Blair K S, Richell R A, Mitchell D G V, Leonard A, Morton J, Blair R J R
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Biol Psychol. 2006 Aug;73(2):114-23. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.12.006. Epub 2006 Mar 29.
Previous work has indicated dysfunctional affect-language interactions in individuals with psychopathy through use of the lexical decision task. However, it has been uncertain as to whether these deficits actually reflect impaired affect-language interactions or a more fundamental deficit in general semantic processing. In this study, we examined affective priming and semantic priming (dependent measures were reaction times and error rates) in individuals with psychopathy and comparison individuals, classified according to the psychopathy checklist revised (PCL-R) [Hare, R.D., 1991. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Multi-Health Systems, Toronto, Ont] Individuals with psychopathy showed significantly less affective priming relative to comparison individuals. In contrast, the two groups showed comparable levels of semantic priming. The results are discussed with reference to current models of psychopathy.
先前的研究通过词汇判断任务表明，患有精神病态的个体存在情感与语言交互功能障碍。然而，这些缺陷是否真的反映了情感与语言交互受损，还是更根本的一般语义加工缺陷，目前尚不确定。在本研究中，我们对根据修订版精神病态量表（PCL-R）[黑尔，R.D.，1991年。《黑尔精神病态量表修订版》。多健康系统公司，安大略省多伦多]分类的患有精神病态的个体和对照个体进行了情感启动和语义启动研究（因变量为反应时间和错误率）。与对照个体相比，患有精神病态的个体表现出明显更少的情感启动。相比之下，两组的语义启动水平相当。我们将根据当前的精神病态模型对结果进行讨论。
