Savitsky J C, Czyzewski D
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1978 Mar;6(1):89-96. doi: 10.1007/BF00915784.
Adolescent male offenders and nonoffenders were compared on two tasks designed to assess reactions to the nonverbal emotion expressions of others. It was found that the offender group was less accurate in labeling another's emotion states but that this difference was apparently a function of verbal intelligence. Further, the results of the second task, a task not related to verbal intelligence, indicated that the punitive decisions of both the offender and nonoffender groups were similarly affected by the actors' nonverbal emotions. These results wree discussed as indicating that much of the social insensitivity often ascribed to delinquents may simply be a result of impoverished verbal skills among this group. A deficit in verbal skills may preclude delinquents from adequately describing their perceptions of the emotional reactions of others and it may also necessitate a nonverbal, rather than verbal, reaction to others' emotions.
对青少年男性罪犯和非罪犯在两项旨在评估对他人非言语情感表达反应的任务上进行了比较。研究发现，罪犯群体在识别他人的情绪状态时准确性较低，但这种差异显然是言语智力的作用。此外，第二项任务（一项与言语智力无关的任务）的结果表明，罪犯组和非罪犯组的惩罚性决策同样受到行为者非言语情绪的影响。这些结果被讨论为表明，通常归因于青少年犯罪者的许多社会不敏感可能仅仅是该群体言语技能匮乏的结果。言语技能的缺陷可能使青少年犯罪者无法充分描述他们对他人情绪反应的感知，也可能使他们对他人的情绪做出非言语而非言语的反应。
