, the Lifestyle component of the ACL was positively associated with the Factor 2 (criminal history and lifestyle) component of the PCL-SV.…”

“…Affect is also noted as an important element of psychopathy (e.g. Cleckley, 1976;Cooke & Michie, 2001;Hastings et al, 2008;Dawel et al, 2012) although it may not have uniform application across samples.…”

“…poverty of major affective reactions including a lack of guilt/remorse and incapacity for affectional bonds (Cleckley, 1982); 2.) general affective deficits (Hastings et al, 2008;Dawel et al, 2012) including poor emotional recognition (Blair, 1995;Blair et al, 2005) which extends to reduced levels of anxiety/fear, sensitivity to punishment (Lykken, 1957;Newman, MacCoon, Vaughn & Sadeh, 2005) and a reduced ability to recognise some negative emotions, such as fear and sadness (Blair et al, 2004;Montagne et al, 2005). This also includes the misidentification of anger (Iria et al, 2012) and an absence of moral emotion (Blair et al 2005); 3.)…”

Punishment and psychopathy: a case-control functional MRI investigation of reinforcement learning in violent antisocial personality disordered men

“…Such individuals show reduced tonic skin conductance and cortisol concentrations, and have diffi culty recognising fear and sadness in the faces of others. 3 By contrast, men who have antisocial personality disorder without psychopathy are characterised by emotional lability, mood and anxiety disorders, and reactive aggression. 4 Although the two phenotypes emerge early in life, those who develop antisocial personality disorder with psychopathy begin off ending at an earlier age, engage in a broader range and higher frequency of off ending behaviours, 4 and respond less well to treatment in childhood 5 and adulthood 6 than those without psychopathy.…”

The ANKK1/DRD2 locus is a genomic substrate for affective priming and recognition of angry faces

“…2006) and emotional expression recognition (see Dawel et al. 2012; Marsh and Blair 2008, for meta‐analytic reviews). Therefore, we hypothesized here that these two emotion‐related cognitive phenomena are linked to Taq IA and C957T SNPs.…”