Dimensional assessment of psychopathy and relationship with physiological response to empathic images in juvenile offenders

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Maria Fernanda eAchá²  Antonio eSerafim²  Alvaro Machado Dias²  Geraldo eBusatto²  Daniel M Barros²  Gustavo eCastellana² 

[1]Federal University of Sao Paulo

[2]University of Sao Paulo

关键词: Electrophysiology;    Forensic Psychiatry;    Juvenile Delinquency;    psychopathy;    IAPS pictures;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00147

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Objective: Many psychophysiological studies investigate whether psychopaths present low levels of electrodermal activity (EDA). However, despite evidence that varying degrees of psychopathy are normally distributed in the population, there is a paucity of EDA studies evaluating dimensionally. Moreover, although lack of empathy is a cornerstone of psychopathy, there has been a lack of studies using pictures of empathic emotional content to assess psycophysiological responses. Method: We studied a population of young male delinquents (n=30) from a detention center, using the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R) to determine if higher levels of psychopathy were related to lesser degrees of EDA in response to emotion-eliciting pictures of empathic content. Results: There were significant correlations (p

【 授权许可】

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