Richell R A, Mitchell D G V, Newman C, Leonard A, Baron-Cohen S, Blair R J R
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University College, London, UK.
Neuropsychologia. 2003;41(5):523-6. doi: 10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00175-6.
There have been suggestions that Theory of Mind (ToM) impairment might lead to aggressive behaviour and psychopathy. Psychopathic and matched non-psychopathic individuals, as defined by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist [The Hare Psychopath Checklist-Revised, 1991] completed the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' ToM Test [Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1997;38:813]. This test requires the self-paced identification of mental states from photographs of the eye region alone. Results indicated that the psychopathic individuals did not present with any generalised impairment in ToM. The data are discussed with reference to the putative neural system mediating performance on this task and models of psychopathy.
有人提出,心理理论(ToM)缺陷可能会导致攻击性行为和精神变态。根据《哈雷精神病态检查表》(《哈雷精神病态检查表修订版》,1991年)定义的精神病态个体和匹配的非精神病态个体完成了“从眼睛中读取心理”的心理理论测试(《儿童心理学与精神病学杂志》,1997年;38:813)。该测试仅要求根据眼部区域的照片自主识别心理状态。结果表明,精神病态个体在心理理论方面没有表现出任何普遍的缺陷。结合假定的介导该任务表现的神经系统和精神变态模型对数据进行了讨论。