Vocal Affect Recognition and Psychopathy: Converging Findings Across Traditional and Cluster Analytic Approaches to Assessing the Construct
Vocal Affect Recognition and Psychopathy: Converging Findings Across Traditional and Cluster Analytic Approaches to Assessing the Construct
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015372
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Kosson, David S.
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作者：
Bagley, Amy D.;Abramowitz, Carolyn S.;Kosson, David S.
据广泛报道，情绪处理缺陷是精神变态的核心。然而，以前很少有研究考察精神病患者的发声情感识别，而且这些研究受到显著的方法学限制。此外，先前的研究已经得出了关于精神病患者情感认知缺陷的特殊性的相互矛盾的发现。这项研究考察了107名男性囚犯在要求对情感线索进行孤立的韵律和语义分析的条件下的声音情感识别，并比较了通过声音情感识别的聚类分析确定的罪犯亚组。精神病患者在需要使用语义线索的条件下和需要使用韵律线索的条件下表现出声音情感识别缺陷。此外，与非精神病对照受试者相比，初级和继发性精神病患者在语义分析条件下表现出相对相似的情绪缺陷。这项研究表明，精神病患者的声音情感识别缺陷并不是由于以前研究的方法限制所致，并提供了初步证据，表明初级精神病患者和继发性精神病患者在声音情感识别方面表现出大致相似的缺陷。
Deficits in emotion processing have been widely reported to be central to psychopathy. However, few prior studies have examined vocal affect recognition in psychopaths, and these studies suffer from significant methodological limitations. Moreover, prior studies have yielded conflicting findings regarding the specificity of psychopaths' affect recognition deficits. This study examined vocal affect recognition in 107 male inmates under conditions requiring isolated prosodic vs. semantic analysis of affective cues and compared subgroups of offenders identified via cluster analysis on vocal affect recognition. Psychopaths demonstrated deficits in vocal affect recognition under conditions requiring use of semantic cues and conditions requiring use of prosodic cues. Moreover, both primary and secondary psychopaths exhibited relatively similar emotional deficits in the semantic analysis condition compared to nonpsychopathic control participants. This study demonstrates that psychopaths' vocal affect recognition deficits are not due to methodological limitations of previous studies and provides preliminary evidence that primary and secondary psychopaths exhibit generally similar deficits in vocal affect recognition.