Abstract

BERTONE, Matías Salvador; DIAZ-GRANADOS, Edith Aristizabal; VALLEJOS, Miguel  and  MUNIELLO, Jessica. Differences in social cognition between male prisoners with antisocial personality or psychotic disorder. int.j.psychol.res. [online]. 2017, vol.10, n.2, pp.16-25. ISSN 2011-2084.  https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.2903.

The objective of this work is to discriminate between different neurocognitive circuits involved in empathy, one of them linked to emotional processing and the other associated with cognitive function. This is evaluated through the use of neuropsychological tools (Hinting Task, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test and Cambridge Mind Reading Test) empathic cognition and empathic emotion. In this study, 57 male prisoners were divided into three groups: psychotic patients (20), antisocial patients (17), and a control group (20). Patients with psychosis were found to have significantly lower scores than the antisocial and control groups in a social reasoning test, but using tests of emotional recognition, we found that both psychotic patients and antisocial subjects scored significantly lower than the control group.

Keywords : Social cognition; psychosis; antisocial disorder; facial emotion recognition; theory of mind.

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