Luis Moya Albiol
Universitat de València, Spain
Title: Hormonal profile in response to an emotion induction task in perpetrators of intimate partner violence
Biography
Biography: Luis Moya Albiol
Abstract
The current study investigates possible hormonal markers associated with criminogenic factors in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) perpetration. Empathy deficits have been proposed to be important for IPV perpetration and maintenance. Alterations understanding partner's thoughts and feelings might prone to IPV by promoting affective distress dealing with emotional conflicts. Notably, IPV perpetrators have shown a differential change in specific salivary hormones such as oxytocin (sOXT), testosterone (sT), and cortisol (sC), following empathic induction and social stress tasks in comparison with non-violent men. However, the influence of empathic deficits in above-mentioned hormones following an emotion-induction task in IPV perpetrators remains unclear.