PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Superficial Charm, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Reduced Affect Display
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Emotional brain areas activated by some versions of moral dilemmas but not others. Seeing a victim exhibit distress evokes a negative emotional response in ourselves. May be the route of our identification of one groups of acts that are "morally wrong" (because they result in harm to others) Psychopaths fail to show the same emotional brain responses, or arousal responses to cues when others are showing fear and distress as compared to criminal controls. Behavioral level: antisocial personality disorder (dsm) vs psychopathy (hare"s checklist) Apd (dsm): disregard for and violation of the rights of others. Trained clinicians interview individuals and score on 20 items, each ranging from 0-2. Evidence of differences in individuals with psychopathy in the responsiveness of certain brain areas to emotional material. Psychopaths and control participants shown pictures of neutral, threatening, and distress-inducing pictures. Rated pictures for pleasantness, and had skin conductance measures taken. The autism as a problem in understanding other minds.
