Psychopathic traits predict startle habituation but not modulation in an emotional faces task》.pdf

Personality and Individual Differences 50 (2011) 712–716 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepage: www.else /locate/paid Psychopathic traits predict startle habituation but not modulation in an emotional faces task Nathaniel E. Anderson a,⇑, Li Wan a,b, Keith A. Young b,c, Matthew S. Stanford a a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97334, Waco, TX 76798, United States b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Texas AM Health Science Center, Temple, TX 76504, United States c Neuropsychiatry Research Program and VISN 17, Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, 2400 Memorial Dr, Waco, TX 76711, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The psychophysiological correlates of psychopathic traits in normal-range samples have been a topic of Received 16 August 2010 recent interest in studies of the biological basis of personality. It is well established that psychopaths Received in revised form 14 December 2010 demonstrate abnormal patterns of startle potentiation while viewing emotionally evocative pictures, Accepted 15 December 2010 but this effect has not been demonstrated using pictures of facial affect. Recent research has also indi- Available online 13 January 2011 cated that an individual’s rate of habituation to an acoustic startle probe may be a reliable correlate of