ArticleHuman brain mapping2015
Socioemotional processing of morally-laden behavior and their consequences on others in forensic psychopaths.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Using physiological biomarkers in forensic psychiatry: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Psychopathy and medial frontal cortex: A systematic review reveals predominantly null relationships.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Functional neural correlates of psychopathy: a meta-analysis of MRI data.Translational psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Literature Review of Neuroimaging of Psychopathic Traits.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
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- Relationship between empathic tendencies and trait anxiety among individuals interested in folk dances.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Cortical structure in relation to empathy and psychopathy in 800 incarcerated men.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The impact of anxiety on affective and cognitive empathy.PloS one · 2025Article
- The effect of childhood trauma on moral cognition in patients with schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Introspective self-narrative modulates the neuronal response during the emphatic process: an event-related potentials (ERPs) study.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Morality, Risk-Taking and Psychopathic Tendencies: An Empirical Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Neural responses to morally laden interactions in female inmates with psychopathy.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
- Psychopathy is associated with fear-specific reductions in neural activity during affective perspective-taking.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Neurobiological correlates of violence perception in martial artists.Brain and behavior · 2019Article
- Psychopathy is associated with shifts in the organization of neural networks in a large incarcerated male sample.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- Convergent Neural Correlates of Empathy and Anxiety During Socioemotional Processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Moral Mentation: What Neurocognitive Studies of Psychopathy May Really Offer the Internalism/Externalism Debate.Journal of cognition and neuroethics · 2018Article
- Alexithymia as a Transdiagnostic Precursor to Empathy Abnormalities: The Functional Role of the Insula.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Review
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Abstract
A large body of evidence supports the view that psychopathy is associated with anomalous emotional processing, reduced guilt and empathy, which are important risk factors for criminal behaviors. However, the precise nature and specificity of this atypical emotional processing is not well understood, including its relation to moral judgment. To further our understanding of the pattern of neural response to perceiving and evaluating morally-laden behavior, this study included 155 criminal male offenders with various level of psychopathy, as assessed with the Psychopathy Check List-Revised. Participants were scanned while viewing short clips depicting interactions between two individuals resulting in either interpersonal harm or interpersonal assistance. After viewing each clip, they were asked to identify the emotions of the protagonists. Inmates with high levels of psychopathy were more accurate than controls in successfully identifying the emotion of the recipient of both helpful and harmful actions. Significant hemodynamic differences were detected in the posterior superior temporal sulcus, amygdala, insula, ventral striatum, and prefrontal cortex when individuals with high psychopathy viewed negative versus positive scenarios moral scenarios and when they evaluated the emotional responses of the protagonists. These findings suggest that socioemotional processing abnormalities in psychopathy may be somewhat more complicated than merely a general or specific emotional deficit. Rather, situation-specific evaluations of the mental states of others, in conjunction with sensitivity to the nature of the other (victim vs. perpetrator), modulate attention to emotion-related cues. Such atypical processing likely impacts moral decision-making and behavior in psychopaths.
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