Assessing emotion sensitivity in female offenders with borderline personality symptoms: Results from a fear-potentiated startle paradigm

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 477-483

  Baskin Sommers, Arielle R ^a   Vitale, Jennifer E ^b   MacCoon, Donal ^c   Newman, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderline personality; Fear potentiated startle; Female offenders; Instructed fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BORDERLINE STATE; EMOTION; FEAR; FEAR POTENTIATED STARTLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPATHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STARTLE REFLEX; ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINALS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864751516     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026753     Document Type: Article

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