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| Research article summary (published 30 May 2002): |
Deficient response modulation and emotion processing in low-anxious Caucasian psychopathic offenders: results from a lexical decision task.
Full Abstract
The clinical and research literatures on psychopathy have identified an emotion paradox:
Psychopaths display normal appraisal but impaired use of emotion cues. Using R. D. Hare's (1991) Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and the G. S. Welsh Anxiety Scale (1956), the authors identified low-anxious psychopaths and controls and examined predictions concerning their performance on a lexical-decision task. Results supported all the predictions:
(a) low-anxious psychopaths appraised emotion cues as well as controls; (b) their lexical decisions were relatively unaffected by emotion cues; (c) their lexical decisions were relatively unaffected by affectively neutral word-frequency cues; and (d) their performance deficits were specific to conditions involving right-handed responses. The authors propose that deficient response modulation may underlie both the emotional and cognitive deficits associated with low-anxious psychopaths.
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Author/s: Lorenz, Amanda R (AR); Newman, Joseph P (JP);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Emotion (Washington, D.C.) (Emotion), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 2 (issue 2) : pp 91-104
Dates: Created 2003/08/05; Completed 2003/10/27; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12899184, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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