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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 3/2018

19-02-2018

Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs on an Affective Lexical Decision Task: Implications for the Affect Regulation Theory of Psychopathy

Auteurs: Jennifer Vitale, David S. Kosson, Zachary Resch, Joseph P. Newman

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment | Uitgave 3/2018

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Abstract

Evidence for performance deficits in psychopathic offenders on emotional processing tasks have been documented. However, studies that show performance improvements or elimination of anomalies under certain conditions are not consistent with a general insensitivity to emotion stimuli. The current study tests the hypothesis set forth by the Affect Regulation Theory (Penney and Kosson, manuscript submitted to Clinical Psychological Science) that psychopathic participants’ performance on an affective lexical decision task will reflect a speed-accuracy trade-off wherein accuracy on emotion-word trials correlates with response latency among psychopathic participants but not controls. Participants were 86 incarcerated male offenders divided into three groups using scores on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and DSM-IV criteria for ASPD (non-ASPD/non-psychopathic, ASPD/non-psychopathic; and ASPD + psychopathic). There was a significant Group x Response latency interaction for negative word trials, with greater accuracy associated with slower response times on negative word trials for ASPD + psychopathic individuals but not for the other groups. The implications of these results for hypotheses about emotional functioning in psychopathic offenders and for the recently proposed ART are discussed.
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Accuracy and response latency data from this lexical-decision task were previously presented in Lorenz and Newman (2002). However, the analyses for that study examined latency only for correct responses and did not address speed-accuracy relationships.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs on an Affective Lexical Decision Task: Implications for the Affect Regulation Theory of Psychopathy
Auteurs
Jennifer Vitale
David S. Kosson
Zachary Resch
Joseph P. Newman
Publicatiedatum
19-02-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment / Uitgave 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0882-2689
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-018-9652-z

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