Not just fear and sadness: Meta-analytic evidence of pervasive emotion recognition deficits for facial and vocal expressions in psychopathy

► Meta-analysis of facial, vocal and postural emotion recognition in psychopathy. ► Emotion recognition impairments are cross-modal in psychopathy. ► There are impairments in recognizing positive as well as negative emotions. ► Results differ from previous findings of specific deficits for fear and sadness. ► Results are consistent with current views of amydalar functioning.