Facial expression recognition in depressed subjects: the impact of intensity level and arousal dimension

• Published in: The journal of nervous and mental disease Vol. 197; no. 2; p. 98
• Main Authors: Csukly, Gábor, Czobor, Pál, Szily, Erika, Takács, Barnabás, Simon, Lajos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2009
• Subjects: Adult; Arousal; Attention; Discrimination (Psychology); Emotions; Facial Expression; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Middle Aged; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Personal Construct Theory; Reference Values
• ISSN: 1539-736X
• DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181923f82

The goal was to investigate whether patients with depression perform more poorly in overall emotion perception tasks compared with controls and whether this difference varies as a function of emotional intensity and arousal, with a perceptual bias toward high arousal emotions. Data were collected fr...