Empathy is a lay term that is becoming increasingly viewed as a unitary function within the
field of cognitive neuroscience. In this paper, a selective review of the empathy literature is …

Human emotional expressions serve a crucial communicatory role allowing the rapid
transmission of valence information from one individual to another. This paper will review …

Psychopathy is a disorder embedded in mystique, controversy and fantasy. Consistently
portrayed in the media and popular culture as unusual, inhumane and emotionless …

Despite children making up around a quarter of the population, the first edition of this book
was the first to focus on a public health approach to the health and sickness of children and …

The reality of our work is that many young people who use violence also experience
violence, and the emotional experience of both seem inextricably intertwined. We observe …

This chapter considers the role of emotions in young people's use of violence. It provides an
overview of evidence suggesting young people who use violence may experience …

The goal of this chapter is to consider social cognition in individuals with psychopathic
tendencies. As such, we will first consider the nature of psychopathy. Following this, we will …

This chapter considers neurobiological influences on threat/frustration-based reactive
aggressions and goal-directed instrumental aggression. Reactive aggression is mediated by …

Two broad classes of system regulate behavior: those that regulate behaivour in response to
affect-neutral task demands (classic executive functions) and those that regulate behaviour …

Chapter 1 introduced psychopathy and evaluated theories attempting to explain this
disorder. Experiment 1 assessed passive avoidance learning in children with psychopathic …