Recognition Accuracy and Response Bias to Happy and Sad Facial Expressions in Patients With Major Depression

Impaired facial expression recognition has been associated with features of major depression, which could underlie some of the difficulties in social interactions in these patients. Patients with major depressive disorder and age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers judged the emotion of 100 facia...

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Published in:Neuropsychology 2004-04, Vol.18 (2), p.212-218
Main Authors: Surguladze, Simon A, Young, Andrew W, Senior, Carl, Brébion, Gildas, Travis, Michael J, Phillips, Mary L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Attention
Biological and medical sciences
Depression
Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder, Major - psychology
Discrimination Learning
Emotions
Face Perception
Facial Expression
Facial Expressions
Female
Happiness
Human
Humans
Inpatient
Interpersonal Relations
Major Depression
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mood disorders
Outpatient
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Recognition (Learning)
Recognition (Psychology)
Reference Values
Response Bias
Sadness
Sensory Thresholds
Social Interaction
Statistics as Topic
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Summary:Impaired facial expression recognition has been associated with features of major depression, which could underlie some of the difficulties in social interactions in these patients. Patients with major depressive disorder and age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers judged the emotion of 100 facial stimuli displaying different intensities of sadness and happiness and neutral expressions presented for short (100 ms) and long (2,000 ms) durations. Compared with healthy volunteers, depressed patients demonstrated subtle impairments in discrimination accuracy and a predominant bias away from the identification as happy of mildly happy expressions. The authors suggest that, in depressed patients, the inability to accurately identify subtle changes in facial expression displayed by others in social situations may underlie the impaired interpersonal functioning.
ISSN:0894-4105
1931-1559
DOI:10.1037/0894-4105.18.2.212