ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2018
Does Affective Theory of Mind Contribute to Proactive Aggression in Boys with Conduct Problems and Psychopathic Tendencies?
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- Affective theory of mind impairments linked with callous-unemotional traits implicate cognitive control: A pre-registered double-blind randomized controlled trial with a dual-task paradigm.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Trial
- Why Do They Do It? The Psychology Behind Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
- Theory of Mind and physical bullying in preschool children: the role of peer rejection and gender differences.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2024Article
- Brain Anatomy in Boys with Conduct Disorder: Differences Among Aggression Subtypes.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Emotion recognition profiles in clusters of youth based on levels of callous-unemotional traits and reactive and proactive aggression.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Resting-state connectivity underlying cognitive control's association with perspective taking in callous-unemotional traits.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Pathways to antisocial behavior: a framework to improve diagnostics and tailor therapeutic interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Cold-Blooded and on Purpose: A Review of the Biology of Proactive Aggression.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Schizotypy and psychopathic tendencies interactively improve misattribution of affect in boys with conduct problems.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control.Cognition & emotionArticle
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Abstract
Adolescent psychopathic tendencies are associated with phenotypic increases in proactive aggression. However, the extent to which an understanding of others' affective mental states, or affective theory of mind (ToM), contributes to proactive aggression remains unknown. We examined how performance on a well-known test of affective ToM, based on cropped images of the eye region, contributes to reactive and proactive types of aggression in a mixed ethnicity sample of 80 incarcerated adolescent boys. A hierarchical regression model showed that affective ToM predicted proactive aggression over and above the influence of clinically rated psychopathic tendencies. Importantly, affective ToM was unrelated to reactive aggression. Our results suggest that being able to recognize others' affective mental states may be an important factor in aggressing against others for personal gain. These findings have implications for interventions designed to enhance ToM in youth with conduct problems.
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