The “Joker” laugh: Social judgments towards affective deviants in a sample of young offenders with callous unemotional traits

Rosa, Antonio Olivera-La; Chuquichambi, Erick G.; Carmona, César Andrés; Tobón, Olber Eduardo Arango; Amador, Omar; Rosselló, Jaume; Ingram, Gordon P. D.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111148

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“…In this vein, it may be argued that some ICU subscales' reliability partially varies according to culture [37]. However, we used a translated version of ICU that was previously applied to Colombian samples [52]. Future cross-cultural research on the association of CU traits and implicit violent cognition should be conducted.…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Implicit Attitudes toward Violence

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Past research has associated callous-unemotional traits (CU) in young people with serious conduct problems and antisocial behavior. However, whether CU traits influence implicit attitudes toward violence remains largely unexplored. We assess this hypothesis in two independent samples: a sample of youth with no criminal records (Study 1, N = 86), and in a sample of young offenders (Study 2, N = 61). Both groups were not compared due to theoretical (very different demographics) and statistical reasons (the total sample was insufficient to be able to reach the statistical power required in the comparison of both groups). Further, we use an implicit procedure to examine whether CU traits modulate wanting for violent stimuli. Across two samples of youth, we found little evidence of an association between CU traits and implicit violent cognition. In youth with no criminal records, implicit attitudes toward violence were related to the unemotional factor of CU traits, but unrelated to other factors and to a global CU traits score. CU traits were not associated with implicit attitudes toward violence in young offenders. The latter finding was mirrored in the implicit wanting task. Overall, our findings cast some doubts on the adequacy of implicit measures to assess implicit violent cognition in youth with CU traits. We discuss potential methodological limitations of this research (e.g., characteristics of the sample and performance in the implicit procedures) that may impact our results.

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“…All the studies are <18 min and this can be considered satisfactory; especially considering the works on the scarce reliability of long (>20 min) online studies (Revilla & Höhne, 2020; Revilla & Ochoa, 2017). Moreover, trustworthiness and creepiness were measured by using a 7‐point scale in previous online research on face perception (Olivera La Rosa et al., 2020; Olivera‐La Rosa et al., 2021). Participants responded to the shared moral values scale (Szczurek et al., 2012), by indicating how much they felt the target face shared their moral values (‘I feel the target individual shares most of the same moral values as me’), using a 6‐point scale ranging from 1 ( strongly disagree ) to 6 ( strongly agree ).…”

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“…Participants responded to the shared moral values scale (Szczurek et al, 2012), by indicating how much they felt the target face shared their moral values ('I feel the target individual shares most of the same moral values as me'), using a 6-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). The shared moral values scale was used as a 6-point scale as in previous research (Olivera-La Rosa et al, 2021;Szczurek et al, 2012).…”

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“…Indeed, inferring moral information from unfamiliar targets is a ubiquitous practice and often results from evaluations based on whatever information is available. For instance, moral behaviours (Uhlmann et al., 2015), affective reactions (Olivera‐La Rosa et al., 2021; Kastendieck et al., 2021) and uncanny faces (Olivera‐La Rosa et al., 2023b) have been revealed as sources of moral inferences. The latest finding is consistent with decades of research on face perception, showing that people spontaneously draw several first impressions from faces, a process that can be characterized as mainly automatic (Bar et al., 2006; Engell et al., 2007).…”

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Moral inferences from androgynous faces are beyond categorical uncertainty: Evidence of a positive bias towards androgynous targets

Ansani,

Olivera‐La Rosa

2024

Euro J Social Psych

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Postulating a negative bias towards social ambiguity, we conducted cross‐cultural online research to assess whether categorical discrepancies in the perception of androgynous faces were associated with the uncanny feeling and inferences of different morality. Across four studies, we found that androgynous faces were harder to classify into a binary sex category than sex‐typical faces, but this difficulty did not influence social judgements of androgynous targets in a negative fashion. In Study 1 (Spanish‐speaking sample, N = 76), we found that androgynous faces were rated as more trustworthy, less creepy, and less morally different than sex‐typical faces. Study 2 replicated most of the findings from Study 1 in an Italian sample (N = 45). Positive bias towards androgyny was not replicated with a different set of stimuli featuring faces of diverse ethnic backgrounds (Study 3, Spanish‐speaking sample, N = 140). However, results revealed a main effect of ethnicity in participants’ responses. When controlling for the effect of morphing procedures in stimuli selection, an overall positive bias towards androgynous targets arose, especially when compared to masculine targets (Study 4, Spanish‐speaking sample, N = 85). These findings suggest that, at least in certain conditions, a positive social bias towards androgynous faces may emerge that does not depend on categorical uncertainty and facial attractiveness.

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Perceptions of Creepiness and the “Kubrick Stare”

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Doyle

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Creepiness is a commonly experienced but little understood construct. The present study examined the impact of target facial image gender and orientation on perceptions of creepiness, and whether perceptions varied by participant sex and discomfort with ambiguity (DAS). Participants [n = 137, 68.6% female; Mage = 23.71 (9.73) years] rated the creepiness, trustworthiness, and attractiveness of 44 target images – 11 male and 11 female images, in each of two conditions: upright and downward tilted head or “Kubrick stare”. After controlling for participant age, results did not vary significantly by participant sex or DAS level (high vs. low). As predicted, creepiness ratings were significantly higher in the Kubrick stare (vs. upright) condition and for male (vs. female) faces with the magnitude of difference significantly higher for male (vs. female) faces in the Kubrick stare (vs. upright) condition; η2 = .46 [lower limit = .35 and upper limit = .54] vs. η2 = .32 [lower limit = .21 and upper limit = .41], respectively. There was no association between creepiness and trustworthiness in either condition. Results extend our understanding of how we perceive creepiness and the importance of face orientation in social processing.

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The “Joker” laugh: Social judgments towards affective deviants in a sample of young offenders with callous unemotional traits

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Exploring the Relationship between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Implicit Attitudes toward Violence

Exploring the Relationship between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Implicit Attitudes toward Violence

Moral inferences from androgynous faces are beyond categorical uncertainty: Evidence of a positive bias towards androgynous targets

Perceptions of Creepiness and the “Kubrick Stare”

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