Posted by SLS on March 31, 2013, at 23:28:55
In reply to Re: I have a weird theory, posted by poser938 on March 31, 2013, at 19:10:29
Empirical evidence often trumps theory.
- Scott
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http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0015058Abstract
Background
Recognition of others' emotions is an important aspect of interpersonal communication. In major depression, a significant emotion recognition impairment has been reported. It remains unclear whether the ability to recognize emotion from facial expressions is also impaired in anxiety disorders. There is a need to review and integrate the published literature on emotional expression recognition in anxiety disorders and major depression.
Methodology/Principal FindingsA detailed literature search was used to identify studies on explicit emotion recognition in patients with anxiety disorders and major depression compared to healthy participants. Eighteen studies provided sufficient information to be included. The differences on emotion recognition impairment between patients and controls (Cohen's d) with corresponding confidence intervals were computed for each study. Over all studies, adults with anxiety disorders had a significant impairment in emotion recognition (d = −0.35). In children with anxiety disorders no significant impairment of emotion recognition was found (d = −0.03). Major depression was associated with an even larger impairment in recognition of facial expressions of emotion (d = −0.58).
Conclusions/Significance
Results from the current analysis support the hypothesis that adults with anxiety disorders or major depression both have a deficit in recognizing facial expression of emotions, and that this deficit is more pronounced in major depression than in anxiety.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18226491J Anxiety Disord. 2008 Oct;22(7):1120-7. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.11.010. Epub 2007 Dec 3.
The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions.
Cooper RM, Rowe AC, Penton-Voak IS.
SourceDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol, UK. robbie.cooper@bris.ac.uk
AbstractPrevious work has suggested that elevated levels of trait anxiety are associated with an increased ability to accurately recognize the facial expression of fear. However, to date, recognition has only been assessed after viewing periods of 10s, despite the fact that the process of emotion recognition from faces typically takes a fraction of this time. The current study required participants with either high or low levels of non-clinical trait anxiety to make speeded emotional classification judgments to a series of facial expressions drawn from seven emotional categories. Following previous work it was predicted that recognition of fearful facial expressions would be more accurate in the high-trait anxious group compared with the low-trait anxious group. However, contrary to this prediction, no anxiety-related differences in emotion perception were observed across all seven emotions. This suggests that anxiety does not influence the perception of fear as has been previously proposed.
PMID:
18226491
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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