ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2016
Fairness decisions in response to emotions: a functional MRI study among criminal justice-involved boys with conduct disorder.
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- Using physiological biomarkers in forensic psychiatry: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Moral Thinking and Empathy in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Conduct Problems: A Narrative Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Review
- Improving Our Understanding of Impaired Social Problem-Solving in Children and Adolescents with Conduct Problems: Implications for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Anomalous Moral Intuitions in Juvenile Offenders with Psychopathic Traits.Journal of research in personality · 2020Article
- Cerebral responses to self-initiated action during social interactions.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Investigating social-contextual determinants of cooperation in incarcerated violent offenders.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Adolescent Externalizing Problems: Contributions of Community Crime Exposure and Neural Function During Emotion Introspection in Mexican-Origin Youth.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2018Article
- Comparing Different Approaches for Subtyping Children with Conduct Problems: Callous-Unemotional Traits Only Versus the Multidimensional Psychopathy Construct.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2018Article
- Differential Fairness Decisions and Brain Responses After Expressed Emotions of Others in Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
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Abstract
Research suggests that individuals with conduct disorder (CD) are marked by social impairments, such as difficulties in processing the affective reactions of others. Little is known, though, about how they make decisions during social interactions in response to emotional expressions of others. In this study, we therefore investigated the neural mechanisms underlying fairness decisions in response to communicated emotions of others in aggressive, criminal justice-involved boys with CD (N = 32) compared with typically developing (TD) boys (N = 33), aged 15-19 years. Participants received written emotional responses (angry, disappointed or happy) from peers in response to a previous offer and then had to make fairness decisions in a version of the Dictator Game. Behavioral results showed that CD boys did not make differential fairness decisions in response to the emotions, whereas the TD boys did show a differentiation and also responded more unfair to happy reactions than the CD boys. Neuroimaging results revealed that when receiving happy vs disappointed and angry reactions, the CD boys showed less activation than the TD boys in the temporoparietal junction and supramarginal gyrus, regions involved in perspective taking and attention. These results suggest that boys with CD have difficulties with processing explicit emotional cues from others on behavioral and neural levels.
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