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Schizophrenia and the Perception of Emotions

How Accurately do Schizophrenics Judge the Emotional States of Others?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Philip Cramer ,
Martin Weegman  and
Mike O'Neill
Philip Cramer
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6
Martin Weegman
Affiliation:
St Bernard's Hospital
Mike O'Neill
Affiliation:
St Bernard's Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3EU
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Abstract

Audiovisual tapes of emotional situations were shown to 34 schizophrenics and 15 controls who were asked to rate the emotional content of the scenes using an adjective check-list. The schizophrenic patients failed to detect the dominant character of the scenes, and perceived the opposite emotions to those perceived by the controls. Such deviant responses were not related to paranoid symptoms, flattened affect, formal thought disorder, general level of morbidity, or duration of in-patient stay.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 2 , August 1989 , pp. 225 - 228
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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