Investigating emotional body posture recognition in adolescents with Conduct Disorder using eye-tracking methods
Investigating emotional body posture recognition in adolescents with Conduct Disorder using eye-tracking methods
Adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) show deficits in recognizing facial expressions of emotion, but it is not known whether these difficulties extend to other social cues, such as emotional body postures. Moreover, in the absence of eye- tracking data, it is not known whether such deficits, if present, are due to a failure to attend to emotionally informative regions of the body. Male and female adolescents with CD and varying levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits (n = 45) and age- and sex-matched typically-developing controls (n = 51) categorized static and dynamic emotional body postures. The emotion categorization task was paired with eye-tracking methods to investigate relationships between fixation behavior and recognition performance. Having CD was associated with impaired recognition of static and dynamic body postures and atypical fixation behavior. Furthermore, males were less likely to fixate emotionally-informative regions of the body than females. While we found no effects of CU traits on body posture recognition, the effects of CU traits on fixation behavior varied according to CD status and sex, with CD males with lower levels of CU traits showing the most atypical fixation behavior. Critically, atypical fixation behavior did not explain the body posture recognition deficits observed in CD. Our findings suggest that CD-related impairments in recognition of body postures of emotion are not due to attentional issues. Training programmes designed to ameliorate the emotion recognition difficulties associated with CD may need to incorporate a body posture component.
Body posture, Callous-unemotional traits, Conduct disorder, Emotion recognition, Eye tracking
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Martin-Key, Nayra A.
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Graf, Erich
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Adams, Wendy
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Fairchild, Graeme
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July 2021
Martin-Key, Nayra A.
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Graf, Erich
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Adams, Wendy
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Fairchild, Graeme
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Martin-Key, Nayra A., Graf, Erich, Adams, Wendy and Fairchild, Graeme
(2021)
Investigating emotional body posture recognition in adolescents with Conduct Disorder using eye-tracking methods.
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49 (7), .
(doi:10.1007/s10802-021-00784-2).
Abstract
Adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) show deficits in recognizing facial expressions of emotion, but it is not known whether these difficulties extend to other social cues, such as emotional body postures. Moreover, in the absence of eye- tracking data, it is not known whether such deficits, if present, are due to a failure to attend to emotionally informative regions of the body. Male and female adolescents with CD and varying levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits (n = 45) and age- and sex-matched typically-developing controls (n = 51) categorized static and dynamic emotional body postures. The emotion categorization task was paired with eye-tracking methods to investigate relationships between fixation behavior and recognition performance. Having CD was associated with impaired recognition of static and dynamic body postures and atypical fixation behavior. Furthermore, males were less likely to fixate emotionally-informative regions of the body than females. While we found no effects of CU traits on body posture recognition, the effects of CU traits on fixation behavior varied according to CD status and sex, with CD males with lower levels of CU traits showing the most atypical fixation behavior. Critically, atypical fixation behavior did not explain the body posture recognition deficits observed in CD. Our findings suggest that CD-related impairments in recognition of body postures of emotion are not due to attentional issues. Training programmes designed to ameliorate the emotion recognition difficulties associated with CD may need to incorporate a body posture component.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 February 2021
Published date: July 2021
Keywords:
Body posture, Callous-unemotional traits, Conduct disorder, Emotion recognition, Eye tracking
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/447533
ISSN: 2730-7174
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