Decoding of Facial Affect in Schizophrenia
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 56 (2) , 651-652
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1985.56.2.651
Abstract
12 schizophrenics and 12 nonpatient controls were asked to classify 8 photographs depicting 6 facial emotions each into categories of similar emotions and to pronounce the name of the emotion expressed in each photograph when multiple-choice alternatives were prompted. Patients had considerably more difficulty on the latter task than the former while controls were unaffected. Fearful faces were poorly recognized by both groups. Overall, controls were significantly better than schizophrenics in identifying all facial emotions.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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