Title of article :
Facial emotion recognition in Scottish prisoners
Author/Authors :
Robinson، نويسنده , , Louise and Spencer، نويسنده , , Michael D. and Thomson، نويسنده , , Lindsay D.G. and Sprengelmeyer، نويسنده , , Reiner and Owens، نويسنده , , David G.C. and Stanfield، نويسنده , , Andrew C. and Hall، نويسنده , , Jeremy and Baig، نويسنده , , Ben J. and MacIntyre، نويسنده , , Donald J. and McKechanie، نويسنده , , Andrew and Johnstone، نويسنده , , Eve C.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
Abstract :
Background
s of antisocial populations have found that they show deficits in recognition of facial affect. Such deficits are also found in other populations with clinical conditions such as autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder.
ed to investigate the hypothesis that facial affect recognition in the Scottish prison population would differ from matched controls. In addition, we aimed to investigate any relationship between facial affect recognition deficits and offence history.
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le of serving convicted prisoners, drawn from a larger study, was assessed for ability to recognise facial affect. Other variables were also measured and a self-report offending history obtained.
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isoners were assessed in 11 prisons. Male prisoners were significantly worse than age, sex and IQ-matched controls at recognising negative facial emotions, specifically anger, fear, sadness and disgust. Within the sample of prisoners, deficits in fear recognition were associated with a history of previous prison sentences but not previous convictions. With respect to offending history, sex offenders were relatively better at recognising sadness and worse at recognising surprise than the other offenders. These relationships remain after controlling for IQ.
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sh convicted prisoners show deficits in recognising negative facial emotions in a pattern consistent with other antisocial populations. We also demonstrated a relationship between particular patterns of deficit and types of offending history not previously described.
Keywords :
Antisocial , Prisoner , social cognition , emotion , offender
Journal title :
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Journal title :
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry