Blair R James R, Mitchell Derek G V, Richell Rebecca A, Kelly Steve, Leonard Alan, Newman Chris, Scott Sophie K
Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland; 20892-2670, USA.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2002 Nov;111(4):682-6. doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.111.4.682.
The processing of emotional expressions is fundamental for normal socialization and interaction. Reduced responsiveness to the expressions of sadness and fear has been implicated in the development of psychopathy (R. J. R. Blair, 1995). The current study investigates the ability of adult psychopathic individuals to process vocal affect. Psychopathic and nonpsychopathic adults, defined by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991), were presented with neutral words spoken with intonations conveying happiness, disgust, anger, sadness, and fear and were asked to identify the emotion of the speaker on the basis of prosody. The results indicated that psychopathic inmates were particularly impaired in the recognition of fearful vocal affect. These results are interpreted with reference to the low-fear and violence inhibition mechanism models of psychopathy.
情绪表达的处理对于正常的社交和互动至关重要。对悲伤和恐惧表达的反应性降低与精神病态的发展有关（R. J. R. 布莱尔，1995年）。当前的研究调查了成年精神病态个体处理声音情感的能力。根据《哈雷精神病态检查表修订版》（PCL-R；R. D. 哈雷，1991年）定义的精神病态和非精神病态成年人，被给予以传达快乐、厌恶、愤怒、悲伤和恐惧的语调说出的中性词，并被要求根据韵律识别说话者的情绪。结果表明，精神病态的囚犯在识别恐惧的声音情感方面特别受损。这些结果参照精神病态的低恐惧和暴力抑制机制模型进行了解释。
