title: Attentional Bias in Psychopathy: An Examination of the Emotional Dot-Probe Task in Male Jail Inmates.
abstract: Numerous studies have identified differences in the identification of emotional displays between psychopaths and non-psychopaths; however, results have been equivocal regarding the nature of these differences. The present study investigated an alternative approach to examining the association between psychopathy and emotion processing by examining attentional bias to emotional faces; we used a modified dot-probe task to measure attentional bias toward emotional faces in comparison with neutral faces, among a sample of male jail inmates assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). Results indicated a positive association between psychopathy and attention toward happy versus neutral faces, and that this association was attributable to Factor 1 of the psychopathy construct.
authors: The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada hanie.edalati@ubc.ca.
authors: Hanie
authors: H
authors: Edalati
authors: The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada.
authors: Zach
authors: Z
authors: Walsh
authors: Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL, USA.
authors: David S
authors: DS
authors: Kosson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D000070379:Attentional Bias; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011329:Prisoners; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: attentional bias; emotion processing; emotional faces; psychopathy