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| Title |
What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy?
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00181 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Abigail A. Marsh |
| Abstract |
Psychopathy is a developmental disorder associated with core affective traits, such as low empathy, guilt, and remorse, and with antisocial and aggressive behaviors. Recent neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies of psychopathy in both institutionalized and community samples have begun to illuminate the basis of this condition, in particular the ways that psychopathy affects the experience and recognition of fear. In this review, I will consider how understanding emotional processes in psychopathy can shed light on the three questions central to the study of emotion: (1) Are emotions discrete, qualitatively distinct phenomena, or quantitatively varying phenomena best described in terms of dimensions like arousal and valence? (2) What are the brain structures involved in generating specific emotions like fear, if any? And (3) how do our own experiences of emotion pertain to our perceptions of and responses to others' emotion? I conclude that insights afforded by the study of psychopathy may provide better understanding of not only fundamental social phenomena like empathy and aggression, but of the basic emotional processes that motivate these behaviors. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 63 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 13 | 21% |
| United States | 10 | 16% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 3% |
| Italy | 2 | 3% |
| Ireland | 2 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 27 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 49 | 78% |
| Scientists | 11 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 222 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 207 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 36 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 35 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 15% |
| Researcher | 21 | 9% |
| Other | 13 | 6% |
| Other | 45 | 20% |
| Unknown | 39 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 111 | 50% |
| Neuroscience | 14 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 22 | 10% |
| Unknown | 45 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 November 2023.
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