{"id":146103,"date":"2014-04-03T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=146103"},"modified":"2014-04-03T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:41:00","slug":"juvenile-offenders-can-tell-right-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/juvenile-offenders-can-tell-right-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile offenders can tell right from wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-146107\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias1.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias1.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias1-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias1-120x63.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Daniel Bueno<\/span>Juvenile offenders housed at \u201csocial-educative\u201d centers sometimes display indifference to the suffering of others and also ignore social rules, but they do know \u2013 or seem to know \u2013 how to tell the difference between right and wrong. A group of psychiatrists and psychologists in S\u00e3o Paulo reached this conclusion after 30 residents from the ages of 18 to 21 who lived at the Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Casa \u2013 a correctional facility for minors convicted of serious crimes \u2013 underwent psychological testing over the course of nearly one year to evaluate their degree of psychopathy and their ability to make moral judgments (<i>Frontiers in Psychiatry<\/i>, Nov. 2013). \u201cThese youngsters showed moral maturity and knew how to tell right from wrong,\u201d says Daniel Martins de Barros, a psychiatrist at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP). \u201cBut we cannot say whether this knowledge was theirs to start with, or if they were merely repeating what they had heard someone else say.\u201d These young people also took a test that measured the electrical activity of their skin and assessed their emotional response when exposed to pleasant images (like a father holding a baby in his lap), neutral images (a book on a table), or unpleasant images (mutilated people). A correlation was found between the degree of callousness detected in the psychological test and the emotional reaction assessed through the physiological test. The more that a participant\u2019s callousness and indifference resembled that of someone with a classic psychopathy profile, the less he or she felt the impact of disturbing images that had a negatively emotional content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juvenile offenders can tell right from wrong","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[258],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-146103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-psychiatry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}