Fear and Loathing in Psychopaths: a Meta-analytic Investigation of the Facial Affect Recognition Deficit

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. XX No. X, Month XXXX xx-xx DOI: 10.1177/0093854811404120 © 2011 International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology AUTHORS’ NOTE: We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Shannon Johnson, Dr. Mary Ann Campbell, and Dr. Simon Sherry in the preparation of this manuscript. We would like to thank the authors of the collected studies for providing data and details about their respective works. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kevin Wilson, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 1V7; e-mail: [email protected]. FEAR AND LOATHING IN PSYCHOPATHS: A META-ANALYTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE FACIAL AFFECT RECOGNITION DEFICIT