title: Judgement of facial affect among depressives and schizophrenics.
abstract: Forty depressives, 48 schizophrenics and 105 non-patient controls were asked to judge the mutual similarities amongst six different facial affects depicted in photographs. Inter-stimulus distances suggest two dimensions of affect operative in controls: pleasantness-unpleasantness and arousal-non-arousal. Depressives' judgements correspond to the former dimension whilst schizophrenics' judgements correspond to the latter.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012938:Social Perception