Validity Test Of The 'Basic Emotional Misidentification Rate' As An Indicator Of Social Adaptation

Emotional recognition ability has a vital influence on the way of social interaction.The accuracy of emotion recognition is related to the pattern of behavioral regulation.This study first invited criminal offenders and college students as participants,and examined their emotional recognition ability of individual through emotion recognition test.Then,we categorized different types of criminals with distinct criminal behavioral patterns by analyzing the details of their cases.The validity of ‘Basic Emotional Misrecognition Ratio(BEMR)',as ecological indicator,is tested.The results showed that the BEMR of college students without antisocial behavioral patterns is significantly lower than that of all types of criminals.From the ‘Identity Awareness' dimension of the criminal behavior patterns,fraudsters and thieves with significantly lower BEMR tended to not to commit crimes when the victim was not in the same physical space with them.In other words,face-to-face fraud or burglary was acceptable for offenders with significantly higher BEMR.From the ‘Deliberateness' of the criminal behavior path,the reactive injury offenders with significantly higher BEMR tended to directly face the conflicts and commit immediate violent responses,instead of conducting proactive injuries with prior motivation and plan.From the ‘Criminal Target' dimension,the tendency analysis results showed that offenders with higher BEMR tend to commit crimes out of the chase of private possessions.This study elaborated how individuals adhere to specific behavioral patterns according to their own emotion recognition abilities.Also,we firstly examined ‘Identity Awareness' and the ‘Criminal Target' dimension with regard to the emotion recognition abilities.