Talia Alessandro, Duschinsky Robbie, Mazzarella Diana, Hauschild Sophie, Taubner Svenja
Institute for Psychosocial Prevention, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Sep 23;12:710011. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.710011. eCollection 2021.
Fonagy and colleagues have recently proposed that deficits in the capacity for epistemic trust (i. e., the expectation that interpersonal communication is relevant to the addressee) are fundamental to psychopathology. In this paper, we consider the implications of this hypothesis for understanding the role of aggression in conduct disorder and conduct problems more generally. Our main proposal is to view conduct problems not only as reflecting dysregulation, but as an adaptation that allows communication with others who are (or are perceived to be) unreliable. Our formulation hinges on two propositions. The first one is to view aggression as a modality of communication adapted to scenarios in which the communicator expects the audience to have low epistemic trust in the communicator. The second idea is to conceptualize the failed "unlearning of aggression" as reflecting a lack of interest in maintaining one's reputation as a communicator, which in turn stems from a lack of epistemic trust in other communicators. In this paper, we discuss these ideas and examine how they may account for the developmental pathways that lead young people to develop conduct problems.
费纳吉及其同事最近提出，认知信任能力（即人际沟通与收件人相关的预期）的缺陷是精神病理学的根本所在。在本文中，我们探讨这一假设对于更全面理解攻击行为在品行障碍及品行问题中作用的意义。我们的主要观点是，品行问题不仅反映了调节障碍，而且是一种适应方式，使个体能够与那些被认为不可靠的人进行沟通。我们的阐述基于两个命题。第一个命题是，将攻击行为视为一种沟通方式，适用于沟通者预期受众对其认知信任度较低的情境。第二个观点是，将未能“摒弃攻击行为”概念化为反映出对维护自身作为沟通者声誉缺乏兴趣，而这又源于对其他沟通者缺乏认知信任。在本文中，我们将讨论这些观点，并审视它们如何解释导致年轻人出现品行问题的发展路径。
