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Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder

According to the social-cognitive theory and the social-information-processing theory, individuals with conduct disorder, a persistent and repetitive pattern of problematic behavior, might have cognitive biases toward hostile facial expressions. However, according to the optimal stimulation/arousal...

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Autores principales: Kou, Hui, Luo, Wei, Li, Xue, Yang, Ye, Xiong, Min, Shao, Boyao, Xie, Qinhong, Bi, Taiyong
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9445197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36081455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.937754
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author Kou, Hui
Luo, Wei
Li, Xue
Yang, Ye
Xiong, Min
Shao, Boyao
Xie, Qinhong
Bi, Taiyong
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Luo, Wei
Li, Xue
Yang, Ye
Xiong, Min
Shao, Boyao
Xie, Qinhong
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description According to the social-cognitive theory and the social-information-processing theory, individuals with conduct disorder, a persistent and repetitive pattern of problematic behavior, might have cognitive biases toward hostile facial expressions. However, according to the optimal stimulation/arousal theory, the stimulation-seeking theory and the fearlessness theory, individuals with conduct disorder might have less fear and show less response to hostile or threatening facial expressions. To reconcile the discrepancy, we examined the cognitive biases including attentional processing and working memory processing to emotional faces among adolescents with conduct disorder. 35 male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder and 35 age-matched delinquents without conduct disorder completed a visual search task and a delayed-match-to-sample task to examine their attentional processing and working memory processing for sad, angry, happy, and fearful faces, respectively. It was found that conduct disordered individuals searched angry and fearful faces, rather than sad and happy faces, more slowly than individuals without conduct disorder. However, no difference in mnemonic processing for facial emotions was found between groups. The results indicated that male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder showed deficits in attentional orientation to hostile and threatening faces, supporting the optimal stimulation/arousal theory, the stimulation-seeking theory and the fearlessness theory, but not the social-cognitive theory.
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spelling pubmed-94451972022-09-07 Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder Kou, Hui Luo, Wei Li, Xue Yang, Ye Xiong, Min Shao, Boyao Xie, Qinhong Bi, Taiyong Front Psychiatry Psychiatry According to the social-cognitive theory and the social-information-processing theory, individuals with conduct disorder, a persistent and repetitive pattern of problematic behavior, might have cognitive biases toward hostile facial expressions. However, according to the optimal stimulation/arousal theory, the stimulation-seeking theory and the fearlessness theory, individuals with conduct disorder might have less fear and show less response to hostile or threatening facial expressions. To reconcile the discrepancy, we examined the cognitive biases including attentional processing and working memory processing to emotional faces among adolescents with conduct disorder. 35 male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder and 35 age-matched delinquents without conduct disorder completed a visual search task and a delayed-match-to-sample task to examine their attentional processing and working memory processing for sad, angry, happy, and fearful faces, respectively. It was found that conduct disordered individuals searched angry and fearful faces, rather than sad and happy faces, more slowly than individuals without conduct disorder. However, no difference in mnemonic processing for facial emotions was found between groups. The results indicated that male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder showed deficits in attentional orientation to hostile and threatening faces, supporting the optimal stimulation/arousal theory, the stimulation-seeking theory and the fearlessness theory, but not the social-cognitive theory. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9445197/ /pubmed/36081455 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.937754 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kou, Luo, Li, Yang, Xiong, Shao, Xie and Bi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Kou, Hui
Luo, Wei
Li, Xue
Yang, Ye
Xiong, Min
Shao, Boyao
Xie, Qinhong
Bi, Taiyong
Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder
title Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder
title_full Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder
title_fullStr Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder
title_full_unstemmed Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder
title_short Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder
title_sort cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9445197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36081455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.937754
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