Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers

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Autor(a) principal: Serafim,Antonio de Pádua
Data de Publicação: 2009
Outros Autores: Barros,Daniel Martins de, Valim,André, Gorenstein,Clarice
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (São Paulo. 1999. Online)
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Resumo: OBJECTIVE: To compare the emotional response and level of anxiety of psychopathic murderers, non-psychopathic murderers, and nonpsychopathic non-criminals. METHOD: 110 male individuals aged over 18 years were divided into three groups: psychopathic murderers (n = 38); non-psychopathic murderers (n = 37) serving sentences for murder convictions in Maximum Security Prisons in the State of Sao Paulo; and non-criminal, non-psychopathic individuals (n = 35) according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. The emotional response of subjects was assessed by heart rate variation and anxiety level (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) after viewing standardized pictures depicting pleasant, unpleasant and neutral content from the International Affective Picture System. RESULTS: Psychopathic murderers presented lower anxiety levels and smaller heart rate variations when exposed to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli than nonpsychopathic murderers or non-psychopathic non-criminals. The results also demonstrated that the higher the score for factor 1 on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, the lower the heart rate variation and anxiety level. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that psychopathic murderers do not present variation in emotional response to different visual stimuli. Although the non-psychopathic murderers had committed the same type of crime as the psychopathic murderers, the former tended to respond with a higher level of anxiety and heart rate variation.
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spelling Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderersMultiple personality disorderHeart rateAnxietyMurderViolenceOBJECTIVE: To compare the emotional response and level of anxiety of psychopathic murderers, non-psychopathic murderers, and nonpsychopathic non-criminals. METHOD: 110 male individuals aged over 18 years were divided into three groups: psychopathic murderers (n = 38); non-psychopathic murderers (n = 37) serving sentences for murder convictions in Maximum Security Prisons in the State of Sao Paulo; and non-criminal, non-psychopathic individuals (n = 35) according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. The emotional response of subjects was assessed by heart rate variation and anxiety level (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) after viewing standardized pictures depicting pleasant, unpleasant and neutral content from the International Affective Picture System. RESULTS: Psychopathic murderers presented lower anxiety levels and smaller heart rate variations when exposed to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli than nonpsychopathic murderers or non-psychopathic non-criminals. The results also demonstrated that the higher the score for factor 1 on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, the lower the heart rate variation and anxiety level. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that psychopathic murderers do not present variation in emotional response to different visual stimuli. Although the non-psychopathic murderers had committed the same type of crime as the psychopathic murderers, the former tended to respond with a higher level of anxiety and heart rate variation.Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria2009-09-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462009000300006Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry v.31 n.3 2009reponame:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (São Paulo. 1999. Online)instname:Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)instacron:ABP10.1590/S1516-44462009000300006info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSerafim,Antonio de PáduaBarros,Daniel Martins deValim,AndréGorenstein,Clariceeng2010-03-09T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1516-44462009000300006Revistahttp://www.bjp.org.br/ahead_of_print.asphttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||rbp@abpbrasil.org.br1809-452X1516-4446opendoar:2010-03-09T00:00Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (São Paulo. 1999. Online) - Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
title Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
spellingShingle Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
Serafim,Antonio de Pádua
Multiple personality disorder
Heart rate
Anxiety
Murder
Violence
title_short Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
title_full Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
title_fullStr Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
title_full_unstemmed Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
title_sort Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers
author Serafim,Antonio de Pádua
author_facet Serafim,Antonio de Pádua
Barros,Daniel Martins de
Valim,André
Gorenstein,Clarice
author_role author
author2 Barros,Daniel Martins de
Valim,André
Gorenstein,Clarice
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Serafim,Antonio de Pádua
Barros,Daniel Martins de
Valim,André
Gorenstein,Clarice
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Multiple personality disorder
Heart rate
Anxiety
Murder
Violence
topic Multiple personality disorder
Heart rate
Anxiety
Murder
Violence
description OBJECTIVE: To compare the emotional response and level of anxiety of psychopathic murderers, non-psychopathic murderers, and nonpsychopathic non-criminals. METHOD: 110 male individuals aged over 18 years were divided into three groups: psychopathic murderers (n = 38); non-psychopathic murderers (n = 37) serving sentences for murder convictions in Maximum Security Prisons in the State of Sao Paulo; and non-criminal, non-psychopathic individuals (n = 35) according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. The emotional response of subjects was assessed by heart rate variation and anxiety level (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) after viewing standardized pictures depicting pleasant, unpleasant and neutral content from the International Affective Picture System. RESULTS: Psychopathic murderers presented lower anxiety levels and smaller heart rate variations when exposed to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli than nonpsychopathic murderers or non-psychopathic non-criminals. The results also demonstrated that the higher the score for factor 1 on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, the lower the heart rate variation and anxiety level. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that psychopathic murderers do not present variation in emotional response to different visual stimuli. Although the non-psychopathic murderers had committed the same type of crime as the psychopathic murderers, the former tended to respond with a higher level of anxiety and heart rate variation.
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