Attributional and attentional bias in children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children who are frequently aggressive or lack empathy show various deficits in their social information processing. Several findings suggest that children with conduct problems (CP) show a tendency to interpret ambiguous situations as hostile (hostile attribution bias) and have difficulties to disengage from negative stimuli (attentional bias). The role that additional callous-unemotional traits (CU-traits) play in these biases is yet unclear. Investigating both attentional and attributional aspects of social information processing in children can help us to understand where anomalies in the processing pathway occur and whether the biases are associated with CP and CU-traits separately or in an interactive manner.

Methods

We compared three groups of children: (a)

SUBMITTER: Hartmann D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063755 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature