Emotional content analysis among psychopathic individuals during emotional induction by IAPS pictures

Background Emotional processes among psychopathic individuals have been consistently investigated. Although content analysis is interesting for evaluating emotional characteristics, few data exist concerning Psychopath’s speech following affective and neutral images.
 Method Population included male forensic inpatients (n=47) from Security Hospital. The were divided into: “Psychopaths” (n=24, PCL-R total score >25), “Intermediates” (n=12, 15 to 24.9) “Non-psychopaths” (n=11, <14.9). TROPES analyses EMOTAIX scenario tools examined the narrative’s characteristics. We tested hypothesis that psychopaths report fewer words on all images, particularly negative-valence Results Our results whole do not support this but suggested rather a specific discordance in verbal treatment (exclusively interpersonal factor) terms of subjective evaluation. Moreover, factor was positively correlated with number self-referring pronouns (“I”, me) setting whereas Social Deviance action verbs.
 Conclusion Speech outputs present specificities setting. are congruent notion psychopathy combines both functionality subtle impairment.