Psychopathy and sensitivity to the emotional polarity of metaphorical statements

Hervé, Hugues; Hayes, Paula; Hare, Robert D.

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(02)00365-3

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“…In addition, previous research has shown that metaphors can be used to isolate the ability to perceive emotional connotations of written language. Specifically, psychopaths are able to describe the literal meaning of metaphors as well as a control group can, but are not able to identify even their most basic emotional connotations (i.e., whether the metaphor was positive or negative; Hervé, Hayes, & Hare, 2003). This is consistent with theories that the connotative and denotative information in metaphors are processed separately (Coney & Lange, 2006;Searle, 1979).…”

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“…We started with the set of 60 metaphors that were used by Hervé et al (2003; 18 of which originally came from Katz, Paivio, Marschark, & Clark, 1988). They included 30 positive metaphors (e.g., "Love is an antidote for the world's ills") and 30 negative metaphors (e.g., "Man is a worm that lives on the corpse of the earth") and included both literary and nonliterary sources.…”

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Measuring the Ability to Perceive the Emotional Connotations of Written Language

Barchard¹,

Hensley²,

Anderson³

et al. 2013

Journal of Personality Assessment

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Emotionally laden writing is essential to our personal and professional lives. The purpose of this article was to design and evaluate a new test of the ability to decode the emotional connotations of written material. A series of 3 studies (totaling 457 participants) were used to demonstrate that the Metaphors Test measures a single construct, has strong internal consistency, has strong convergent validity with tests related to emotional and social intelligence, and has strong discriminant validity with vocabulary and personality. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the Metaphors Test is more closely associated with emotion perception than emotional understanding. Unlike most other tests that tap this skill, the stimuli for the Metaphors Test do not include any explicit emotion words; it is therefore a unique and valuable measure of emotion perception.

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Measuring the Ability to Perceive the Emotional Connotations of Written Language

Barchard¹,

Hensley²,

Anderson³

et al. 2013

Journal of Personality Assessment

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“…Similarly, when asked to identify the emotion of the speaker based on prosody, psychopaths appear to be impaired in the recognition of fearful vocal affect . Psychopaths also have difficulty categorizing emotional metaphors (Herve et al, 2003). Evidence for abnormalities in language processing also comes from analyses of the speech of psychopathic individuals.…”

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A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy: Evidence for paralimbic system dysfunction

Kiehl

2006

Psychiatry Research

462

398

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Psychopathy is a complex personality disorder that includes interpersonal and affective traits such as glibness, lack of empathy, guilt or remorse, shallow affect, and irresponsibility, and behavioral characteristics such as impulsivity, poor behavioral control, and promiscuity. Much is known about the assessment of psychopathy; however, relatively little is understood about the relevant brain disturbances. The present review integrates data from studies of behavioral and cognitive changes associated with focal brain lesions or insults and results from psychophysiology, cognitive psychology and cognitive and affective neuroscience in health and psychopathy. The review illustrates that the brain regions implicated in psychopathy include the orbital frontal cortex, insula, anterior and posterior cingulate, amygdala, parahippocampal gyrus, and anterior superior temporal gyrus. The relevant functional neuroanatomy of psychopathy thus includes limbic and paralimbic structures that may be collectively termed 'the paralimbic system'. The paralimbic system dysfunction model of psychopathy is discussed as it relates to the extant literature on psychopathy.

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“…In clinical settings a cut-off of 75% and above (e.g., 30 out of 40 points on the PCL-R) is used to define psychopaths (Herve et al, 2001) and below 50%, (e.g., <20 out of 40 on the PCL-R) to define non-psychopaths (Blair et al, 1995;Richell et al, 2003). A low psychopathy score is thus deemed to be in the range 0-19 and a moderate score 20-29 for the full version of the checklist (PCL-R) while these same cut-off scores are 0-12 (out of 24) and 13-17 (out of 24) for the Psychopathy Checklist Screening Version (PCL:SV) (Guy and Douglas, 2006).…”

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Corporate Psychopaths, Bullying and Unfair Supervision in the Workplace

Boddy¹

2010

J Bus Ethics

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Psychopathy and sensitivity to the emotional polarity of metaphorical statements

Cited by 37 publications

References 13 publications

Measuring the Ability to Perceive the Emotional Connotations of Written Language

Measuring the Ability to Perceive the Emotional Connotations of Written Language

A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy: Evidence for paralimbic system dysfunction

Corporate Psychopaths, Bullying and Unfair Supervision in the Workplace

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