Facial reactions to emotional films in young children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits
2023 — Facial reactions in preschool conduct problems
Finding
Children with clinical conduct problems showed less congruent and more incongruent facial responses than typically developing children. CP+CU and CP-only groups did not significantly differ in facial reactions.
Why it matters
The study pushes emotion-processing work into preschool years while constraining a CU-specific interpretation of every affective abnormality.
Inference boundary
The result supports conduct-problem-wide atypicality in this task, not a unique CU mechanism.
