Brief communication: psychopathy and recognition of facial expressions of emotion.
This study investigated the relationship between symptom clusters of psychopathy, as measured by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare 1991), and ability to recognize facial expressions of emotion. Participants were 43 adult male inmates. Facial expressions of emotion were taken from Ekman and Frisen (1976). The present results indicated that there were some significant relationships between facets of psychopathy and processing of disgust facial expressions. The experiment highlighted the importance of studying specific clusters of psychopathic symptoms, as opposed to measures of global symptomatology.
Hansen
Anita Lill
AL
University of Bergen, Norway. anita.hansen@psysp.uib.no
Johnsen
Bjørn Helge
BH
Hart
Stephen
S
Waage
Leif
L
Thayer
Julian F
JF
D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D021641:Recognition, Psychology