Impaired social cognition in violent offenders: perceptual deficit or cognitive bias?

Aggressive behavior is assumed to be associated with certain patterns of social information processing. While some theories link aggression to a tendency to interpret ambiguous stimuli as hostile (i.e., enhanced sensitivity to anger), others assume an insufficient ability to perceive emotional expre...

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Authors: Jusyte, Aiste (Author) ; Schönenberg, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
Year: 2017, Volume: 267, Issue: 3, Pages: 257-266
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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