Emotional stimuli are typically prioritized in competition for attention in healthy individuals. In contrast, there is evidence that individuals high in psychopathic traits fail to similarly prioritize emotional stimuli. With aberrant attention to emotional stimuli implicated in the development and maintenance of other psychopathologies, attentional insensitivity to emotional stimuli may also be important in the callous-unemotional responding seen in psychopathy. This study assessed emotional attention in association with psychopathic traits in a community sample (N = 121) using two commonly used emotional attention tasks-the dot probe and emotion-induced blindness tasks. Psychopathic personality traits were examined in association with two attention domains where emotional attention effects are reliably found: early perceptual competition and competition for spatial attention. Participants high in interpersonal-affective traits of psychopathy (boldness or meanness) exhibited emotional attention deficits in both domains when impulsive-antisocial traits were also high. These findings are discussed in the context of the inconsistent literature on attention to emotional stimuli in psychopathy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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难以捉摸的缺陷：精神病患者的人格特质和对情绪刺激的异常关注。

情绪刺激通常是健康个体在争夺注意力方面的优先事项。相反，有证据表明，精神病性状高的人不能同样优先考虑情绪刺激。由于对情绪刺激的异常关注与其他心理病理学的发展和维持有关，因此对情绪刺激的注意不敏感在精神病中看到的对性无情绪的反应中也可能很重要。这项研究使用两个常用的情感注意任务-点探针和情感诱发的失明任务，在社区样本（N = 121）中评估了与精神病性状相关的情感注意。与两个注意域相关联地检查了精神病患者的人格特质，在两个领域中，可以可靠地发现情绪注意力的影响：早期的知觉竞争和空间注意竞争。在人际情感特征（大胆或卑鄙）方面表现较高的参与者在冲动-反社会特征也很高的情况下，在两个方面都表现出情绪注意缺陷。这些发现是在有关精神病患者对情绪刺激的关注的文献不一致的情况下讨论的。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。