James Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3966990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institutes of Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6377-2361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking and remaking “the social”: Co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring how students at a university in the southern USA conceptualize, theorize, and attempt to influence the role ‘social factors’ play in mental illness and well-being. Drawing on models of research co-production and principles of critical pedagogy, a group of 10 university students (‘student researchers’) worked with a faculty member to develop and conduct the study. The results highligh…
Research Audit on Clinical Utility of Dimensional Disruptive Mood and Behavior Psychopathologies in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice
To investigate the utility of dimensional psychopathologies of disruptive mood and behavior disorders (DBDs) by applying latent profile analysis (LPA) for characterization of youth referred to the tertiary outpatient clinic of child and adolescent psychiatry clinic and pharmacological treatment choices. One hundred fifty-eight children and adolescents with significant DBDs symptoms participated. Core dimensional psychopathologies of DBDs (irritab…
Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorder Symptom Severity, Conduct Disorder, and Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impairment in Expression Recognition
Background: Alcohol and cannabis are commonly used by adolescents in the United States. Both alcohol use disorder (AUD) and cannabis use disorder (CUD) have been associated with reduced emotion expression recognition ability. However, this work has primarily occurred in adults and has not considered neuro-cognitive risk factors associated with conduct problems that commonly co-occur with, and precede, substance use. Yet, conduct problems are also…
Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relationship Between Irritability and Threatening Responding
Background: Irritability and callous-unemotional (CU; reduced guilt/empathy) traits vary dimensionally in the typically developing population but may be particularly marked in youth with conduct disorder (CD). While these dimensional traits are positively correlated, they have been associated with divergent forms of dysfunction, particularly with respect to threat processing (i.e., irritability with increased, and CU traits with decreased, threat…
Sexual Abuse in Adolescents Is Associated With Atypically Increased Responsiveness Within Regions Implicated in Self-Referential and Emotional Processing to Approaching Animate Threats
Childhood sexual abuse is associated with significant subsequent pathology and neuro-developmental disruption. In particular, childhood sexual abuse has been associated with heightened threat sensitivity. However, little work has directly investigated this issue. In this study we examine the association of childhood sexual abuse to neural and behavioral responses to looming, threatening face stimuli. The study involved 23 adolescents with signifi…
Cognitive and neural facets of dissociation in a traumatized population
Dissociative phenomena are frequently experienced by psychologically traumatized people. However, little is known about the cognitive profiles of highly dissociative traumatized individuals, and corresponding patterns of neural connectivity when attentional networks are engaged in the context of emotion. One hundred seventeen traumatized women completed the multiscale dissociation inventory (MDI) and neuropsychological testing; MDI scores were us…
Psychopathy
Reactive aggression and functional, not neural, specificity
This article is an author response to Harenski and Kiehl's (2010) commentary on Blair (2010)
Psychopathy, frustration, and reactive aggression: The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Psychopathy is a developmental disorder marked by emotional hyporesponsiveness and an increased risk for instrumental and reactive aggression. The increased risk for reactive aggression is the focus of the current paper. It will be argued that the increased risk for reactive aggression does not relate to an increased sensitivity to threatening stimuli since psychopathy is associated with a reduced sensitivity to threat. Instead, it is argued that…
Heightened sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion in borderline personality disorder
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been hypothesized to exhibit significant problems associated with emotional sensitivity. The current study examined emotional sensitivity (i.e., low threshold for recognition of emotional stimuli) in BPD by comparing 20 individuals with BPD and 20 normal controls on their accuracy in identifying emotional expressions. Results demonstrated that, as facial expressions morphed from neutral …
Evidence for substantial genetic risk for psychopathy in 7‐year‐olds
Background: Individuals with early warning signs of life‐long psychopathy, callous‐unemotional traits (CU) and high levels of antisocial behaviour (AB) can be identified in childhood. We report here the first twin study of high levels of psychopathic tendencies in young children. Methods: At the end of the first school year, teachers provided ratings of CU and AB for 3687 twin pairs from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS). For the analyses …
Responding to the emotions of others: Dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations
A Selective Impairment in the Processing of Sad and Fearful Expressions in Children with Psychopathic Tendencies
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 6: Letters Nos. 2199–2664: Letters 2199-2664 (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)
A Republication
The Present State of Virginia, and the College
The Present State of Virginia and the College
The Present State of Virginia and the College. By Henry Hartwell, James Blair, and Edward Chilton. Williamsburg Restoration Historical Studies, No. 1. Edited by Hunter D. Farish Get access Thomas Perkins Abernethy Thomas Perkins Abernethy University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 27, Issue 3, December 1940, Page 501, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896135 Published…
The Statutes of the College of William and Mary, Codified in 1736
