Schizophrenia and the perception of emotions. How accurately do schizophrenics judge the emotional states of others?
Audiovisual tapes of emotional situations were shown to 34 schizophrenics and 15 controls who were asked to rate the emotional content of the scenes using an adjective check-list. The schizophrenic patients failed to detect the dominant character of the scenes, and perceived the opposite emotions to those perceived by the controls. Such deviant responses were not related to paranoid symptoms, flattened affect, formal thought disorder, general level of morbidity, or duration of in-patient stay.
Cramer
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Academic Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross Hospital, London.
Weegmann
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O'Neil
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D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014741:Video Recording; D014796:Visual Perception