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Exploring the Use of Isolated Expressions and Film Clips to Evaluate Emotion Recognition by People with Traumatic Brain Injury
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Empathic competencies in violent offenders.

Eva-Maria Seidel1, Daniela Melitta Pfabigan, Katinka Keckeis

  • 1Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

Psychiatry Research
|September 17, 2013
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Violent offenders exhibit deficits primarily in emotion recognition, a core component of empathy. Other empathy aspects remain largely unaffected, suggesting targeted therapeutic approaches for violent crime reduction.

Keywords:
AffectCriminalsSkin conductanceSocialViolence

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Criminology

Background:

  • Violent offending is frequently linked to reduced empathy.
  • Experimental data on empathy deficits in offenders is limited.
  • Understanding specific empathy deficits is crucial for interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate general versus specific empathy deficits in violent offenders.
  • To assess emotion recognition, perspective taking, and affective responsiveness.
  • To examine physiological responses using skin conductance response (SCR).

Main Methods:

  • Compared 30 male violent offenders with 30 healthy male controls.
  • Assessed three empathy components: emotion recognition, perspective taking, affective responsiveness.
  • Measured skin conductance response (SCR) during empathy tasks.

Main Results:

  • Violent offenders showed significantly lower accuracy in emotion recognition.
  • Higher assault history correlated with poorer perspective taking for anger.
  • Reduced SCR observed in offenders for fear and disgust stimuli.
  • Increased psychopathy scores linked to diminished affective responsiveness.

Conclusions:

  • Violent offenders exhibit specific deficits mainly in emotion recognition, not general empathy.
  • This finding supports the potential for targeted therapeutic interventions for empathy components.
  • Divergent impacts on empathy subcomponents offer new avenues for treating violent offending.