Psychopathy, frustration, and reactive aggression: The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Psychopathy is a developmental disorder marked by emotional hyporesponsiveness and an increased risk for instrumental and reactive aggression. The increased risk for reactive aggression is the focus of the current paper. It will be argued that the increased risk for reactive aggression does not relate to an increased sensitivity to threatening stimuli since psychopathy is associated with a reduced sensitivity to threat. Instead, it is argued that…
The Statutes of the College of William and Mary, Codified in 1736
The Present State of Virginia and the College
The Present State of Virginia and the College. By Henry Hartwell, James Blair, and Edward Chilton. Williamsburg Restoration Historical Studies, No. 1. Edited by Hunter D. Farish Get access Thomas Perkins Abernethy Thomas Perkins Abernethy University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 27, Issue 3, December 1940, Page 501, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896135 Published…
The Present State of Virginia, and the College
A Republication
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 6: Letters Nos. 2199–2664: Letters 2199-2664 (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)
A Selective Impairment in the Processing of Sad and Fearful Expressions in Children with Psychopathic Tendencies
Evidence for substantial genetic risk for psychopathy in 7‐year‐olds
Background: Individuals with early warning signs of life‐long psychopathy, callous‐unemotional traits (CU) and high levels of antisocial behaviour (AB) can be identified in childhood. We report here the first twin study of high levels of psychopathic tendencies in young children. Methods: At the end of the first school year, teachers provided ratings of CU and AB for 3687 twin pairs from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS). For the analyses …
Responding to the emotions of others: Dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations
Heightened sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion in borderline personality disorder
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been hypothesized to exhibit significant problems associated with emotional sensitivity. The current study examined emotional sensitivity (i.e., low threshold for recognition of emotional stimuli) in BPD by comparing 20 individuals with BPD and 20 normal controls on their accuracy in identifying emotional expressions. Results demonstrated that, as facial expressions morphed from neutral …
Reactive aggression and functional, not neural, specificity
This article is an author response to Harenski and Kiehl's (2010) commentary on Blair (2010)
Psychopathy, frustration, and reactive aggression: The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Psychopathy is a developmental disorder marked by emotional hyporesponsiveness and an increased risk for instrumental and reactive aggression. The increased risk for reactive aggression is the focus of the current paper. It will be argued that the increased risk for reactive aggression does not relate to an increased sensitivity to threatening stimuli since psychopathy is associated with a reduced sensitivity to threat. Instead, it is argued that…
Psychopathy
Cognitive and neural facets of dissociation in a traumatized population
Dissociative phenomena are frequently experienced by psychologically traumatized people. However, little is known about the cognitive profiles of highly dissociative traumatized individuals, and corresponding patterns of neural connectivity when attentional networks are engaged in the context of emotion. One hundred seventeen traumatized women completed the multiscale dissociation inventory (MDI) and neuropsychological testing; MDI scores were us…
Sexual Abuse in Adolescents Is Associated With Atypically Increased Responsiveness Within Regions Implicated in Self-Referential and Emotional Processing to Approaching Animate Threats
Childhood sexual abuse is associated with significant subsequent pathology and neuro-developmental disruption. In particular, childhood sexual abuse has been associated with heightened threat sensitivity. However, little work has directly investigated this issue. In this study we examine the association of childhood sexual abuse to neural and behavioral responses to looming, threatening face stimuli. The study involved 23 adolescents with signifi…
Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorder Symptom Severity, Conduct Disorder, and Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impairment in Expression Recognition
Background: Alcohol and cannabis are commonly used by adolescents in the United States. Both alcohol use disorder (AUD) and cannabis use disorder (CUD) have been associated with reduced emotion expression recognition ability. However, this work has primarily occurred in adults and has not considered neuro-cognitive risk factors associated with conduct problems that commonly co-occur with, and precede, substance use. Yet, conduct problems are also…
Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relationship Between Irritability and Threatening Responding
Background: Irritability and callous-unemotional (CU; reduced guilt/empathy) traits vary dimensionally in the typically developing population but may be particularly marked in youth with conduct disorder (CD). While these dimensional traits are positively correlated, they have been associated with divergent forms of dysfunction, particularly with respect to threat processing (i.e., irritability with increased, and CU traits with decreased, threat…
Research Audit on Clinical Utility of Dimensional Disruptive Mood and Behavior Psychopathologies in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice
To investigate the utility of dimensional psychopathologies of disruptive mood and behavior disorders (DBDs) by applying latent profile analysis (LPA) for characterization of youth referred to the tertiary outpatient clinic of child and adolescent psychiatry clinic and pharmacological treatment choices. One hundred fifty-eight children and adolescents with significant DBDs symptoms participated. Core dimensional psychopathologies of DBDs (irritab…
Rethinking and remaking “the social”: Co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring how students at a university in the southern USA conceptualize, theorize, and attempt to influence the role ‘social factors’ play in mental illness and well-being. Drawing on models of research co-production and principles of critical pedagogy, a group of 10 university students (‘student researchers’) worked with a faculty member to develop and conduct the study. The results highligh…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Personality (6 works)