Callousness and affective face processing in adults: Behavioral and brain-potential indicators.

Brislin, Sarah J.; Yancey, James R.; Perkins, Emily R.; Palumbo, Isabella M.; Drislane, Laura E.; Salekin, Randall T.; Fanti, Kostas A.; Kimonis, Eva R.; Frick, Paul J.; Blair, James; Patrick, Christopher J.

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“…However, in preschool‐aged children, P2 amplitudes are greater when viewing “antisocial” actions than “prosocial” actions (Meidenbauer et al, ). In adult populations, reduced P2 to negative stimuli (e.g., fearful or distressed faces) are associated with CU traits (Brislin et al, ) or “emotional desensitization” (Stockdale et al, ). Taken together, findings from this study imply that, after engaging with the empathy game, children's attentional resources are more easily mobilized when encountering antisocial or harming actions.…”

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“…In typically developing preschool aged children, P200 amplitudes are greater for “antisocial” than for “prosocial” actions (Meidenbauer, Cowell, & Decety, ). In adult population, conditions such as phobic (Sarlo & Munafò, ), high‐level of callous‐unemotional (CU) traits (Brislin et al, ) and “emotional desensitization” resulting from exposure to violence (Stockdale, Morrison, Kmiecik, Garbarino, & Silton, ) are known to lead to reduced P200 in response to distress cues (e.g., expression of fear), indicating that sustained attention and processing is precluded. LPPs are known to index top‐down cognitive reappraisal and regulation of emotion arousal (Dennis & Hajcak, ; Hajcak & Dennis, ; Hajcak, Weinberg, MacNamara, & Foti, ).…”

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See, Touch, and Feel: Enhancing Young Children's Empathy Learning Through a Tablet Game

Kim

2019

Mind Brain and Education

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Ongoing research is providing new insights into the biological rudiments of empathy and its neurobiological underpinnings. There is also growing awareness that tablet technology, when used educationally and ethically, can aid adolescents and young‐adults' empathic learning. However, there has been little attempt globally to translate this new knowledge into the learning and teaching of empathy in early years education. This small‐scale study aimed at enhancing 3–6‐year‐olds' empathy by designing a tablet game and evaluating its developmental impact by combining teachers' observation with pre‐electroencephalogram (EEG) and post‐EEG. Children in one Australian preschool, were invited to (1) attend to and perceive emotionally salient events in a story, (2) actively share the emotions of the characters identified, and (3) take others' perspectives, reasoning why a given emotion arises within the context. Repeated measures analysis of both EEG and observation data indicate that interacting with the tablet game enhanced participating preschoolers' empathic learning.

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See, Touch, and Feel: Enhancing Young Children's Empathy Learning Through a Tablet Game

Kim

2019

Mind Brain and Education

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“…Emo, emotional, Pos, positive, Neg, negative, and Neu, neutral. The supplementary references(Rothemund et al, 2012;Brislin et al, 2018 andBrennan et al, 2018), were not added due to characteristics of clinical measurement (externalizing scale) and absence of visual emotional stimuli.…”

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Abnormalities of the late positive potential during emotional processing in individuals with psychopathic traits: a meta-analysis

Vallet

Hone‐Blanchet

2019

Psychol. Med.

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BackgroundIndividuals with psychopathic traits display deficits in emotional processing. A key event-related potential component involved in emotional processing is the late positive potential (LPP). In healthy controls, LPP amplitude is greater in response to negative stimuli than to positive or neutral stimuli. In the current study, we aimed to compare LPP amplitudes between individuals with psychopathic traits and control subjects when presented with negative, positive or neutral stimuli. We hypothesized that LPP amplitude evoked by emotional stimuli would be reduced in individuals with psychopathic traits compared to healthy controls.MethodsAfter a systematic review of the literature, we conducted a meta-analysis to compare LPP amplitude elicited by emotional stimuli in individuals with psychopathic traits and healthy controls.ResultsIndividuals with psychopathic traits showed significantly reduced LPP amplitude evoked by negative stimuli (mean effect size = −0.47; 95% CI −0.60 to −0.33; p < 0.005) compared to healthy controls. No significant differences between groups were observed for the processing of positive (mean effect size = −0.15; 95% CI −0.42 to 0.12; p = 0.28) and neutral stimuli (mean effect size = −0.12; 95% CI 0.31 to 0.07; p = 0.21).ConclusionsMeasured by LPP amplitude, individuals with psychopathic traits displayed abnormalities in the processing of emotional stimuli with negative valence whereas processing of stimuli with positive and neutral valence was unchanged as compared with healthy controls.

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“…Future research in this area would benefit from using a welldesigned experimental paradigm with sufficient power to detect an effect. As indicated by previous research (Brislin et al, 2017;Cigna et al, 2017;Gillespie et al, 2015;Hastings et al, 2008), researchers may create sufficient task difficulty by using ambiguous or dynamic facial stimuli rather than prototypical expressions. Researchers should also consider whether the relationship between psychopathy, affect recognition, and facial expression intensity differs by emotion.…”

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Triarchic psychopathy and deficits in facial affect recognition

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Journal of Personality

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Callousness and affective face processing in adults: Behavioral and brain-potential indicators.

Cited by 58 publications

References 51 publications

See, Touch, and Feel: Enhancing Young Children's Empathy Learning Through a Tablet Game

See, Touch, and Feel: Enhancing Young Children's Empathy Learning Through a Tablet Game

Abnormalities of the late positive potential during emotional processing in individuals with psychopathic traits: a meta-analysis

Triarchic psychopathy and deficits in facial affect recognition

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