Social information processing in violent offenders with antisocial personality disorder: phenotypes, deficits and new interventions

正确处理和充分回应语言和非语言信息的能力对于成功的社会功能至关重要。一些著名的理论方法声称，在识别或适当的解释社会信息的缺陷，可以有助于发展的越轨攻击行为。因此，大量的研究提供了证据，在各种反社会人群的情感线索的处理障碍。然而，目前还不清楚这些障碍是否是特定的情感显示（如恐惧的面孔），特定的信息处理阶段和/或感官形式。此外，对潜在的介质以及这些识别缺陷如何转化为实际行为知之甚少。最后，实际上对这些缺陷的可修改性一无所知。因此，计划中的项目的主要目标如下：（一）对大量囚犯的社会信息处理缺陷进行系统调查（暴力犯罪者和欺诈者），他们与某些特质变量的关系（例如精神变态）和攻击性行为（横截面研究I）;（ii）仔细评估我们最近为治疗暴力罪犯的情绪认知障碍和相关攻击行为而开发的训练方法（纵向研究II）。

The ability to process correctly and respond adequately to verbal and non-verbal information is vital for successful social functioning. Some prominent theoretical approaches claim that deficits in recognition or appropriate interpretation of social information can contribute to the development of deviant aggressive behavior. Accordingly, numerous studies provide evidence for impairments in the processing of affective cues in various antisocial populations. However, it remains unclear whether these impairments are specific for certain affective displays (e.g. fearful faces), particular information processing stages and/or sensory modalities. Further, less is known about potential mediators and how these recognition deficits translate into actual behavior. Finally, virtually nothing is known about the modifiability of these deficits. Thus, the main goals of the planned project are the following: (i) a systematic investigation of social information processing deficits in a large sample of inmates (violent offenders and fraudsters), their relationship to certain trait variables (e.g. psychopathy) and aggressive behavior (cross-sectional study I); (ii) a careful evaluation of our recently developed training approach for the treatment of emotional recognition impairments and associated aggressive behavior in violent offenders (longitudinal study II).