Domestically violent men: Cognitive processing patterns in response to social interactions

This study examined whether involvement in general criminal behavior was a useful marker of critical historic, psychological, and cognitive aspects of heterogeneity in domestically violent men. Two subgroups of domestically violent men, those with ( n = 56) and without ( n = 54) a history of criminal involvement, were compared with a group of nonviolent men ( n = 82) on internalizing psychopathology, substance abuse, maltreatment in the family of origin, cognitive and executive functioning, and psychophysiological factors. Results found that domestically violent criminal men scored higher than the other two groups on a number of measures including history of childhood violence exposure, childhood externalizing behavior, and adult internalizing psychopathology. No differences were found on their psychophysiological reactivity and cognitive performance. The domestically violent noncriminal group and the comparison group were largely similar on study variables with the exception of education and substance use. Results suggest that general theories of antisocial behavior may be relevant and helpful for understanding domestically violent and criminally involved batterers, whereas social and family violence theories may be of greater relevance to noncriminally involved batterers. Implications of these results for intervention are considered.

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Men Who Use Violence: Intimate Violence Versus Non-Intimate Violence Profiles

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/vivi.2003.18.3.259 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 259-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

David M. Lawson ◽

Deborah Weber ◽

Helen Minnette Beckner ◽

Lori Robinson ◽

Neal Marsh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Family Of Origin ◽

The Other ◽

Intimate Violence ◽

Tripartite Model ◽

Normal Limits ◽

Domestically Violent ◽

Violent Men

The current study examined the differences between three types of violent men based on Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart’s (1994) tripartite typology and a group of non-intimate violent men. First, a cluster analysis was conducted on a sample of 91 domestically violent men, resulting in three clusters that approximated the tripartite model for psychopathology as measured by the MMPI-2, that is, non-pathological, borderline/dysphoric, and antisocial. Based on the violence variables (i.e., severity of violence, family-only violence, and exposure to family of origin violence) only severity of violence approximated what would be expected across the three clusters, that is, the less the psychopathology, the less severe the violence. The other two violence variables had approximate frequencies/percentages of occurrence that would be expected for individual typologies with some but not all three typologies. In comparing the three intimate violent typologies to the non-intimate violent group, the non-intimate and non-pathological groups were within normal limits and did not differ significantly on any of the MMPI-2 scales. These non-intimate and non-pathological groups differed significantly from the antisocial and borderline/dysphoric groups on all the scales that defined the psychopathology of these two groups. On the violence variables, the non-intimate groups reported significantly less severe violence than the borderline/dysphoric and antisocial groups.

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The Use of the Adult Attachment Scale with Domestically Violent Men

Journal of Family Violence ◽

10.1007/s10896-012-9466-9 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 27 (8) ◽

pp. 731-739 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Anthony F. Tasso ◽

Donalee Brown ◽

Robert Griffo ◽

Ketrin Saud Maxwell

Keyword(s):

Adult Attachment ◽

Domestically Violent ◽

Violent Men

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The mirror neuron system in social interactions and schizophrenia

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(11)73814-7 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S2) ◽

pp. 2111-2111

Author(s):

T. Kicher

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Cognitive Processing ◽

Mirror Neuron System ◽

Mirror Neuron ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Body Language ◽

Neuron System ◽

The Social

The term social cognition comprises of the perception and cognitive processing of stimuli of the social environment that is necessary to understand one's own behaviour and that of others. Social cognition is important for conscious and unconscious behaviour in social interactions and is composed of the recognition and interpretation of emotions in faces, body language and speech, reflection of one's own mental state and intentions as well as the realization of others’ intentions, thoughts and feelings. The mirror neuron system is involved in empathetic processes. Several aspects of the neural correlates of social interaction, embodiment and the mirror neuron system in schizophrenia and autism will be reported.

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Supplemental Material for Comparing Recidivism Rates Among Domestically Violent Men Enrolled in ACTV Versus Duluth/CBT

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ◽

10.1037/ccp0000649.supp ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Recidivism Rates ◽

Domestically Violent ◽

Violent Men

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Pragmatic Language Processing in the Adolescent Brain

10.1101/871343 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Salomi S. Asaridou ◽

Ö. Ece Demir-Lira ◽

Julia Uddén ◽

Susan Goldin-Meadow ◽

Steven L. Small

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Cognitive Processing ◽

Language Processing ◽

Language Comprehension ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Pragmatic Competence ◽

Pragmatic Language ◽

Typically Developing ◽

The Brain ◽

Preceding Question

Adolescence is a developmental period in which social interactions become increasingly important. Successful social interactions rely heavily on pragmatic competence, the appropriate use of language in different social contexts, a skill that is still developing in adolescence. In the present study, we used fMRI to characterize the brain networks underlying pragmatic language processing in typically developing adolescents. We used an indirect speech paradigm whereby participants were presented with question/answer dialogues in which the meaning of the answer had to be inferred from the context, in this case the preceding question. Participants were presented with three types of answers: (1) direct replies, i.e., simple answers to open-ended questions, (2) indirect informative replies, i.e., answers in which the speaker’s intention was to add more information to a yes/no question, and (3) indirect affective replies, i.e., answers in which the speaker’s intention was to express polite refusals, negative opinions or to save face in response to an emotionally charged question. We found that indirect affective replies elicited the strongest response in brain areas associated with language comprehension (superior temporal gyri), theory of mind (medial prefrontal cortex, temporo-parietal junction, and precuneus), and attention/working memory (inferior frontal gyri). The increased activation to indirect affective as opposed to indirect informative and direct replies potentially reflects the high salience of opinions and perspectives of others in adolescence. Our results add to previous findings on socio-cognitive processing in adolescents and extend them to pragmatic language comprehension.

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