Schizophrenic patients' sensitivity to social cues: the role of abstraction

1 April 1993

journal article
research article
Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 150 (4) , 589-594
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.150.4.589

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Since individuals with schizophrenia often have difficulty with abstract tasks, they should have more problems recognizing abstract social cues (e.g., inferences regarding actors' affect...

Keywords

SOCIAL CUES
SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS
RECOGNITION
BEHAVIOR
AROUSAL
CONCRETE
TASKS