School of Psychology.
Emotion. 2020 Sep;20(6):951-964. doi: 10.1037/emo0000601. Epub 2019 Apr 4.
Emotional stimuli are typically prioritized in competition for attention in healthy individuals. In contrast, there is evidence that individuals high in psychopathic traits fail to similarly prioritize emotional stimuli. With aberrant attention to emotional stimuli implicated in the development and maintenance of other psychopathologies, attentional insensitivity to emotional stimuli may also be important in the callous-unemotional responding seen in psychopathy. This study assessed emotional attention in association with psychopathic traits in a community sample ( = 121) using two commonly used emotional attention tasks-the dot probe and emotion-induced blindness tasks. Psychopathic personality traits were examined in association with two attention domains where emotional attention effects are reliably found: early perceptual competition and competition for spatial attention. Participants high in interpersonal-affective traits of psychopathy (boldness or meanness) exhibited emotional attention deficits in both domains when impulsive-antisocial traits were also high. These findings are discussed in the context of the inconsistent literature on attention to emotional stimuli in psychopathy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
在健康个体中，情绪刺激通常优先于注意力竞争。相比之下，有证据表明，高精神病特质的个体无法类似地优先处理情绪刺激。由于对情绪刺激的注意力异常与其他精神病学的发展和维持有关，因此对情绪刺激的注意力不敏感也可能与精神病中冷酷无情的反应有关。本研究使用两种常用的情绪注意任务（点探测和情绪诱导盲任务），在一个社区样本（n=121）中评估了与精神病特质相关的情绪注意。在情绪注意效应可靠发现的两个注意领域中，检验了精神病人格特质：早期感知竞争和空间注意竞争。当冲动-反社会特质也较高时，具有精神病人际情感特质（大胆或卑鄙）的参与者在这两个领域都表现出情绪注意缺陷。这些发现是在关于精神病中对情绪刺激的注意力不一致的文献背景下讨论的。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
