ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2022
Are Children High on Callous-Unemotional Traits Emotionally Blind? Testing Eye-Gaze Differences.
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- Emotion Recognition Deficits in Children and Adolescents with Psychopathic Traits: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Do Children with High Callous-Unemotional Traits Have Attentional Deficits to Emotional Stimuli? Evidence from a Multi-Method and Multi-Informant Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Callous-Unemotional Traits and Their Association with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from Gaze Behaviour During Emotion Recognition.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Emotion Recognition in a Community Sample of Children: Unpacking the Contribution of Psychopathic Traits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Decoding emotions: The unique and combined roles of callous-unemotional traits and anxiety in facial emotion recognition in children.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Parent-Child Eye Gaze Congruency to Emotional Expressions Mediated by Child Aesthetic Sensitivity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Social Affiliation and Attention to Angry Faces in Children: Evidence for the Contributing Role of Parental Sensory Processing Sensitivity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Deficits in emotion recognition and processing in children with high callous-unemotional traits: the role of the MAOA gene.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Parasympathetic Nervous System Functioning Moderates the Associations between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Emotion Understanding Difficulties in Late Childhood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Facial Affect Sensitivity Training for Young Children with Emerging CU Traits: An Experimental Therapeutics Approach.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
- Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12-to 20-month old infants.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
Callous-unemotional traits have been associated with difficulties in identifying and responding to others' emotions. To inform this line of research, the current study investigated the eye gaze behavior of children (n = 59; mean-age = 6.35) with varying levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits with the use of eye-tracker methodology, as well as their ability to accurately identify emotional expressions. Participating children were selected from a large screening sample (N = 1283). Main findings supported a reduced fixation rate to the eye-region and an increased fixation in the mouth area of emotional faces among children high on callous-unemotional traits (HCU), irrespective of emotion expressed (i.e., fear, sad, angry and happy) and age of individuals portrayed in images (adult versus child faces). Further, findings suggested that HCU children were less likely to accurately identify facial emotional expressions, which might be due to the identified attentional neglect to the eye region of emotional faces. Current findings support the importance of early prevention and intervention programs that can enhance the emotional development and social adjustment of HCU children.
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