Love, eye contact and the developmental origins of empathy v. psychopathy

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 191-196

  Dadds, Mark R ^a,b   Allen, Jennifer L ^a   Oliver, Bonamy R ^a   Faulkner, Nathan ^a   Legge, Katherine ^a   Moul, Caroline ^a   Woolgar, Matthew ^a   Scott, Stephen ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMPATHY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LOVE; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOPATHY;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONDUCT DISORDER; EMPATHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857731395     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085720     Document Type: Article

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