A body of research has examined how psychopathic personality traits may be related to the recognition of emotional facial expressions, and results have been mixed. The present study used a new set of naturalistic, non-posed photos of emotional facial expressions to examine the relationships between accuracy for facial emotion categorization and psychopathic traits in a sample of incarcerated men. In addition, intellectual functioning was measured and examined in relation to categorization accuracy. Results revealed that both psychopathic traits and intellectual functioning were predictive of accuracy for categorization of emotional expressions. After controlling for intellectual functioning, Factor 1 (interpersonal and affective psychopathic traits) were negatively related to the accurate recognition of confusion and fear as well as total accuracy, and Factor 2 psychopathic traits (lifestyle and antisocial traits) were positively related to the accurate recognition of anger, confusion, disgust, and fear, as well as total accuracy. Intellectual functioning was positively related to the accurate recognition of confusion, disgust, sadness, surprise, and fear, as well as total accuracy. Results suggest that the two commonly measured factors of psychopathy are differentially related to emotion recognition, and that intellectual functioning plays an important part in the recognition of facial expressions and should be considered in relation to psychopathic traits in future studies of emotion recognition.

一系列研究探讨了精神变态人格特征与情绪面部表情的识别之间的关系，结果好坏参半。本研究使用了一组新的自然主义、非摆姿势的情绪面部表情照片来检查面部情绪分类的准确性与被监禁男性样本中的精神病特征之间的关系。此外，还测量并检查了与分类准确性相关的智力功能。结果显示，精神病特征和智力功能都可以预测情绪表达分类的准确性。控制智力功能后，因子 1（人际和情感性精神病特征）与对困惑和恐惧的准确识别以及总体准确度呈负相关，因子 2 精神病特征（生活方式和反社会特征）与准确识别呈正相关。愤怒、困惑、厌恶和恐惧，以及完全的准确性。智力功能与对困惑、厌恶、悲伤、惊讶和恐惧的准确识别以及总体准确性呈正相关。结果表明，两个常见的精神病态因素与情绪识别存在不同的相关性，并且智力功能在面部表情的识别中发挥着重要作用，在未来的情绪识别研究中应将其与精神病态特征的关系考虑在内。