Emotion Recognition Deficits in Children and Adolescents with Psychopathic Traits: A Systematic Review.

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Facultade de Psicoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Published: March 2024

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  • Children and adolescents with psychopathic traits have notable difficulties in recognizing emotions, especially distress-related emotions like fear.
  • The review highlights that these deficits occur across various types of emotional presentations and suggests that attention to specific emotional cues, such as the eyes, plays a crucial role.
  • It emphasizes the need for standardized research practices in this field to enhance the validity and reliability of findings on psychopathic traits and their impact on emotion recognition.

Article Abstract

Children and adolescents with psychopathic traits show deficits in emotion recognition, but there is no consensus as to the extent of their generalizability or about the variables that may be moderating the process. The present Systematic Review brings together the existing scientific corpus on the subject and attempts to answer these questions through an exhaustive review of the existing literature according to PRISMA 2020 statement. Results confirmed the existence of pervasive deficits in emotion recognition and, more specifically, on distress emotions (e.g., fear), a deficit that transcends all modalities of emotion presentation and all emotional stimuli used. Moreover, they supported the key role of attention to relevant areas that provide emotional cues (e.g., eye-region) and point out differences according to the presence of disruptive behavior and based on the psychopathy dimension examined. This evidence could advance the current knowledge on developmental models of psychopathic traits. Yet, homogenization of the conditions of research in this area should be prioritized to be able to draw more robust and generalizable conclusions.

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