Deficits in facial expression recognition in male adolescents with early-onset or adolescence-onset conduct disorder

• Published in: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 627 - 636
• Main Authors: Fairchild, Graeme, Van Goozen, Stephanie H.M., Calder, Andrew J., Stollery, Sarah J., Goodyer, Ian M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2009; Wiley-Blackwell; Blackwell
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Age of Onset; Anger; Antisocial Behavior; Antisocial behaviour; Antisocial personality disorder; Behavior disorders; Behavior Problems; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child psychology; Classification; conduct disorder; Conduct Disorder - psychology; Control Groups; Early onset; Emotion recognition; Emotional Response; Facial Expression; Facial expressions; Fear; Humans; Male; Males; Medical sciences; Mental Disorders; Nonverbal Communication; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Psychiatry; Psychological Patterns; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychopathy; Recognition (Psychology); Sadness; Social behavior disorders. Criminal behavior. Delinquency; Social Perception; Social psychology; Teenagers; Human; Affect affectivity; Antisocial behavior; Emotion recognition; psychopathy; Conduct disorder; Male; Emotion emotionality; Behavioral disorder; Psychopathia; Adolescent; antisocial behaviour; Face; Social behavior disorder; Facial expression; Recognition

Background:  We examined whether conduct disorder (CD) is associated with deficits in facial expression recognition and, if so, whether these deficits are specific to the early‐onset form of CD, which emerges in childhood. The findings could potentially inform the developmental taxonomic theory of a...