bakergg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The Psychopath as Observer: Emotion and Attention in Picture
> Processing
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> Levenston,G. K., Patrick, C. J., Bradley, M. M., Lang, P. J., (200).
> The psychopath as observer: Emotion and attention in picture
> processing. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109(3), 373-385.
>
> Does anyone know the blink rate of psychopaths and non-psychopaths? In
> the famous research by Patrick et all showed that Psychopaths have low
> startle reflex for neutral, *****c and threat pictures. The controls
> had inhibition for *****c and increase for threat. I was thinking that
> maybe the psychopaths had an overall flat emotion. For them all these
> pictures were just ‘neutral’ and hence a startle reflex that is
> ‘inhibited’ because it is related to attentional processing (controls
> had inhibition for *****c pictures for pictures worth attention). What
> is the blink rate for psychopaths and non-psychopaths without viewing
> any pictures? If they are same then these differences in startle
> reflex for psychopaths can be attributed to something else (that is
> paying attention to pictures without getting any emotional rise).
So what you are saying is that you can detect witches
(err..."psychopaths")
with a simple blink test. Dr. Phil can stare into someone's eyes and
maybe
push some buttons on a magic machine until it beeps whether the subject is
a loyal goodthinker or a thought criminal.
Is there any sort of appeal process for those condemned by their eye
blinks?
Can you practice proper blinking or are the criteria you are judged by
kept
a secret for security reasons? Is it legal to wear mirrored gl***** to
prevent Dr. Phil from seeing your eyes and administering the heretic test,
or is that considered cheating?
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"The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and
inquisitor,
studying with extraordinary minuteness of facial expressions, gestures,
and
tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock
therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is a chemist, physicist, or
biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are
relevant to the taking of life."
-- 1984
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