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  • Psychology
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Deficits in emotion recognition are linked to intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration.
  • Previous research relied on self-reports or limited psychometric tools.
  • Eye tracking is a validated method for assessing emotional decoding, but underutilized in IPV perpetrator research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between eye tracking fixation times and emotion decoding abilities in IPV perpetrators.
  • To control for confounding variables in this relationship.
  • To explore novel methods for assessing cognitive-emotional processes in IPV.

Main Methods:

  • An eye tracking emotion recognition task was administered to 52 IPV perpetrators.
  • Facial regions were designated as areas of interest (AOI) for gaze fixation measurement.
  • An ad hoc emotional decoding test and existing self-reports were used for comparison.

Main Results:

  • Increased total gaze fixation time on facial AOIs was associated with improved emotional decoding scores.
  • Fixation times accounted for 20% of the variance in emotional decoding performance.
  • The developed ad hoc test demonstrated good reliability and correlation with established tools.

Conclusions:

  • Eye movement signals are crucial for understanding attentional processes in emotion recognition among IPV perpetrators.
  • Integrating eye tracking can refine assessments and tailor therapeutic interventions for IPV.
  • This pilot study validates eye tracking as a valuable tool in forensic psychology research.