Morosan, L;
Badoud, D;
Zaharia, A;
Brosch, T;
Eliez, S;
Bateman, A;
Heller, P;
(2017)
Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents.
PLoS One
, 12
(1)
10.1371/journal.pone.0170646.
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Abstract
Background Previous research suggests that antisocial individuals present impairment in social cognitive processing, more specifically in emotion recognition (ER) and perspective taking (PT). The first aim of the present study was to investigate the recognition of a wide range of emotional expressions and visual PT capacities in a group of incarcerated male adolescents in comparison to a matched group of community adolescents. Secondly, we sought to explore the relationship between these two mechanisms in relation to psychopathic traits. Methods Forty-five male adolescents (22 incarcerated adolescents (Mage = 16.52, SD = 0.96) and 23 community adolescents (Mage = 16.43, SD = 1.41)) participated in the study. ER abilities were measured using a dynamic and multimodal task that requires the participants to watch short videos in which trained actors express 14 emotions. PT capacities were examined using a task recognized and proven to be sensitive to adolescent development, where participants had to follow the directions of another person whilst taking into consideration his perspective. Results We found a main effect of group on emotion recognition scores. In comparison to the community adolescents, the incarcerated adolescents presented lower recognition of three emotions: interest, anxiety and amusement. Analyses also revealed significant impairments in PT capacities in incarcerated adolescents. In addition, incarcerated adolescents’ PT scores were uniquely correlated to their scores on recognition of interest. Conclusions The results corroborate previously reported impairments in ER and PT capacities, in the incarcerated adolescents. The study also indicates an association between impairments in the recognition of interest and impairments in PT.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0170646 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | : © 2017 Morosan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, FACIAL AFFECT RECOGNITION, CALLOUS-UNEMOTIONAL TRAITS, ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY-DISORDERS, PSYCHOPATHIC TENDENCIES, VIOLENT OFFENDERS, FEARFUL EXPRESSIONS, CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATHS, SEX OFFENDERS, DEFICITS, CHILDREN |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1568248 |
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