ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Cognitive Empathy in Subtypes of Antisocial Individuals.
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- Empathic Dimensions Influence Motor Resonance Magnitude During Transitive but Not Intransitive Action Observation: A Retrospective Investigation.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Cognitive and affective perspective taking amongst adolescent offenders with variants of callous-unemotional traits.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- The protective effects of cognitive empathy and emotional empathy on gambling disorder are mediated by risk aversion and responsible gambling attitude.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The dark side of personality functioning: associations between antisocial cognitions, personality functioning (AMPD), empathy and mentalisation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Empathy and Violence in Schizophrenia and Antisocial Personality Disorder.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Antisocial behavior is associated with reduced frontoparietal network efficiency in youth.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Pathways to antisocial behavior: a framework to improve diagnostics and tailor therapeutic interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Empathy deficit in male patients with schizophrenia and its relationships with impulsivity and premeditated violence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cognitive empathy allows individuals to recognize and infer how others think and feel in social situations and provides a foundation for the formation and maintenance of mutually constructive relationships. It may seem intuitive to assume that individuals who engage in antisocial behavior, who disregard the rights of others, might have problems with cognitive empathy. However, careful examination of the literature suggests that any dysfunction in cognitive empathy associated with antisociality varies by subtype of antisocial individual and is specific to subcomponents of cognitive empathy. In this review, we (1) briefly define subtypes of antisocial individuals ("psychopathic" vs. "antisocial-only"), (2) summarize specific components of cognitive empathy; (3) review existing literature examining cognitive empathy through questionnaires, behavioral tasks, and neuroimaging within different antisocial subtypes; and (4) discuss the limitations of the current research and potential future directions. Individuals in the psychopathic subtype fail to implicitly engage in cognitive empathy, and potentially lack insight into this issue reflected in no self-reported problems with cognitive empathy, but show an ability to engage in cognitive empathy when explicitly required. Individuals in the antisocial-only subtype appear able to engage in cognitive empathy, showing no differences on questionnaire or behavioral tasks that tap explicit cognitive empathy, but may display subtle difficulties accurately inferring (affective theory of mind) the emotions of others. We end the review by noting areas for future research, including the need to: (1) document the patterns of equifinality that exist across levels of analysis for these antisocial subtypes; (2) examine the temporality of empathy and antisociality development; (3) carefully consider and label subcomponents of cognitive empathy in research on antisocial behavior; and (4) investigate the intersection among environmental experiences, cognitive empathy, and antisocial behavior.
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