Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents.
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 visu...
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| author | Larisa Morosan Deborah Badoud Alexandra Zaharia Tobias Brosch Stephan Eliez Anthony Bateman Patrick Heller Martin Debbané |
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| description | 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.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.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.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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-100fd8dda41646f48e3688a9860820d52022-12-22T00:40:42ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01121e017064610.1371/journal.pone.0170646Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents.Larisa MorosanDeborah BadoudAlexandra ZahariaTobias BroschStephan EliezAnthony BatemanPatrick HellerMartin DebbanéPrevious 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.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.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.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.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5266284?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Larisa Morosan Deborah Badoud Alexandra Zaharia Tobias Brosch Stephan Eliez Anthony Bateman Patrick Heller Martin Debbané Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents. PLoS ONE |
| title | Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents. |
| title_full | Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents. |
| title_fullStr | Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents. |
| title_short | Emotion Recognition and Perspective Taking: A Comparison between Typical and Incarcerated Male Adolescents. |
| title_sort | emotion recognition and perspective taking a comparison between typical and incarcerated male adolescents |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5266284?pdf=render |
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