Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits in adolescence: Social cognitive and personality features
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Clinical Health and Educational Psych
Abstract
Adolescents at risk of developing psychopathy are focused on their own needs and have very little concern for other people's welfare. To date, very little research has focussed on the social cognitive and personality factors that might contribute to the severe conduct problems, atypical affiliation, and impoverished social relationships in these individuals. A number of experimental paradigms can be used to investigate neurocognitive correlates of atypical social relationships in children at risk of developing psychopathy, compared with their typically developing peers, as well as peers with conduct problems but lower levels of callous-unemotional traits (indicating lower risk of developing psychopathy). These include: tasks assessing the extent to which a person uses social information; tasks assessing willingness to make effort for oneself vs others; tasks assessing ability to model others' minds and how this relates to perspective taking; and development and validation of a new personality measure for use with adolescent populations as well as its relationship with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits in adolescence. Measures of psychiatric symptomatology, substance use and cognitive ability will be included for matching and covariate purposes
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Essi Viding (Primary Supervisor) | |
Anne Gaule (Student) |
Publications
Knoll LJ
(2020)
Neural correlates of social influence on risk perception during development.
in Social neuroscience
Description | Poster presentation SSSP conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presented poster at SSSP conference in USA. Presented preliminary data from my upgrade paper. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Produced newsletter about recent research for schools worked with in our lab group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Wrote newsletter summarising recent work in our research team to keep schools with whom currently we work or worked with in the past up to date about important lab events and research findings. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Talk to teachers at school in Kent |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | talk to 20 teachers about lab research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |