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Psychopathy, attention and emotion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2008

R. J. R. Blair  and
D. G. V. Mitchell
R. J. R. Blair*
Affiliation:
Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
D. G. V. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, Canada
*
*Address for correspondence: Dr R. J. R. Blair, Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 15k North Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. (Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

Psychopathy is a developmental disorder marked by emotional hypo-responsiveness and an increased risk for antisocial behavior. Influential attention-based accounts of psychopathy have long been made; however, these accounts have made relatively little reference to general models of attention in healthy individuals. This review has three aims: (1) to summarize current cognitive neuroscience data on differing attentional systems; (2) to examine the functional integrity of these attentional systems in individuals with psychopathy; and (3) to consider the implications of these data for attention and emotion dysfunction accounts of psychopathy.

Keywords

Antisocial behaviourbiased competition modelcallous-unemotional traitsemotional attentionpsychopathy
Type
Invited Review
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , April 2009 , pp. 543 - 555
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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States

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