Verbal, facial and autonomic responses to empathy-eliciting film clips by disruptive male adolescents with high versus low callous-unemotional traits

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-223

  De Wied, Minet ^a   Van Boxtel, Anton ^b   Matthys, Walter ^c   Meeus, Wim ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Callous unemotional traits; Disruptive behavior disorders; Empathy; Facial EMG

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84858417224     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-011-9557-8     Document Type: Article

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