Recently we talked about the sociometrics of adolescent peer group relations and the different levels that the theory entailed. I recently found an article on a preliminary study done on antisocial behavior in adolescent girls. The study done by researchers at University of Cambridge was based around the idea of facial recognition, focusing on the difficulty of recognizing anger or disgust over the other four basic expressions (fear, surprise, happiness and sadness). The results were pretty well summed up with this statement.
“The study also shows that although girls and boys with severe antisocial behavior have the same problems recognizing emotions, the girls - whose problems began when they were teenagers - more closely resembled boys whose antisocial behavior began in childhood.”
There will be a follow up study that will focus on brain imaging to expand the research on the antisocial behavioral differences between adolescent boys and girls.
Source: http://www.physorg.com/news192377654.html
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It makes sense in how a antisocial teen would find difficulty in trying to do emotional recognition, but I don't think that includes all antisocial teens. I would think that some teens would actually still be able to observe and be able to recognize emotions and notice the surroundings around them. That is how most babies learned about emotional recognition by studying and observing the faces of the caretaker and the people that surrounded the baby
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