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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Salem, Jill E
• Kring, Ann M
• Kerr, Sandra L
• Strauss, Milton E

Titel

More Evidence for Generalized Poor Performance in Facial Emotion Perception in Schizophrenia

Ist Teil von

• Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), 1996-08, Vol.105 (3), p.480-483

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

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Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Previous studies showing that schizophrenic patients have a deficit in the ability to perceive facial expressions of emotion in others often have not used a differential deficit design and standardized measures of emotion perception. Using standardized and cross-validated measures in a differential deficit design, S. L. Kerr and J. M. Neale (1993) found no evidence for a deficit specific to emotion perception among unmedicated schizophrenic patients. The present study replicated and extended the findings of Kerr and Neale in a sample of medicated schizophrenic patients. Results showed that medicated patients performed more poorly than controls overall; however, they performed no worse on facial emotion perception tasks than on a matched control task. These findings support Kerr and Neale's conclusion that schizophrenic patients do not have a differential deficit in facial emotion perception ability. Future research should examine the nature of schizophrenic patients generalized poor performance on tests of facial emotion perception.