The relationship between expressed and experienced emotion in depression.
Sixty right-handed adult subjects, divided equally into three groups (mildly depressed, normal, and "low normal") on the basis of the Zung self-Rating Depression Scale, were exposed for forty seconds each to forty-eight imagery items designed to reflect happy, sad, angry, and fearful situations. Expressed emotion (facial electromyography) and experienced emotion (self-report) were measured. Results replicated and extended previous findings, suggesting both a "dissociation" between expressed and experienced happiness and an abnormal degree of "association" between expressed and experienced sadness for depressives and possibly "low normals."
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D004576:Electromyography; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D012650:Self Disclosure