Trial reportExperimental brain research2013
When a smile becomes a fist: the perception of facial and bodily expressions of emotion in violent offenders.
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- Validation of the Emotionally Congruent and Incongruent Face-Body Static Set (ECIFBSS).Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Attentional Bias of Individuals with Social Anxiety towards Facial and Somatic Emotional Cues in a Holistic Manner.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Recognition of Facial Expressions Under Surgical Masks: The Primacy of Anger.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- On the Practical Use of Immersive Virtual Reality for Rehabilitation of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators in Prison.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Recognizing emotions in bodies: Vagus nerve stimulation enhances recognition of anger while impairing sadness.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Attentional variability and avoidance of hostile stimuli decrease aggression in Chinese male juvenile delinquents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- Out of Context, Beyond the Face: Neuroanatomical Pathways of Emotional Face-Body Language Integration in Adolescent Offenders.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- How face blurring affects body language processing of static gestures in women and men.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
- Offenders become the victim in virtual reality: impact of changing perspective in domestic violence.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlates of Aggression in Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Effect Size Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Gender Differences in Processing Fearful and Angry Body Expressions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Review
- Anger provocation in violent offenders leads to emotion dysregulation.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- In your face: the biased judgement of fear-anger expressions in violent offenders.BMC psychology · 2017Article
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- When anger dominates the mind: Increased motor corticospinal excitability in the face of threat.Psychophysiology · 2016Article
- Men's perceptions of women's sexual interest: Effects of environmental context, sexual attitudes, and women's characteristics.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2016Article
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- Emotional expression recognition and attribution bias among sexual and violent offenders: a signal detection analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Anger fosters action. Fast responses in a motor task involving approach movements toward angry faces and bodies.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Previous reports have suggested an enhancement of facial expression recognition in women as compared to men. It has also been suggested that men versus women have a greater attentional bias towards angry cues. Research has shown that facial expression recognition impairments and attentional biases towards anger are enhanced in violent criminal male offenders. Bodily expressions of anger form a more direct physical threat as compared to facial expressions. In four experiments, we tested how 29 imprisoned aggressive male offenders perceive body expressions by other males. The performance of all participants in a matching-to-sample task dropped significantly when the distracting image showed an angry posture. Violent offenders misjudged fearful body movements as expressing anger significantly more often than the control group. When violent offenders were asked to categorize facial expressions and ignore the simultaneously presented congruent or incongruent posture, they performed worse than the control group, specifically, when a smile was combined with an aggressive posture. Finally, violent offenders showed a greater congruency effect than controls when viewing postures as part of an emotionally congruent social scene and did not perform above chance when categorizing a happy posture presented in a fight scene. The results suggest that violent offenders have difficulties in processing emotional incongruence when aggressive stimuli are involved and a possible bias towards aggressive body language.
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