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Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control.
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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
- Further evidence for the cognitive disruption and self-talk frequency hypothesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Adults with more severe psychopathy in the community show increased social discounting.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Cognitive Control Difficulties Differentiate Callous-Unemotional Traits from Conduct Problems: A Pre-Registered Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial Analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Cognitive and affective perspective taking amongst adolescent offenders with variants of callous-unemotional traits.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Executive function and underlying brain network distinctions for callous-unemotional traits and conduct problems in adolescents.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Efficiency of Heterogenous Functional Connectomes Explains Variance in Callous-Unemotional Traits After Computational Lesioning of Cortical Midline and Salience Regions.Brain connectivity · 2023Article
- Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Prosocial Decision Making in Callous-Unemotional Traits.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2023Article
- Resting-state connectivity underlying cognitive control's association with perspective taking in callous-unemotional traits.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Associated functional network connectivity between callous-unemotionality and cognitive and affective empathy.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
Affective theory of mind (aToM) impairments associated with the youth antisocial phenotype callous-unemotional (CU) traits predict antisocial behaviour above CU traits alone. Importantly, CU traits associate with decrements in complex but not basic aToM. aToM is modulated by cognitive control and CU traits associate with cognitive control impairments; thus, cognitive control is a plausible mechanism underlying aToM impairments in CU traits. Because cognitive control is dependent on the availability of cognitive resources, youth with CU traits may have difficulty with allocating cognitive resources under greater demands that impact complex aToM. To test this, 81 participants (ages 12-14, Female = 51.8%, Male = 48.2%) were recruited to complete a behavioural paradigm that involved an initial aToM task with complex and basic emotions followed by placing additional demands on cognitive control and a final repeat of the same aToM task. Results indicate adolescents higher in CU traits had intact basic aToM but less accuracy in complex aToM that worsened after taxing cognitive control; and this load only required a short duration to account for ToM decrements (200 ms [range 150-1600 ms]). These results demonstrate CU traits association with cognitive control limitations that impact complex aToM. This may partially explain antisocial behaviour associated with CU traits.
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