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Facial emotion discrimination: II. Behavioral findings in depression

Psychiatry Research · 1992 · Vol. 42(3) · pp. 241–251

Ruben C. Gur✉(University of Pennsylvania)Ruben C. Gur(University of Pennsylvania)Roland J. Erwin(Orano (United States))Raquel E. Gur✉(Thomas Jefferson University)Raquel E. Gur(University of Pennsylvania)Alexander S. Zwil(Thomas Jefferson University)Carolyn Heimberg(Orano (United States))Helena C. Kraemer(Stanford University)

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Abstract

The facial discrimination tasks described in part I (Erwin et al., 1992) were administered to a sample of 14 patients with depression and 14 normal controls matched for sex (12 women, 2 men) and balanced for age and sociodemographic characteristics. Patients performed more poorly on measures of sensitivity for happy discrimination and specificity for sad discrimination, and had a higher negative bias across tasks. Severity of negative affect was correlated with poorer performance for patients. The results suggest that depression is associated with an impaired ability to recognize facial displays of emotion.

Face Recognition and Perception Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Body Image and Dysmorphia StudiesDepression (economics)PsychologyFacial expressionAffect (linguistics)Clinical psychologyAudiologyMedicineCommunication

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AdultAgedAttentionBipolar DisorderBrain MappingDepressive DisorderDiscrimination LearningEmotionsFacial ExpressionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPattern Recognition, VisualPersonality Assessment

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