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Posed facial expressions of emotion in schizophrenia and depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Howard Berenbaum
Howard Berenbaum*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
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1 Address for correspondence; Dr Howard Berenbaum, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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Synopsis

The goals of the present study were to explore: (1) whether schizophrenics, depressives, and normals differ in their likelihood of expressing different emotions; and (2) whether the types of expressions subjects exhibit are associated with their level of reported depressive symptomatology. Subjects were asked to imagine: seeing, smelling, or tasting something disgusting; and having something wonderful happen to them. Subjects were asked to show the experimenter what their face would look like if these things happened. The groups differed in how frequently they exhibited anger or contempt in the first condition and happiness in the second condition. The depressives were most likely to exhibit anger/contempt and least likely to exhibit happiness. Using Beck Depression Inventory scores as dependent variables, there were significant interactions between diagnostic group and the type of facial expressions exhibited. The associations between facial expressions and BDI scores were in the opposite directions for depressives and schizophrenics.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , November 1992 , pp. 929 - 937
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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