Frodi A M, Lamb M E
Child Dev. 1980 Mar;51(1):238-41.
14 child abusers and a matched group of non-abusers watched videotapes of crying and smiling infants. Their psychophysiological responses were monitored throughout the session. After each videotape, the subjects described their emotional responses on a mood adjective checklist. The crying infant elicited heart-rate acceleration and increases in skin conductance and diastolic blood pressure from both groups, although the abusers experienced greater increases in heart rate and reported more aversion and less sympathy. Like other parents tested in this paradigm, the nonabusers responded to the smiling infant with no change in or declines in physiological activation. The abusers, however, responded to the smile and cry stimuli similarly.
14名虐待儿童者和一组与之匹配的非虐待者观看了哭闹和微笑婴儿的录像带。在整个过程中监测他们的心理生理反应。每段录像带播放后，受试者在情绪形容词清单上描述他们的情绪反应。哭闹的婴儿使两组受试者的心率加快、皮肤电导增加和舒张压升高，尽管虐待者的心率增加幅度更大，报告的厌恶感更多，同情心更少。与在这种范式中测试的其他父母一样，非虐待者对微笑的婴儿的生理激活没有变化或下降。然而，虐待者对微笑和哭闹刺激的反应相似。
