Adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) show deficits in recognizing facial expressions of emotion, but it is not known whether these difficulties extend to other social cues, such as emotional body postures. Moreover, in the absence of eye-tracking data, it is not known whether such deficits, if present, are due to a failure to attend to emotionally informative regions of the body. Male and female adolescents with CD and varying levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits (n = 45) and age- and sex-matched typically-developing controls (n = 51) categorized static and dynamic emotional body postures. The emotion categorization task was paired with eye-tracking methods to investigate relationships between fixation behavior and recognition performance. Having CD was associated with impaired recognition of static and dynamic body postures and atypical fixation behavior. Furthermore, males were less likely to fixate emotionally-informative regions of the body than females. While we found no effects of CU traits on body posture recognition, the effects of CU traits on fixation behavior varied according to CD status and sex, with CD males with lower levels of CU traits showing the most atypical fixation behavior. Critically, atypical fixation behavior did not explain the body posture recognition deficits observed in CD. Our findings suggest that CD-related impairments in recognition of body postures of emotion are not due to attentional issues. Training programmes designed to ameliorate the emotion recognition difficulties associated with CD may need to incorporate a body posture component.

患有行为障碍 (CD) 的青少年在识别情绪的面部表情方面表现出缺陷，但尚不清楚这些困难是否会扩展到其他社交线索，例如情绪化的身体姿势。此外，在缺乏眼动追踪数据的情况下，尚不清楚这种缺陷（如果存在）是否是由于未能注意身体的情绪信息区域。患有 CD 和不同程度的冷酷无情 (CU) 特征 ( n  = 45) 和年龄和性别匹配的典型发育对照 ( n = 51）分类静态和动态情绪身体姿势。情绪分类任务与眼动追踪方法相结合，以研究注视行为与识别性能之间的关系。患有 CD 与静态和动态身体姿势的识别受损以及非典型的注视行为有关。此外，与女性相比，男性不太可能关注身体的情绪信息区域。虽然我们发现 CU 特征对身体姿势识别没有影响，但 CU 特征对固视行为的影响因 CD 状态和性别而异，具有较低 CU 特征水平的 CD 男性表现出最非典型的固视行为。至关重要的是，非典型的注视行为并不能解释 CD 中观察到的身体姿势识别缺陷。我们的研究结果表明，与 CD 相关的情绪身体姿势识别障碍不是由于注意力问题。旨在改善与 CD 相关的情绪识别困难的训练计划可能需要包含身体姿势部分。