Shame and Guilt Situational Identification in Subclinical Primary Psychopaths

There is much evidence that primary psychopathy is related to a deficit in emotion processing. The question remains, however, as to whether a deficit in self-conscious emotions hinders the ability to infer expected self-conscious emotions in others. Relying on an indirect testing of emotion attribution, we explored the possibility that primary psychopathy would predict difficulty in distinguishing between shame and guilt. Results showed that...