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Patterns of Emotion Attribution are Affected in Patients with Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2015

María Verónica Romero-Ferreiro ,
Luis Aguado ,
Javier Rodriguez-Torresano ,
Tomás Palomo  and
Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez
María Verónica Romero-Ferreiro*
Affiliation:
Universidad Complutense (Spain)
Luis Aguado
Affiliation:
Universidad Complutense (Spain)
Javier Rodriguez-Torresano
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM) (Spain)
Tomás Palomo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de octubre (i+12), Madrid/CIBERSAM (Spain)
Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de octubre (i+12), Madrid/CIBERSAM (Spain)
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*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to María Verónica Romero-Ferreiro. Departamento de Psicología Básica I (Procesos Básicos) Campus de Somosaguas. 28223. Pozuelo De Alarcón (Spain). Phone: +34–916943161. Fax: +34–913943189. E-mail: mvromero@ucm.es
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Abstract

Deficits in facial affect recognition have been repeatedly reported in schizophrenia patients. The hypothesis that this deficit is caused by poorly differentiated cognitive representation of facial expressions was tested in this study. To this end, performance of patients with schizophrenia and controls was compared in a new emotion-rating task. This novel approach allowed the participants to rate each facial expression at different times in terms of different emotion labels. Results revealed that patients tended to give higher ratings to emotion labels that did not correspond to the portrayed emotion, especially in the case of negative facial expressions (p < .001, η2 = .131). Although patients and controls gave similar ratings when the emotion label matched with the facial expression, patients gave higher ratings on trials with "incorrect" emotion labels (ps < .05). Comparison of patients and controls in a summary index of expressive ambiguity showed that patients perceived angry, fearful and happy faces as more emotionally ambiguous than did the controls (p < .001, η2 = .135). These results are consistent with the idea that the cognitive representation of emotional expressions in schizophrenia is characterized by less clear boundaries and a less close correspondence between facial configurations and emotional states.

Keywords

emotionfacial expressionschizophreniasocial cognition
Type
Research Article
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 18 , 2015 , E59
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2015 

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